Tuesday 25 September 2012

Spring flowers.

This house sit has quite a few fruit trees, and with spring well established new growth is everywhere and the fruit trees are flowering.

On this piece of land there are two mango trees. I love mangoes so I hope the bats don't get them all. There is a smaller tree in flower. Mango flowers are quite unusual, and often many of the flowers will become fruit, but as the season progresses most of them fall off.
The larger tree is also covered with flowers. I think this fruits later than the smaller tree above.
The other trees are also doing well. Lemon, lime and orange trees have flowered. And around the pool is a grape vine that is growing well.

We have been told by the weather forecasters that we are in for a hot and dry summer this year. It's been a very dry spring so far, but we had a good storm a couple of days ago with about 14 or 16 mils of rain. The trees loved that. This area of Australia gets some severe thunder storms, right along the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, summer storms are regular occurrences.

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