September Action

I've never seen the forsythia flower so brilliantly. A blaze of bright yellow, 8 feet high and the same across, it has lit up the garden for the last 3 weeks. Spectacular. It's the one with the larger flower, that flowers after the smaller flowered type, and holds back longer shooting leaves. We first acquired it taking cuttings from a plant at 'Blossoms' old place in Emerald. Good old 'Bloss' knew her ecka.
And I don't think I've ever seen the camellias flower so abundantly. It really has been a wonderful spring show. The stachyurus and the magnolias were magnificent. The air is now filled with the scent of sweet pittosporum blossom and the buds on the dogwoods and lilacs are swelling. They're heavily budded and I anticipate another great show, one of the early white dogwoods is already showing.
I had a look at the bees on Saturday. They were doing well, good strong doubles full of bees and hatching brood, drones included. Given that drones take 24 days to hatch from the laying of the egg, the queens must have thought things were shaping up well during that burst of warm sunny weather in the second half of August. I put a third box on each to give them more room.
Yesterday I was busy cutting back the lemon and lime trees, and I cut out the grapefruit altogether. One fruit in all these years and nothing last year isn't good enough. I planted a group of 11 daphnes where they'll get morning sun and afternoon shade and mowed most of the grass.
As for the footy, next Saturday Geelong and Port Adelaide will slug it out for premierhip glory. It's all the talk. Geelong are strong favourites. Tonight it's Brownlow Medal night. Lib asked me to put $20 on Port's Chad Cornes which I did on the computer (I have an account with Lasseter's Sports and also Centrebet) at 7 to 1 so I'm hoping he wins.
Silvan beat Woori Yallock in the grand final of the local footy and I also notice the Wangaratta Magpies beat Nth. Albury, to take out it's first OM flag since 1976. I watched that game at the Wang showgrounds 31 years ago, when I lived there. Twinkle toed captain Des Steele danced his way up and down the ground at his ballerina best as they triumphed over arch rivals Wang Rovers.