Lock-down Day 414

If I remember correctly, I woke up even before the alarm went off and got up quite early - but that was so many hours ago, it feels like it's been days ...

I'm home now, and just took a photo-tour round my garden ...

My 2 meter Sunflower next to ...

It looks like mustard?

One lone bee is buzzing around my sunflower ... I didn't manage to capture the bee.

My succulents are adding some real colour, not just yellow ...

The one plant produces red flowers

The other plant flowers orange

My cabbage plant has produces plenty offspring,
surrounded by desert roses and another type of succulent - no clue what it's called

The Litchi trees are still growing nicely!

Mippies flop wherever I am - here they are, adding some shades to my Marigold bed
Look how many flowers there are!

One poppy flower

It looks like lots of little flowers inside the flower!

One Marigold all red, outlined in yellow

Looking at the individual Marigold flowers reminds me how Rose and I used to walk around doing the same - with Cosmos, Dianthus, etc. I miss Rose ...

Another Marigold, with bright yellow petals, with just a brush-stroke of red in the center
of each petal!

Mixing it up a little, reds and yellow spread randomly ...

Look at these beauties! Teeny tiny Spekboom flowers!

Aren't they stunning?

Remember my complaint that all flowers are just coming out yellow? I did NOT expect that from my tulips, though!

Seriously? YELLOW Tulips?

Lovely close-up of this Daffodil. Well, like the sunflowers, they don't have much choice,
yellow is their colour ...

I had thought of baking the apple pie this afternoon, but it was already past four when I finished my photo tour, so I decided to leave it for tomorrow ...

And started weeding. I tried the bed in front of my succulent bed, but the ground is rock hard. So then I thought it might be a good idea to tackle the bed next to my back lawn, in front of the outside room ... it looks really, really bad! I haven't touched the farthest part at all ... there's a thistle growing there, that's as tall as my sunflower! And the creepers are trying to envelope the outside room!

Okay, even I didn't think this bed could be THAT bad! Yikes! It was really bad! The aloes are practically rotten! And I mean rotten to the core! I had previously tried to alleviate their distress by removing dried leaves from them - but that didn't help, I'm afraid. Those poor plants are completely rotten. And once I started removing outer layers - it stinks! Really bad!

Well, there's a lot of space now in that bed - and I only worked in one place! The top of the aloes twisted off whole-sale, came off looking like an octopus - exposing the dark brown, rotting core ... and the rot beetles living inside!

Now it's dark, so I'm inside, mippies are treated and I've just shared my dinner ... now I should sit back and give mippies most of my attention, with a little attention for the episode I'm watching ...