David Drive, Mooroolbark

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As soon as I parked my car I knew this was going to be an interesting street walk. Before me stood six pink and grey galahs busily attacking someone's lawn in search of food. After only taking a couple of photos, they departed en-masse to sit upon overhead wires, posing nicely.




It's a well-established area with well-established gardens with more traditional plants and flowers rather than the more exotic ones you find in newly established gardens. So it was no surprise to find some bottlebrushes and grevilleas.




Being winter, many daffodils were flowering adding their bright yellow blooms to brighten up your walk. A bush of pink azaleas also brightened up the day.




A nice display of daisies was in one garden with some of them escaping through an open metal fence.


Only one house was fronted by a picket fence. Many lawn daisies were growing on a couple of nature strips. These small flowers contrast nicely with the green grass and have a tendency to delay mowing to be able to enjoy them.


Many magpies were about, a little wattlebird, an Indian myna and a mudlark were the other birds sighted.






Being a short street only two walkers were encountered.



The few garden ornaments look like they were long-term residents, with two frogs resting among the foliage.


A swing wound around a tree branch and a bird bath were the only other garden ornaments sighted.


A pile of wood caught my eye, reminding me of a wood henge. A bare-branched tree looked attractive with a covering of yellow lichen.


Sunshine cone bushes, a native of South Africa, are in many gardens, their attraction being their red leaves forming a cone shape.


Nestled against the front wall of one house was a diorama of a European village. Another house was hidden behind a high solid brick fence with almost a brick lychgate.


A harbinger of spring was the appearance of a peach tree in full blossom. All fruit trees look spectacular when in the blossom stage.


A flower of the asparagus genus was seen and a single white lily was in one front garden. A single pink geranium stood out against the dark green foliage of its plant.




Several polygala bushes were in full flower. Oxalis plants are considered a weed by many, but their flowers are colourful. Often seen in front gardens are lemon trees, very tempting if you are having fish for dinner that night.




This short drive runs off Manchester Road but is an interesting walk as any galah will tell you.





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