winter scene

A few years back this view of the house and garden would have been totally blocked by a messy stand of black bamboo which kept me busy throughout summer when numerous shoots popped up all over the place, and alarmingly, sometimes many metres away from the main stand. A stunted gardenia that was being starved by the bamboo grew just in front of where I stood to take this photo. Unfortunately it had to go too in order to get to all of the bamboo. Much better now.