Just curious about the "no watering." Does that mean with municipal watering? Or, does it include private wells too? After all, if it is an aquafer water supply, it would all come from the same water supply, just not treated water. Who out there has a private well for irrigation? We have an "irrigation meter" which is cheaper than the household water supply because the gallons we use for irrigation do not return in the sewer system. The charge for the sewer treatment is more than the charge for water. Mobile is lucky to have within its County the entire lake from which our water supply comes. Of course now they are trying to DEVELOP around it, and thinking of a big highway right through it, but hopefully common sense will prevail there. When I see how the water supply for the wild birds and small creatures is so important, it draws more of them to my gardn than a food supply does, I know it is a critical element in the future of a metropolitan area as well. Never take water for granted.

I missed your ammonia paragraph, Skybird, oops, shows I should read more carefully. Last week, my DD managed to kick a soccer ball into a bush with resident wasp nest and was stung when she retrieved the ball, ran into the greenhouse and slapped a paper towel with ammonia on it, and that was that. And for those who have fungus gnats in their houseplants/seedling starting stuff, that BT israelensis takes care of them very nicely. I order a 20 oz batch, and it lasts several years. When I start my seedlings, I sprinkle a couple of grains of the stuff in each cell, and no more fungus gnats. Here is a link that might be useful: link

More great photos. I used to have Zephyranthes but left them at my last place, they were hard to keep under control but are very pretty after the rain. Aggies always put on a great display, mine are just finishing so time for their heads to come off. Gerberas always put on a good display but mine don't seem to be doing as well at the moment, probably too much humidity. I bet the birds love the grevilleas and the rose is pretty too.

Billi is it usually very dry where you are in Australia? I wonder how your daylilies do , as that is the reason I got into daylilies myself 10 years ago . Where I am located I watch the storms go north of us one day and then south of us the next it seems. I grow in very difficult heavy clay soils so after many years of trying to fight the status quo here I decided to try daylilies as my ditch lilies did marvelously well while hundreds of dollars of other plants did not . In late July and in August you can sometimes find cracks in the ground large enough to lose your foot in it is so dry here . I was delighted to discover that daylilies dont seem to mind drought nor do they mind the heavy clay soil . The only one who does mind is me ( makes for some very hard work to dig up a big clump!) Signet