Australian and New Zealand Gardening: TEA ROOM # 43, 1 by

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It's been such a strange winter ...some things like my pink hoey suckle are still blooming ...I have seen some agapanthus in flower up the mountain ...yet some trees dropped their leaves way before normal ...if I had to take a stab I guess it would have been considered a mild winter compared to the last two. This has surprised me a lot ...cestrum gave me some darling champaca seedlings and I was terrified they would die in the winter but two have continued to grow and are now over a foot high ...I do have them in a warm position but nevertheless it's quite a surprise ...I might add a very happy surprise, the other ones were sheltered on the verandah and have just sat quietly hardly any growth ...if only I had been braver.