I have been watching the Bottle Brush bushes closely in the past week in the hope that I would see the colourful red brushes emerging. There is nothing yet but I can see plenty of the knobbly cases that the flowers burst from. This is another dish on the Tui and Wax eyes’ menu and provides a colourful show in the garden.
Wax eye
There have been signs of abundant new growth on the three bushes but the cold spring and lack of sunshine has probably delayed the flowers appearance.
This time last year the” table” was well covered with Tui nectar of the bottle brush kind. See this post.
This year I am watching this space, and awaiting developments, as they say…..
Wouldn’t it be nice we the top of the world and the bottom of the world could just skip winter always! Yay for you SPRING!
Linda
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We humans would like to avoid winter that is for sure.
Good luck with your autumn harvesting.
I am watching this space with a keen eye.
So am I and the darling Tuis will be satiated once the brushes burst forth plus the fine dining they are still enjoying at the sugar water feeder. We have sunshine today (!!!!!) plus a good Wgtn gale so the warmth might bring forth the flowers….fingers crossed. I’m about to reply to your email before we go out to get some vegetables.
It is so windy here today that I lost track of my washing momentarily! It is on a rack; the rack was tied to a post and yet still the rack blew away, complete with washing. Haven’t had that happen before.
News reports indicate that is rough down your way yet again. I hope you keep your power supply and your washing, plus rack. We had a gust of almost 68kms here around 4pm……we have a weather station here in Whitby, Porirua, which keeps us updated on matters meterological.
Apparently the power supply was out in parts of Christchurch the other day because of an incident involving a black swan.
Crikey! I hope the swan survived.
Sadly no.
And I have just read on a news website that there is a nasty pong being smelt over Christchurch today! I doubt any pong would last here with this gale:-)
I doubt that too! Certainly haven’t smelt anything over my way.
Good. Who needs pongs.
Our bottle brushes are out now…
The birds will be enjoying them. They are colourful flowers.
they’ve been covered in happy honey bees…
Happy honey bees are very welcome.
The winds have disrupted things this year, haven’t they? It’s interesting to compare years and see that it really is different this year. Today in Auckland has been beautifully fine: such a surprise!
We finally had sunshine here today Juliet but the gales prevailed again. We have had such strong winds – up to 140kms in very exposed places.