Interesting, thanks Hola.

We had similar weather about five weeks ago, the weather pattern has gone crazy, the Chinese Tallow tree just lost its leaves and ten days later it is starting to flower its leaves.  Now it has been raining cats and dogs, the more plants are confused.

Thanks what I want to know too Plan B.

Depending on the amount of the weed and where it is you can put boiling water over the weed.

Thanks, Celia -- trouble is with my sized yard and area the water would be cold and also gone b4 I got anywhere near my garden -- I have done the boiling water thing on my front path from my front door but that's about as far as it would last  I have tried   SLASHER  but that is not cheap and the weeds are back in a week

My driveway gets weeds down either side and it is 100 feet long so that's 200 feet and then the rest of my yard which is a double block area

I used to pull all the weeds then water and put newspaper all over and then mulch on top -- that stoped them for a good amount of time -- but I am unable to do such now

Have you tried salt PlanB. 

I occasionally spread a bag of pool salt over the pavers ... seems to work well.

Yes ok for the path but not good for the gardens -- it would kill every as salt in the soil is deadly.

Yep, I know PlanB ... my pavers/gravel areas don't flow into any nearby garden areas so it is quite effective for me.

I have the same issue now with weeds, I just go out for pulling them for 30 minutes then come back inside and lay on the bed!  LOL

I am finding the older the weed before it seeds is the easiest to pull out!

Boiling water from your kettle. Or I think vinegar works too. Search the internet for recipes.

Some weeds you can eat ,weeds only grow where there is nothing else or to repair the ground, so fill it the spot with something else.

I did a lot of weeding last couple of days, mainly pulled out grass.

Lovey RnR and they smell so lovely --

Your yours flowering already RnR?  Mine are only just dropping their leaves!  

Does Queensland have a longer flowering time?

Our plants are flying due north and get a lot of sunshine even now in Perth with all the rain and cold wind.

LOL Celia ... my post said

some frangipanis from my garden last year to brighten the day ...

I always imagined Queensland would be ahead of us down here near Perth RnR.

When we drive up to Kalbarri and further north it always seems to be in flower!

I only started to plant one about six years ago from the Orchid Nursery the mother plant was about 7m tall!  I have made other plants from it and they grow like triffids too.  Their flower is like a Fruit Salad.

I have a pinkish one too celia, but sadly it doesn't have any fragrance.

I love the Frangapani flowers. Mine is still losing it's leaves. It seems to be very slow developing flowers. Sometimes after Christmas. Mine is a lovely Pink one and as you said RnR it doesn't have any perfume.  I had one at my old house which was Apricot and smelt like Passionfruit. I only wish I had taken a cutting before moving on. 

My all time favourite flowers, i can smell them from here lol

The Fruit salad flowers are really strong in their fragrance.

I had about 4 different colors but the white ones were the only ones that had a smell -- sadly those have died because where they were was now not getting enough sun

Celia -- I worry about the pellets -- ( don't get bothered with snails here as I have the blue tongues and they eat them)  -- try the beer and then when the birds eat them they will not be poisoned by the pellets

See here

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=how+do+you+kill+snails+with+beer

Yes I worried about the pellets also, but I have indoor cats, so the two tom cats that annoy them and us can just run away if they don't like the pellets.   I am fed up feeding the snails with my seedlings, however, by the time I poor water over the pellets, after the snails have munched on the pellets there are not much left of them, I keep an eye on both the flowers and the snails, I was surprised yesterday how many dead snails I had left.  We were meant to have had a heavy downpour of rain but it never happened.

We don't have any lizards in this area.

Celia,  But it is the birds that eat the snails that have eaten the pellets and that kills the birds as well that why the beer is good no harm is done

I always worry about the poisions that are put around,  as if a native critter eats the poisoned one it also dies and we have to protect our wildlife --it is fast becoming endangered

Here is an interesting article about snail pellets:

https://www.gardenmyths.com/slug-bait-metaldehyde-iron-phosphate

Yes Incognito all these chemicals are so dangerous to the wildlife -- that includes birds and insects as well -- and also humans if it gets in the soil you grow food in -- always better to use a natural thing -- and they say beer is good and it will not harm the wildlife

Farmers also use such awful things such as round up and it is killing their soils now

Some people don't seem to give a darn about the wildlife --sadly

Roundup should be banned, I cannot believe they sell it in supermarkets where food is sold! There was a petition awhile back for Bunnings, Woolworths and Coles to ban it but looks like nothing evenuated. Trouble is once it is banned Monsanto/Bayer have already got another possilby more deadly chemical ready. GMO's are also a worry. Nature has been going along nicely for thousands of years until man started interferring for the benefit of faster, bigger and so called better crops to make more profits faster. 

