Marraya II

According to the Garden Gods, these plants are supposed to flower in the spring and summer. This one performed right on cue, and the Murraya hedge was jumping with white flowers and delicious orangey-jasmine scent during that period.
But it looks like the hedge is coming back for an extended season, because although autumn is well and truly in session, the hedge is flagrantly defying the Gods by starting to sprout a whole new bunch of those lovely white flowers.
Never one to complain about a bonus season - especially when it's complimentary - but I'm beginning to wonder if this is an artefact of global warming in the region.
In this neck of the woods (central southern Australia) woods, climate change is expected to bestow upon the hapless inhabitants an increasingly hotter and wetter climate. And the Gods freely admit that the Murraya flowers can continue past spring and summer and - intermittently - into subsequent seasons, where the climate is hotter and wetter. Bingo!
So it might well be that this year's extended flowering is not so much the exception that makes the rule, as the canary in the coalmine for climate change in the region.
I don't intend to complain about bonus blooms - who would do that? - but while the overall effect looks great, and it smells wonderful, I think I'd much prefer to forego those appealing extra flowers and have the traditional flowering sessions back again, thank you very much. Given the choice.