Tulip time, Irises, Daffodil

 A few flowers from the garden in winter and spring.  The below flower attracts the bees, and this plant was shifted from the front garden to the back one, it's called ?rose and for the life of me can't think of it's name.  It has flowered all winter.

I've never grown tulips before this year I planted two colours red and yellow, the yellow hasn't come out as yet and it might not. We used to go to the tulip farm along the north west coast, you will find a post here of tulips grown there.

We moved the Irises in late summer to a different area in the garden, they are doing better but the wind knocked them about.

I love this coloured daffodil.

Curtain Springs, Northern Territory.

The outback of Australia.

Curtain Springs Station is an interesting place.  The area is: 416,400 hectares.  Acres: 1,028,948 acres. That is a huge area.  Curtain Springs Station came into being in 1956 with owners Peter Severin and his wife Dawn (dec) along with their toddler son Ashley and 1,5000 head of cattle settled there.  There are 4 generations now living at Curtain Springs Station.

You can read the history [ here ] and the site also shows videos.  If you have time and interested it's certainly worth visiting their site to read the history and what they do now.

We stayed for a couple of nights in the camping area as it is on the way to Ayres Rock (Uluru) a 1 hour and 16 minute drive away. There is no water but of course there is water underground, if there wasn't you certainly couldn't live in Central Australia.

Mt. Connor is larger the Ayers Rock (Uluru) Northern Territory and is seen on the way to Uluru.  Mt. Connor is 859 m high (2,818 ft) and lies within Curtain Springs Cattle Station. There are many camels in the area too.

These photos are far from Curtain Springs Station.

As you can see by the map, it's in Central Australia, far from towns.

The below photos of Curtain Springs were taken from Google Maps and it gives you some idea what it's like to live in the middle of nowhere with hardly any grass.