These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-summer 2016, on 15 January 2016. They're not all
overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the
time.
The garden is still struggling. On the positive side we have
the Cannas, which are finally
flowering, even if
the 'Yellow King
Humbert' is between flowers:
It must be a particularly hardy bulb. We didn't plant it there, and we didn't water it, but
somehow it managed to grow anyway. How did it get there? We suspect that a fox dug up the
garden in the winter, and whatever it was it brought up a lot of bulbs. Maybe this is one
that got away.
One of the Mirabilis jalapa has
been flowering for a while, and is quite happy in the entrance:
I've been irrigating as well across the fence to the Mariotts: it's really our land, only
the fence is too far north. There's
a Hebe trying to make it, and some
more bulbs are flowering:
But they're clearly struggling, presumably because of the heat and the wind. Certainly a
couple of trees are suffering, and it's not because of lack of water:
The first is an Elm, and I hope it will
survive. The second is our second attempt at
an Acacia cognata “Lime
Magik”, and it's clearly dead. The first died of cold, and this one must have died of
heat or wind. We'll have to think more carefully about placement before planting another.
