A couple of nights ago, I spent some time with the seedlings and decided to help the frangipanis out of their capsule. Armed with a 10 mL syringe that I use to water the seedlings (I find there’s less disturbance to the soil and seedling when I water this way) and a couple of toothpicks, I carefully removed the capsules of those seedlings where I could see a bit of stem.

Pictures are in the frangipani gallery.

We’ve had some crazy wet weather in Perth this past week, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up any time soon. We definitely need the rain here, but the wind has whipped up a mess and almost completely decimated my tomatos. The tomatos are over a metre tall and even though they were staked, the wind was so strong it bent a couple of stalks and all the tomato leaves look shaken up.

I took them indoors and re-staked them, within half a day they looked happier. I know it’s my own fault for planting the seeds in the wrong season.

I kept the tomato plants indoors for a couple of days, but its going to need to go back out in full sunlight soon. Hope the weather eases up soon.

Strangely, the gardenias still look happy as can be even though they where attacked by the wind the most.