A Gardenia for Christmas

A gift from Nature

Unwrapping on Christmas Day. © Bronwen Scott.

It is summer in Australia. In the south, that means hot dry days, in the north, hot humid days. Here in the Queensland Wet Tropics, the monsoon has arrived, ushering storms towards the coast. Next week, the tropical low that formed in the Arafura Sea will sweep through, propelled by the monsoonal north-westerlies. It will bring heavy rain for as long as it sticks around, but the winds are…