Rain Rain beautiful Rain,the garden is smiling

These are our tree ferns after the heat wave

but do you see the green shoots

We have had 3 days solid of beautiful rain,torrential rain.

Another fern,another green shoot

My new David Austin Rose Teasing Georgia

Its smiling after the lovely rain

The veggie garden is smiling too

This once yellow capsicum turned bright red ,

so sweet 

The beans are so strange this year

They are climbing all over the arbours,but instead of beans

there are little red pea type flowers ?

This one has had some little sucking insects that I can't see 

sucking the life out of the leaves. The ones on the other arch have 

been left alone,but still no beans ?

Rocket springing up its little heads.

I've used my worm farm containers to plant seeds

as the worms all died in the heat :( even though I covered them and cooled them with water

One little carrot peeping through

can you see it?

Basil loved the heat and went mad everywhere

I made lots of Pesto

2 dwarf yellow beans showing through

Enjoy your weekend and hope you had a lovely Valentines Day

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xx jeanetteann

Looking back at the garden before the heat wave

It is so terribly hot at the moment and has been for far too long

The garden has suffered so much even with heaps of watering

So I thought I would post some pics of the before

Hopefully it will recover for us to enjoy once again.

The tree ferns are burnt to a cinder. We are hoping they will 

recover. We will have to cut them right back to the stem

I think in the winter we will replace them with roses

They seem to be the only ones to tolerate such high temperatures.

The roses are hanging in there and still look like these did before the heat

well out back anyway. The ones in the front garden are struggling 

How is your garden fairing in this heat wave?

I have enjoyed looking at my own photo's to remind me what the garden did look like

and will again I'm sure

Enjoy your week

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xx jeanetteann 

Roast tomato pasta for dinner

I picked a lovely big basket of tomatoes today

Then a neighbour came calling with some pretty yellow baby ones

So we swapped some of his for some of my large round ones.

I put cut them into halves and quarters and place them onto

a baking tray lined with baking paper

Sprinkled them with good olive oil

Tossed them about a bit

Tore up some freshly picked basil leaves and sprinkled them over

Added a few cloves of garlic unpeeled 

Placed them into a hot oven for about 40 Min's until lovely and fragrant

and soft.

Meanwhile into a pan of boiling salted water I placed some spinach 

tagliatelle 

All roasted

Toss them through the tagliatelle 

Served with a lovely fetta mixed salad

Tea to finish

Hope you enjoy your lovely long Australian Day weekend

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xx jeanetteann