Cactus flower

I love this time of year when this nondescript plant gives us a beautiful flower. For a day.

Nice lilies

Four days apart

Almond. First of many I hope.

I'll be cutting down a nashi whose time has passed. But the upside is a new place to transplant my almond to. It gave me my first nut this year.

Caramelised onions: Allow an hour

Forget all thise quick recipes that say it's ten minutes to prepare caramelised onions. I know why they say it - who wants a rhythmic 1h10min recipe - but it's crap.  The ones here have gone for about 25 minutes already.

Cover them, low heat, some oil, stir them often.

For at least 40 minutes.

Lillies unopened

So full of potential. I love the journey of lilies. Seven days of beauty.

Not really Valentine's day flowers though.
Not very romantic - "here are some buds". Most people receiving flowers don't think in the long term.

But lilies are a beautiful journey.

Interesting toadstool

In the trough with the frangipani and the chilli bushes. I love the way a garden is interesting at all levels.

Ant Rid or just sugar?

The downside of two things:

Pesticides, and
People not cleaning up after themselves.

This ring of ants feeeding on something I've seen before. Benign is just theyre feeding on some sugar, less benign is they're feeding on Ant-rid.

I'll find out.