All things trees and dirt and red straws

Each day I find myself glancing at these words. 
Over the last two days we have "gardened on" until it now seems like we have planted a forest out there!
Nearly all the tree tubes have been planted out now. In fact almost 100 of them.
 Ridiculous really, but I don't expect them all to survive in the concrete-like ground that some of them were planted in.  
We are just glad to finally get them in the ground.

In the end we had all five watering cans being used.

Bill decided to take some drastic action to stop himself being  target practice for the magpies.
Hence, the red, bendy straw......

He says he was attacked at least five times yesterday....and it hurt.
I must have been the distraction out there today because we hardly had a strike!
It could have been the pink crocs and Aunty Audrey's hat!

This little guy was disturbed during planting. I hope he is still okay. This was one of 20 Kings Park callistemons that we planted in a sweep ( or should it be swathe ?) along the western side of the house at the front.
In any case, we tried to do some block colour planting this time instead of the usual box of smarties that we end up with.

The same with these gorgeous leucadendrons.

8 for $20.....bargain.

My close inspection of the orchard last night revealed these.....

...and there we were thinking we were going to lose most of the fruit trees!
They were very much in the path of the fire and I would have expected them to be more sensitive to those conditions.
We are glad that we just let them be for the last seven months. (Quite apart from the fact that we didn't know whether they were dead or just in their natural Winter dormancy).

Some Coral Bay snaps that make me smile...

Look at the colour of that water.....beautiful!