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Garden update:

I has broccoli. The first broccoli I've ever grown, and I'll be able to pick it some time really soon.
The peas have flowers, lovely white things.
The silverbeet of various colours is surviving. I think I ought to sprinkle stinky goodness upon them.
The beetroot continue to amuse me. I have three different varieties with which to torture Dad at Christmas. He loves beetroot, and he adored the jars I gave him of my very own homegrown, homepickled beetroot last year. I'm not sure whether he can cope with a jar of golden, and a jar of ringed/striped, as well as a jar of the traditional red (I put in two varieties of the latter, so we'll see how they go).
I still have a live eggplant. Stuffed if I know how, as it had a bad case of dieback after First Frost. It is still alive, though.
The first punnet of kale is thriving. I shall endeavour to remember to pick up a different variety this weekend, and install it in the prepared place. If I remember, this patch will result in the horrifying of Mother and delighting of Dad with a variation on sauerkraut later in the year.

I has hyacinths! No blooms, yet, but they keep popping up in places I'd forgotten about. I really must remember to separate them this year, I'd like to rejuvenate that soil for them.
I has johnny-jump-ups! They's flowering.
I has random fungi appearing everywhere.
I also has a small swamp.
I has freesias.

Jobs for Sometime Real Soon Now:
prune roses
prune camellias
prune apricot
prune geranium (preferably permanently)
prune bottlebrush