A couple of my favourite reds for the lead-up to the silly season. We planted this kangaroo paw this year and it's flowering for the first time in spectacular tall stalks with furry-looking flowers on the ends. They open up one by one, and each afternoon a striped honeyeater visits, clinging on to the stalk and poking its beak down the newly opened flowers. The stalks have started to bend right over from its weight but none have broken....yet.
 I can see why this was chosen as the floral emblem of Western Australia, as it looks stunning with very little effort.  |
At this rate the pair will be done in time for winter next year.. I had a bit of a crisis after I turned the heel, because I tried it on and it felt too small. So then I put it aside and tried not to think about how I should've probably done a tension square first. Luckily I couldn't bring myself to unravel it, so I kept going and now it fits fine, and I love it!
