| Greg's garden: flowers in early winter 2012 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early winter 2012, mainly on 16 June 2012. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
This page shows most, but not all, of the flower photos I took: some were repetitive. They're all there on the photo pages around 16 June.
A disappointing discovery were these plants, which we planted in Spring 2010 as part of a hedge:
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They're a Grevillea hookeriana and an Acacia iteaphylla, and they've both clearly been blown over. The acacia might survive, but the grevillea was snapped off at ground level. That's not the first time I've seen them suffer from wind, but it's not a very good result for a tree sold as a hedge plant. We have a second of both plants in the hedge, so I suppose it's time to go out and reinforce with star droppers.
Somehow winter is less the time of no flowers as the time where summer, autumn and spring flowers overlap. Many summer plants are still with us, including the white Abutilon that we bought four months ago, which is flowering for the first time:
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The sweet pea overlaps with the Hardenbergia violacea, a spring-flowering relative:
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Late autumn flowers include the Dahlia imperialis and the Senna aciphylla:
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The Osteospermums that stopped flowering in late summer are back again, and the Hebes are still flowering shyly:
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I think they all suffered from lack of fertilizer. Next year I'll be much more generous.
More traditional winter plants include the Acacia iteaphylla (the other one, which is smaller but already flowering), Azaleas, the long-flowering Cyclamen, some of which have flowered all summer long, and the first Hellebores:
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Apart from the Hardenbergia, other plants that I associate with spring are the Daphne, Narcissus and another Grevillea:
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Then there are a few plants that I can't categorize. The current issue of Gardening Australia Magazine claims that Alyogyne huegelii is not suited to our climate, but our specimen disagrees strongly. When is it supposed to flower? According to the Wikipedia page it's from “June to January”, a particularly useful specification for a plant that is grown around the world. I suppose that time frame implies Australia, but it doesn't match my experience. It seems to flower continuously. My photos show I have taken photos of flowers every month since 11 October 2010, less than 2 months after we got it. And the Solanum vine that Yvonne gave me as a cutting is also flowering profusely:
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I had thought that it was Solanum laxum, also known as Solanum sauveolens, but that suggests sweet smell, and it doesn't have that. Yvonne took the cutting in late May, and it was flowering, so maybe this is the right time for it, or maybe it just flowers most of the time.
Here are the other photos:
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