Rain! Yaaaaaaaaaay!

Yay!  Hoooray!

Happy, happy!

Yesterday, the usual brilliant sunshine...

The usual preparations when rain is forecast--a few things brought under cover, the tubs, buckets, and barrels put out to collect rain water.  

 

More roses picked for yet another December bouquet, because the rain will turn rose blooms into sodden wads of mildew.  Better to pick them and enjoy indoors.  

I chopped back the Maireana sedifolia some weeks ago--the old bare woody branches are sprouting fresh new growth.  This plant is incredibly tough.  It gets no irrigation at all.  This rain will get those sprouts growing:

An Agave marmorata dug out before it got too big.  It was already pretty big.  Also heavy.  Also sprouting  several offsets.  I could not lift it over the wall so only dragged it out of the way, which gave me an idea:  where it sits now would be a fine spot for the new Aloe rubroviolacea waiting in a pot.  The Aloe has the same growth habit as the Agave--laying sideways along the slope.

That floppy Leucospermum, grown from seed, has its first flower buds.  We'll see how it looks in that area.  The Agave was mixed up with it so the Leuco took some damage.    The rain should pep it right up.

Blueish plants look lovely late in the afternoon in December.  Even prettier when rain is forecast for the following day. 

And the sweet peas really need to go into the ground.  The plan was to give some away at garden club meetings, but meetings are being missed, because Omicron.  Some of the seeds planted in the ground have come up, but a lot have not, and some have been eaten.  Earwigs, perhaps.  The lizards are fairly dormant in December and January. 

Beautiful, precious rain the rest of today.  Tomorrow, brilliant sunshine once more.   Today, let it pour!

Grevillea 'Masons Hybrid' aka 'Ned Kelly':