With the nights getting genuinely cold now, the vigor has left the lawns for another season. I have to say, it was nice doing my mowing run today and not having to fight the grass.
The fight ended being a broken sprinkler. I don't often break sprinklers, this one would have to be every bit of 20 years old and so was very brittle. I normally grab a set of multi-grips to extract the tube from the ground before inserting a new one. This one was so brittle it was just snapping with the slightest amount of pressure. I ended up having to make another lengthy trip back to the ute and get a shovel to dig it up. This sort of thing is why I hate doing irrigation repairs, one simple and small job just turns into a 10-15-30......min job.
At another job, another favorite Camellia was flowering.
Camellia Sasanqua 'Setsugekka' is a vigorous growing variety ideally suited to screens, topiaries and large filler shrubs, this particular specimen has been trained into a standard. If white is not your thing, 'Plantation Pink' and 'Hiryu' are both similarly vigorous varieties in light pink and cerise/red.
Plantation Pink -
Hiryu -
I love the subtle aroma of Sasanqua Camellia's, its a hard scent to describe but one I can pick whenever they are in my presence.
By the way, Setsugekka is pronounced SET-SUU-GEK-KA, learning Japanese at high school really paid off in terms of being able to pronounce the various Camellia varieties.
Fuji-no-mine, Kogyoku, Mikuniko, Narumigata, Shishigashira, Hanafuki, Kamo-honnami..................