March is officially our first Autumn month, but we don't see fabulous changing foliage colours here. The Gum trees in the bushland around my place stay green all through the year. Just in the last week or so the conditions have become rather more comfortable. While the daytime temps are still pretty much the same as the summertime temps over the last three months (around 31-32 deg C or 87-89 F), the humidity has dropped considerably. This makes a huge difference!
Unfortunately the wet season has proven to be a bit of a fizzer. We're now almost at the end of our wet, and we've seen very little in the way of torrential downpours that are typical of a monsoonal rainy season. So far this month we've only managed to reach a total of 67.2 mm (2.6 inches), and most of that fell over a couple of days back at the beginning of the month.
So we've been seeing plenty of blue skies dotted with huge fluffy white clouds!! Ho-hum!!
Summertime was downtime in my garden, so there's only a few blooms to show today. Out in the courtyard ...
Out in the shadehouse ...
In the tiered garden beds ...
In the driveway garden beds ...
To finish off today, I'm adding some photos of a magnificent Lace Monitor I spotted climbing a tree in the bushland close by our fence. Whilst it's not a bloom, it certainly does have fantastic dark grey colouring with creamy yellow scales forming stunning bands and blotches across its body.
I'm joining Carol for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day
