June

June Weather

1st of June is the official start to winter in Australia.  This month will see the shortest day (or the winter solstice). Frosts are more common this month asday and night temperatures get quite cold.

What is Happening?

Plants

• The crepe myrtle leaves have turned red with the shorter days and cooler temperatures. Soon they will loose their leaves.
• A number of wattles will begin to flower this month.  They include: Woolly Wattle, Flinders Ranges Wattle and Gold Dust Wattle.
• Several grevilleas should be flowering this month.  They include: Grevillea rosmarinifolia, G. levis, G diesiana, G. obtusifolia, Spider-Net Grevillea, Robyn Gordon, Ellen Pool, Sea Spray, Sunsprite and Winparra Gem
• The Golden Spotted emu bush will continue to flower
  Saloop bushes have flower buds

Animals

• Mice will start to become more noticeable in warm spots in the garden, sheds and houses.
• White-plumed Honeyeaters are still around feeding on the flowering Dwyer’s Red Gum.
• The many grevilleas that flower at this time of the year provide a great source of winter food for the honeyeaters. 
• Eastern Rosella may come into the garden as the food supply outside becomes scarce.