Thank You

Thank you to everyone who commented on the last post (did you start to hear a lone bugle player then?). I loved the pink church story. And Yam-Aunty pretty much summed up my philosophy.  I just had to get over myself...

No one died. No one had been injured. No animals were harmed in the making of my mistake. No one went hungry or had to sleep out in the cold... So the colour is a bit red (a lot red, Aussie hardwood red and that's saying something) but as environment goes its the difference between colours redolent of silver tussock (borrowed photos from t'internet) and local soil colours

versus dried bracken

The dry bracken won't be around forever however as my plan was (and remains) to plant up the area in front of our house with silver tussock (Poa cita) and Lancewoods. It is not on my list of ways to spend my dunwerkin time mowing lawns or trimming hedges, so English grasses were never an option.

Try to imagine this next borrowed picture without the green trees background - a view through the lancewoods to distant hills...

Now that's my idea of a low maintenance lawn, but you see why I was annoyed I had red stained the cedar cabin.

I'll find something suitable to take the red out into the landscaping. Red tussocks perhaps...

Chionocloa rubra (and cabbage trees)

...it's probably wet enough here for red tussock to survive.

60mm of rain forecast for tomorrow.  That is not quite 2 and half inches in old measure.