Colour in the garden now that it has stopped raining Sept 9th 2015

I have Finally finished appliquéing the circle’s on to the background centre fabric of Sara Jeans quilt now to add the top blocks and finish machine appliquéing the sheep to the bottom panel.  Just have to find time LOL

Yesterday I trimmed the blue-work blocks to 10 1/2 “s then joined then adding the green borders and then attached them to the main part of the quilt this morning , finally the top part of Sara’s quilt  is complete.

Last night I sat and did herringbone stitch around each of the patches on one of the crazy patchwork blocks I find this very very relaxing, pulling coloured threads randomly and watching the blocks come a live.  Its like they are been framed and the fabric pops out in all its glory even if it is simple fabric.

Flowers from the Jade vine a local forest creeper

When you first  see theses flowers your mind finds it difficult to believe they are natural

Photo taken down at he beach this morning. These spiky plants take about 17 to 20 years to flower then they die, this one has flowered and is slowly dying, you can see a young plant may be 10 years old at the base of it; they love the harsh dry conditions, the ones behind are flowering and you can see their tall tall flower stalks, from a distance they look like tall bamboo.

When they do finally flower the flower stalk can reach up to  6 to 8 metres high this one is covered in baby plants and it is soooooo heavy it has fallen over with the weight of the baby plants 100s and 100s of them.

Here we have one of the little plants fallen to the ground and has every chance it will grow, bulb is about the size of a pingpong ball.

One of our local orchids, it has a heavenly smell and is growing in our garden.

Stunning colour

Miniature cymbidian orchid

Bromeliad.

Bromalaide