What's flowering in our garden over X-Mas?

Unfortunately, not much is flowering at this time of the year.

The lack of rain, and high temperature (32/33 degrees) are seriously  affecting our garden.

The grass is now all brown. I know it will be revived after the wet season starts, but the question is when will it start?

The lake water has come down dramatically  and we finally had to take the boat up to our house again to avoid having it bogged in the mud.

These 2 pictures were only taken 8 days apart!

I am amazed at the resiliency of the blood lilies, still flowering even though I never water them.

And the flame trees  are flowering (no leaves) all around Yungaburra, making a splash of red across the brown and dry landscape.

This tree was covered with masses of creamy flowers, inviting the lorikeets early morning and evening.

Another tree/weed? Which seems to thrive in these harsh conditions! (I'm definitely going to try making cuttings to grow elsewhere).

The following plants needed the help of the watering hose in order to stay alive.

The hibiscus I pruned severely when Svenne erected the veranda on the side of the house, ( and I thought I had killed, is flourishing again.

My desert roses, which I re-potted a couple of weeks ago have thanked me with beautiful blooms...

and have now started to seed.  Can't wait to make more babies...

The geranium cutting I pinched only a couple of months ago has also flowered .

I always enjoy looking at these succulent's flowers. They look so delicate and dainty!

This ivy has flowered for the first time. I didn't even know they would have flowers. Surprising.

My tree fern (which I thought was dead about 3 months ago) have also come back to life.

The brunfelsia commonly known as "yesterday, today and tomorrow" or  "kiss me quick" has now flowered for the second time this year and had masses of sweet perfumed flowers that are violet one day, light lilac  the next and white at last. I think I will prune it when it finishes flowering (hope I don't kill it!)

The tree next to our veranda are also producing seeds after flowering.

My veggie garden, unfortunately hasn't been so lucky and is all about dead, even though I watered it. So  I've finally come to term that it's not worth it during summer time and will wait until autumn to start again. I however, managed to dig out a couple of cassava roots, with  5 plants still to  be harvested.

All in all there are  more flowers in our garden than I thought!

I've realised in the last two years that gardening is a constant struggle but Oh! so rewarding most of the time.

We can't believe the drastic change in the landscape in only a 5 month's span... :(
We definitely need rain.