Pruning, dumping and flowering

Dull today, with a bit of drizzle. My friend came to pick me up and take me back to her garden to prune a shrub for her; I'd asked if she'd got the right tools and she confirmed that she had secateurs and loppers. What she didn't say was that the loppers had lost a blade and were unusable!

We took a trailer load of her earlier prunings down to the Recycling Centre, aka The Dump, and came back to my place to pick up all the prunings I'd done yesterday. I'd forgotten how small her trailer was, but we eventually got them all in and taken to the same place. Whatever did we do before recycling became normal! Well, prunings were burnt, I suppose.

Coming up the steps at the back of the garage I noticed that my Chilean  Asteranthera ovata, which scrambles through the moss on the rock face, had a new flower, plus another bud. I've not seen it in flower this late before. My  Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, has also put out a second batch of new fronds - I haven't seen that happen before either! Climate change - or just wet and warm weather?