| Greg's garden: flowers in late winter 2017 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in late winter 2017, taken mainly on 15 August 2017. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Compared to previous years, there's not much to show. I think that's mainly due to the cold snap we had a week or two ago. Almost all our roses are gone, for example; we only have this pitiful specimen:
And the frosts are almost certainly responsible for killing off the flower spike of the Aloe. Here last month and today:
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Even the Metrosideros excelsa, from chilly New Zealand, is looking the worse for the weather, though I'm sure it'll recover:
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On the other hand, one of the other succulents is starting to flower, and the Buddlejas are hanging on longer than usual; normally they're over and done with by July:
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The Camellia japonica is starting to flower, though the heavy winds we've had lately have removed many buds before they even got to flower:
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I had hoped that the bush would really take off after being planted in the ground, but last year, still in a pot, it looked much better:
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Still, there's hope yet.
The Leucospermum cordifolium isn't a particularly early plant, but it's clearly preparing:
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I've come to the conclusion that the Solanum laxum is planted in the wrong place, too exposed to wind and sun:
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And there's something growing on the wire mesh that supports it:
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What is that? So far I have no idea.
In the shade area, the Staghorn fern is doing well, but the Tree fern isn't:
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Time to stop spraying bore water on it, I think.
And the Senna aciphylla is still flowering:
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One plant that has only started flowering is the Helichrysum that we brought from Kleins Road:
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Indoors, the Begonias are growing well, though not overly quickly:
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And the Curry tree that had so catastrophically lost all its flowers has come back again, almost as if nothing had happened:
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In particular, normally the leaves come back only at the tips of the branches, but this time there are new shoots along the branches:
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Here are the rest:
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