Lets get back to basics and grow natural non-hybrid foods.

Look forward to your contribution Incognito. 

Thanks Celia, I am more of a veggie and herb gardener, but love to learn more about natives and eating weeds. I like to eat dandelion flowers and nasturtium leaves and flowers.

Incognito -  A neighbour of ours used to eat Dandelion weeds from the garden, he said the leaves

were good for people with Diabetes. I have seen Dandelion Coffee in the supermarket, I suppose

it's the same thing. 

The coffee is made from the rhizome and is a directic, fresh leaves are very high in nutrients. I have read a couple of books recently about weeds, even my mum said they ate dandelion leaves in Europe.

Maybe take a photo and post it --

Just looked it up, Heuchera and it reminds me of a Rex Begonia!

https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-grow-heuchera-organically-2539532

Nice display 

Wow - That is absolutely stunning, I've never seen an Azalea which is multi coloured.  ?

Lucky you RnR to enjoy such beauty, must be in the right spot and getting all it needs. Thanks for sharing.

Hola ... the flowers start out deep pink and then fade to nearly white very quickly.

What a wonderful show of colour RnR the bush is spectacular.   

Lovey RnR you must have a  'Sport' as it has different colors on one plant I also have one like that -- my camellias are not out as yet but he Azalias are

LOL

That reminds me of the news about Harry planting for-get-me knots in rememberance of Diana, the only trouble is they were not 'forget-me-knots'!  LOL

What a 'Forget-me-knot' looks like!

The photo shows petunia!  LOL

I hope you are using Slasher and not that toxic Roundup Celia, I just pull my weeds out when the ground is damp.

I pull my weeds out when the soil is try which has been up to yesterday, it has been raining a lot over here today.  However, I was shouted yesterday afternoon about the pathing, and husband used the toxic weed killer, I kept away and I kept the cats away.    He is meant to keep away and protect himself.  But the weeds were getting bigger!

Slasher is an organic and effective weed killer. Yes saw that WA had a lot of rain, watch out for the snails and slugs which come out when it is wet.

I did lots of tree cutting last couple of days to try and get more light into my garden, sadly a branch fell on my newly discovered Maderense Gernanium plant, seems okay but not looking quite as perky.

Oh dear poor Maderense Geranium!  Can you give them a diluted Thrive to help it? 

Do you have a flower of this Geranium Incognito?

Yes these plants do love their sunshine, makes such a big different, if I have flowers on the alfresco I have to keep changing them from the different location by the water tank otherwise they will die.  

Especially the pansies.      

People have tried to petition Woolworths, Coles and Bunnings to ban the sale of Roundup, but it is still in the shops, why I ask are they allowed to sell a cancer causing agent, a poison that is dangerous?

It has already been proven to have cancer causing agents, but so do many other things that are still sold. I think it all adds up and accumulates in humans and is definately contributing to the world wide increase in cancers.

Bunnings are still selling Roundup, I saw a whole shelf of them at the local store today.

That is not a photo of my plant, but taken off the internet site I got the info from. Hopefully I can get lots of seedlings pop up and I can share the plant.

Sadly it will die soon from what I read above.

Looks spectacular ... enjoy it while you can and good luck with propagation.

Thanks RnR.

That is pretty!

So lovely, reminds me how Harriet the Galapagos tortoise favourite food was Hibiscus flowers. Will the possums eat flowers, I wonder.

That is something we don't have to worry about Possums here.   

Oh the Tortoise ate the hibiscus!  LOL  We don't have any of those either.

Thanks Celia, what a beautiful flower.

Thanks Incognito!

I have been very busy pulling out the self seeded flowers and weeds the last few days to let the Gerbra plants have some room!  I have been splitting them up too, put on blood and bone and water them with some Thrive and I am getting some strong healthy stems now with more big blooms.

I got them some years ago when I used to be an editor of a gardening club.