| Greg's garden: flowers in early winter 2018 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early winter 2018, taken mainly on 15 June 2018. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Winter is the time where autumn meets spring. The roses are still flowering, but so are the first of the spring bulbs:
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Strangely, the Narcissus started flowering before the Snowdrops.
In addition, the Solanum lycopersicum (better known as tomatoes) are still going strong:
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The tomatoes will probably not ripen on the vine, but barring a severe frost I can pick them and let them ripen inside. I already have a number which are just waiting to be eaten. It looks as if we still have at least a month's supply.
We can tell that it's winter though, because the Arums have started flowering:
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And despite my concerns, the Senna aciphylla is really flowering more obviously at this time of year:
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I've been keeping my eye on the Alyssum in front of the house since they suffered so badly from lack of water in the summer. They're still there, though not as good as last month:
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The Anigozanthos that we planted in the island in front of the house seem to have died—maybe the soil was not porous enough. But the red one that the Marriotts gave us when we moved in has long recovered from Sasha's attention and is now flowering happily:
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Our Banksia integrifolia tree has been growing quite happily, and it's now the best part of 3 m tall. But no flowers—until now. Now we have three, if you count the first two growing out of the trunk:
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I wonder how they'll continue.
Some late summer flowers are finally giving up, including the Cannas and the Buddleja, though we still have a couple of Canna buds:
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The Hebes have also almost completely finished, but there are still a couple of odd flowers:
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To my surprise, the Carpobrotus have been flowering sporadically for some time. Maybe it's a leftover of the dry spell in the summer:
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I wonder how that will continue.
The flowers we bought in Pomonal in the spring, the Grevillea bronwenae and the Eremophila nivea, are doing well, better than for a while, as is the prostrate Grevillea that we bought some time ago:
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And the newly planted Lavender and Lilac are doing about as well as can be expected:
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Our Staghorn fern has had an accident largely unrelated to the season. After nearly 10 years, the board to which it was attached has rotted away:
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I'll have to find out how to remount it.
And finally the Westringia fruticosa are starting to flower more profuseley and look like bushes:
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Here are the rest:
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