November in the garden - watching and waiting

Passionfruit flower - a work of art

While cutting 'dead heads' off the Flanders poppies out the front I noticed the mass of passionfruit flowers on the trellis. Gardening really is a 'wait and see' activity - in their own good time things will do what they need to do. A couple of years waiting and now there's the promise of passionfruit on their way. And the 'fruit salad' tree is laden with fruit - after only a couple of fruit for the last couple of years, it seems to have settled into its routine and now there are peaches, apricots, plums and nectarines all developing for summer picking. Oh, and the wait for the mandarin, lime and orange may also be realised this summer. We've had flowering before but now there are lots of fruit on the trees. Whoo hoo!