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:
Strangely, the Narcissus
started flowering before the Snowdrops.
In addition, the Solanum
lycopersicum (better known as tomatoes) are still going strong:
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:
And despite my concerns, the Senna
aciphylla is really flowering more obviously at this time of year:
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:
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:
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:
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:
The Hebes have also almost
completely finished, but there are still a couple of odd flowers:
To my surprise, the Carpobrotus have
been flowering sporadically for some time. Maybe it's a leftover of the dry spell in the
summer:
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:
And the newly planted Lavender
and Lilac are doing about as well as can be
expected:
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:
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:
Here are the rest: