Quilty364 circles and heart flowers 1st June 2016

I have all most completed sashiko quilting this wee wall hanging

Back of quilt

close up so you can see the bigger stitches I use for sashiko quilting, my circles are not so good from the back but over time hopefully it will improve LOL

close up of one corner

Love how the sashiko makes the circles pop out.

I unpicked the yellow embrodered flowers in the centre and replaced with solid yellow fabric, Im much happier with the end result, the embroidery looked messy to me.

What is it?????

A giant bush slug, its quiet amazing how big the shells get to. This is the first time I have seen one actually moving.  I could not hold the torch and camera and my self upside down at the same time to take a photo of the front of the snail LOL ???

Berries are dropping from a giant palm outside my kitchen window and fermenting faster than I can pick them up, there is a certain butterfly coming in and eating the nectar, some times there are dozens there. Anne Marieke if you zoom in just to the right of the water container you will see a butterfly LOL. 

Looking up to the palm head.

Here you can see the berries still not quiet ripe or that the rats, possums and bats have not eaten? There is a bunch of green ones behind the ripe ones.

A much smaller palm just flowering and covered in bees. These berries will be bright red when they finally grow.

May be this close up you can see the bees swarming around for the nectar. On the right is an old stem all that remands of  a bunch of berries.

Self grown bunch of heliconias.

3 young tree ferns they will reach up to 8 metres high or higher over 15 years.

New fern uncurling of the tree fern.

Hard to see but this is the fern almost completely uncurled then the side branches will uncurl too and grow in to fern leaves.

Driveway is full of fresh green colours after all the rain. I added two small urns to the new gate posts.

Even the smallest fruit and flowers are a treasure when you find them

Broms never fail to amaze me, there are 100s of different shaped and coloured flowers and all so exotic.

Close up Incredible colours put together.

Another Bom but this one throws what looks like berries instead of petal flowers.

These just pop up in the garden, my mum loved them and grew them inside in NZ when I was a child and now they just grow around me out side?

My red poinciana just starting to turn red.