Garden Update

This what my flower garden looked like before summer arrived here in Australia:

During the winter and spring here Victoria received plenty of rain which caused my yard to be mostly green and the flowers to bloom.  Now in the middle of the hot, dry Aussie summer it is quite a different story:

As you can see my grass is a dead brown and the purple flowers that bloomed are gone.  Notice my fern has completely dried up and died.  Due to water restrictions we cannot water our yard or garden.  The best my wife and I could do is use water from the washing machine to give to the garden.  This water has been able to allow us to prevent a complete disaster of our garden as you see there are still a few flowers blooming.  My grass is so dead now that the kangaroos won’t even eat any more.  You’ll have to take my word for this, but if the kangaroos won’t eat then that is some really dead grass.