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Now we’re settling at Selby we’re starting to see a range of birdlife and some animal life here.  I’ve planted a lot of new roses and relocated two older ones from our old home.

In the first week we lived here I saw a bird I’d not seen before. The previous owners had left a couple of bird posters on the wall in the kitchen and I’ve found these invaluable for identifying birds. From that day I was on a mission to see this bird again – an Eastern Spinebill but it’s taken weeks before I was rewarded.

Late yesterday afternoon as I moved a potted azalea around to our front door I spied the bird in the grevillea by the front fence. I quickly went to get my camera and was thrilled to get several shots of the bird.  Here are just a couple.

Since my last post we have shifted to the country and now live on a 2 acre property. It has gardens but we’ll be adding to them and changing them over time.

It already had a few roses and I’ve put in several more since. This particular one, the Perfume Delight, lives up to its name and is in its second flowering since we shifted in 9 weeks ago.

It’s it gorgeous?  It smells just as beautiful too but I don’t have smellovision

My husband and I are shifting to the foot of the Dandenongs at the end of October and it’s made me look at what’s happening in that area.

This past year my passion for photography has been renewed and I’m always looking for photo opportunities so imagine my delight to discovered an Open Gardens Festival in the Dandenongs throughout October.

Thought you might like to go too!

http://www.inspiringinspring.com.au/open-gardens/

My husband and I are selling our home and shifting to a 2 acre property in the hills.  So these photos may well be the last from our current garden.  This is our front yard.

Our garden has had some clearing in the backyard – it was getting overgrown. Graham and I like it like that – natural looking but we’re planning on putting this house up for sale and moving to the country so others might not quite like it like that.

The front yard is getting a new injection of colour with Cyclamen, Pansies and other plants and I’ve taken a bit from here and put it there (ribbon plants, swedish ivy, and other ground covers) to fill a few bare patches.