A tiny touch of gardening

 --- Dedicated to @erikah for sharing in the love of Violets 😁 --- Autumn isn't a very exciting gardening season as so many things tend to go dormant or slow down growing, but I did a tiny bit of maintenance including repotting my African Violets which had overgrown their shared pot. I bought them thinking it was one plant but soon realised that I was wrong. I like being wrong like that! I wanted to gift one of them to a friend so decided that it would be a good time to let the second one have the entire pot to itself. You can see that they were starting to get a bit overgrown at the edges. I'm terrible at trimming off old leaves. ---  --- While I was potting about (pun intended lol), I noticed that they both had the tiniest little flower buds starting which made me quite excited. I had to be really careful to not break off the buds and I succeeded but unfortunately two leaves that were the worse for wear fell off in the move. I put them in water and with some luck they'll root in a few weeks. I love free plants! ---  --- Shortly after the repotting, I noticed that the first flower had opened and it is the most gorgeous, frilly and irridescent looking flower. I know they come in all sorts of colour forms and you get ones with flat flowers and frilly flowers, of course the frilly ones are my favourites because they are fun and just a little bit different. Unfortunately my zoom lens was giving me grief while trying to take these photos so they aren't the best, but you get the idea. ---  ---  ---  _{Image just for cuteness} Another cool thing is that my accidental tomato plant has been flowering and yesterday I found the first little baby tom. It's only 1cm wide at the moment, but look how cute!!! This tomato seeded itself from a tomato slice that was put into the flower bed as compost. The flowers are popping up everywhere but I'm having issues with some pests that are eating into the stems...snails - the bastards! ---  ---  --- I haven't quite worked out how to get rid of these yet, other than squishing them when I find them, but they're so damn small and there seem to be millions! The only thing I like about them is their cute snail trails that glisten in the sunlight. ---  --- The Rosemary has loved the rain we've had recently so it's been putting out new fresh sprigs everywhere which has been nice to see contrasting with the flowers of the tomato. I'm also having to deal with white fly laying their wooly eggs sacks on the olive tree. Apart from that, we've got some flowers coming out on the Canary Creeper which is exciting as it's the first time it's flowering. I can't wait to see it when the whole trellis is in full flower. --- ---  _{White fly wooly egg sacks on the olive tree...sigh!} ---  _{There seems to be a lot of yellow in the garden, it's almost like spring, but better.} --- It's strange to think that it's meant to be a dormancy period when there is still so much growth going on wherever I look. We haven't had the super cold weather kick in just yet though, so I suppose this will wane as the temperatures drop. --- ##### Proudly AI Free, all original photos unless otherwise stated and sourced