All is not doom and gloom in our drought-stricken garden for we have been blessed with several aloes blooming, of which this is one:
Then there are the lovely blooms of the Crassula ovata or, as many overseas readers know it, the Jade plant:
Both of these indigenous plants provide important sustenance for bees, butterflies, ants and other insects. I also have a minute patch of ground close to where I sit in the mornings in which I nurture petunias and pansies. These cannot be watered very often so are doing their best under trying circumstances to provide daily cheer:
They too attract an insect or two:
Something Over Tea 
Uplifting. You have done especially well with pansies and petunias in the circumstances
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I managed to water them this morning – they perk up very quickly 🙂
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Your garden is looking very beautiful, Anne!
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The highlights do 🙂 You cannot see the brown lawn, empty flower- and vegetable beds or the shrivelled leaves on the lemon tree. I like to have a small patch of colour and these pansies do create a cheerful vision.
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Do you save household water for your pansies and petunias? Such cheerful plants.
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Yes, I do 🙂
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I thought you must.
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What pretty blooms. That moth is a looker too.
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I think so too 🙂
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It must be nice to see some colour and life in your garden despite the drought. Those pansies are a cheery bunch 😊
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It is a battle to keep such flowers alive sans rain, yet worth the effort for that bit of cheer.
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You are doing well to have any colour in such dry conditions.
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Thank you, it is worth carting water for these beauties.
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Colourful beauties brightening a dry and dreary winter!
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They certainly do!
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blooming lovely
✨🙏🕉🌱🌿🌳🌻💚🕊☯🐉✨
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Thank you, Graham 🙂
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I am pretty sure I have seen that aloe at top on California’s Central Coast, and it is a fantastic plant in every sense of the word.
My own jade plant that I had for years must have been stressed most of that time, though it often was beautiful. It never bloomed and eventually was cut down by frost 😔
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Where would we be without the winter-flowering aloes? And the Crassula is lovely too. I can see why you nurture your patch of cheerful pansies.
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Amazing they grow despite the water woes.
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