| Greg's garden: flowers in early summer 2017 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early summer 2017, taken mainly on 15 December 2017. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
This month I somewhat extended my range by taking photos of many tiny (wild?)flowers that I had previously ignored. That included focus stacking, something that wasn't completely successful.
The Anigozanthos (kangaroo paw) plants are doing very well. This is the one that Sasha chewed on a couple of years ago. It has recovered well:
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And these are the ones that Petra Gietz gave us a year ago:
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The Box elder is growing relatively fast, though not enough for Yvonne's liking:
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The Buddlejas in the south are doing from well to badly. This one is over a metre tall and is developing flower heads that we expect next month:
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This one is only about 40 cm high, but it's looking a lot better than last month (first photo):
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That may be due to the liberal dose of fertilizer I gave it. On the other hand, that doesn't seem to have helped this one, which is barely alive:
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The Clematis that we paid so much money for last month are still there. And that's all. They don't seem to have grown at all:
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The grass spike that I identified last month has now flowered. First, last month:
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This month it seems to be fully open:
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The thing must be about 3 m tall.
The black grass that we brought from Kleins Road, and which never seemed to do very much, is also flowering:
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And the Hebes are also finally flowering relatively consistently:
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I think this is an indication that they need more fertilizer than I have given them in the past.
The Leucospermum cordifolium is now also in full flower, though there are still more heads maturing:
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And the various lilies that we have planted over the last couple of years are all coming up now:
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The Cannas are in full flower:
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The big tree fern is looking presentable again, and the little one appears to be raising a finger at the person who cut off all its shoots:
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The roses are doing OK, but not well, possibly because they haven't been cared for. Time for more regular pruning:
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Indoors there's not much to see. The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis are currently hardly flowering at all. This is the best that I could bring up today (15 December), though more are on their way:
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The Phalaenopsis are still flowering, though it's clear it won't last much longer now:
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And though the Begonias are not overly profuse, they have grown extensively:
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Time to trim them.
There are lots of smaller flowers on the property that might be considered weeds, but maybe they're not. Here are some that I've identified:
This one looks something like a Dandelion, but it doesn't develop puffballs. It also grows in water. Somewhere I have seen an indication that it's an Australian native:
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This one is really tiny, with flowers only a couple of millimetres across. It's visible in the first photo (amongst the Carpobrotus) only on careful examination.
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Yvonne thinks, probably with some justification, that this might be a species of Lobelia, and thus exotic:
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This one is growing in the nature strip between the house and the road. It's the first time I've seen it, and it, too, might be exotic:
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This is another tiny one, but apparently distinct from the previous. The hose in the background is 19 mm in diameter.
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Here's yet another. The leaves are different. Hopefully I can get a better photo:
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Here's yet another that looks similar, but only at first sight. I need better photos:
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This one is everywhere this year, even in our old pots:
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And this one I've seen before. Again I need better photos:
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Here are the rest:
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