#makesmehappy — Public Fediverse posts

It is a #ViburnumTinus, the laurustinus, laurustine or laurestine… sounds akin to a mouthwash huh (Oz audience will understand!)??

They’re in early bloom and there were half a dozen healthy looking specimens growing in this front yard in #Mckinnon #Austrlia, so I expect these to be in full bloom in the next week or so.

Delicate, small and pretty looking flowers. Just gorgeous.

🙌💖

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HELP!!!

Anyone know what this is?

I wanted to say #GladiolusCommunis and exclaim ‘#HelloPossums!!’

But I had a sneaking suspicion it could be something totally different.

And so too does my ID app… in fact it suggests anything from #Lobelia, #Montbretia, #CannaLily - and yes of course… #Gladiolus!

Google image search wanted to tell me it’s a gladdy… but you know what.. I’m not so sure.

Whatever it is, ‘twas snapped on my sisters farm in #Centralvictoria a few weeks back… deep red and it is happy as Larry.

Oh what the heck, I’ll just say it;
#HelloPossums!!!!

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#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

A domestic #olivegrove consisting of a few hundred trees in #Centralvictoria #Australia… just after #dusk.

These will be ready to pick soon.

The trees will be subject to a machine that will ‘shake’ each of them one by one carefully (and with love!), so that the olives drop on a mat and scooped up into a hopper.

This machine is called a ‘shaker’, funny enough!

We’ve had many a year prior, with dozens of peeps from near and far coming to pick for a few hours over a weekend - and rewarded with a hearty spread, vino and cheer.

Loads of strangers turn up to participate.

Olives go off to a small processing plant nearby and come back as oil. Loads of rain last year which means a bumper crop this year.

This lot will yield between 1000 - 2000 litres this year I think…

Pretty cool!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #Bendigo #olives #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

It’s #AustraliaDay today!

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. It marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

It’s celebrated with a public holiday, family time, sausage in bread, meat pies, fun and recreation.

Some choose not not celebrate this day given the challenges associated with indigenous rights and the plight of equality for our aboriginal people throughout their lands.

Today from a visual hedonistic day, I’ll feature the #Australian iconic #wattletree. They grow to between 3 and 8 m (10 and 30 ft) in height. My childhood home had a massive one on the nature strip, I remember it fondly.

Each flowering bud is a ball-like structure that is covered by 40 to 100 small flowers that have five tiny petals and long stamens, which give the flower head a fluffy appearance.

These trees flower prolifically from mid year but tease us all year round with small flowering growths.

These 📷 pics are sourced from lawn.com.au to show what a full bloom looks like. They’re one of my favourite iconic #Australian tree… for obvious reasons!!

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#Melbournes #bottanicalgardens is host to this newly budding #wattle

This will be teeming with small yellow buds in a week or two.

One of my all time favourites, characteristically Australian and very iconic!

👋 from Melbourne, Australia.

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#olives (Olea europaea) are natives of the #mediterranean parts of #asia and #africa and have been in cultivation for thousands of years.

There is archeological evidence that indicate olives were grown in #crete as early as 3500 BC and olives are some of the oldest living trees in #europe with a few believed to be well over 1,000 years old.

These 500 or so #olivetrees on the farm produce well over 1000 litres of oil, after being picked and pressed nearby.

It’s a young #olivegrove; about 25 years old but has produced a bumper crop during most of those years. Draught however, impacts yield from year to year.

Fruit will start to appear in the coming weeks and harvest will be late March, through to April. There’s usually a large window of opportunity to pick olives in #centralvictoria #Australia. D#And it’s all dependent on weather and the development of fully ripened #olives 🫒

Picking has always been a festive event with people from near and far coming to participate. Once all the hard work is done, food, drink and merriment normally follows!

🙏💖

#olives #olivepicking #landscape #victoria #centralvic #Centralvictoria #Bendigo #rurallife #rural #farmlife #farm #urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #victoria #Australia #aesthetichedonist #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy