Around the Garden

What is happening in the winter garden?

The salvias across the front of the house have really filled out this garden bed this year:

One of those flowers close up:

Every morning I watch the spinebills having their breakfast in these salvias. I haven't managed to photograph one this year, but there's a photo from last year here. They don't only have breakfast here, they come back several times through the day to get a nectar meal.

Another smaller salvia elsewhere in the garden has had most of its flowers removed by crimson rosellas:

The bees have found the tree dahlias, and visit them when it is not too cold to fly:

Very hard to see, but there is a bee in that flower on the left.

In the green house, one of the orchids is sending up a couple of flower spikes:

I don't know if the ants are a problem or not.

The flower bracts on this leucodendron blend into the big rusty ball:

A teeny-tiny geranium:

And finally, the zygocactus which used to flower for my birthday in the city, is starting to open a few weeks late: