gardens transformed in the tropics

We have been looking at parched earth for the past year with er in doors planting many plants here and there and then having to either water by hand or I to redirect some reticulation here and there.

and then the wet season - before Xmas was parched when I returned after the whole site had been transformed into a lovely green velvet carpet of something - not quite sure what but I love the color.

in many places in OZ the deserts bloom for a short time and then gone again. In one of our local Indigenous dialects Yorro Yorro - everything standin up straight and alive.

When I lived in Bahrain we used to drive into the desert about 3 days after it had rained - albeit not much rain - and there were crocus flowers all over the low lying parts, They would last just a couple of days before the sun and blown sand saw them off and they would vanish back below the surface.