| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-spring 2016 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-spring 2016, taken mainly on 16 October 2016. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
There's really not much to show this month. The last Canna from last year is just about dead, and the last Petunia is also more of interest that it's there at all.
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The spring bulbs have all but faded, even the tulips, of which we evidently didn't buy enough. Here's what's left, including, paradoxically, a snowdrop which passed its flower-by time months ago:
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The Westringia fruticosa that we planted in autumn are flowering relatively well, and the Camellia japonica hasn't quite stopped flowering:
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis in the lounge is flowering again, but today, for the first time, it had a pink flower:
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What caused that? Lack of fertilizer? Random mutation? I'll address the first possibility first.
And apart from that? Not much. Yvonne is right that we should plant some new flowers.
Here's the rest:
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