| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-winter 2018 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-winter 2018, taken mainly on 16 July 2018. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time. It's been a surprisingly mild (but dry) winter, and the garden shows it.
We only have one Anigozanthos (kangaroo paw) left, the one that Sasha tried to eat years ago. It has recovered with a venegeance:
For some reason, probably inappropriate soil, the ones that Petra Gietz gave us have apparently died. We'll see for sure in spring.
The Grevilleas are doing well, both the grafted Grevillea bronwenae that we bought last year and the remaining ground cover Grevillea that we bought two years ago—the other one was drowned.
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The Hebes are starting to flower again:
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I can only assume that they suffered from lack of water, fertilizer or good soil in the past.
As ever in winter, the roses are a mixed bunch, but a couple are still trying to flower:
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The Tropaeolum are confirming my opinion of the quality of the soil south of the house (first photo). Those have been there for three years, and they have hardly grown. The ones in the second image were planted last year, and despite the exposure to frost recently are looking much better:
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And our little tree fern, the one that was recovering after being attacked by a whipper-snipper last November, has lost all its fronds:
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Hopefully it will recover in the spring.
The Buddlejas that I admired so much when we moved in to Kleins Road ten years ago are still (barely) flowering:
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And our Banksia integrifolia has a (single) real flower now, nicely hidden by the leaves:
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And one red Canna has defied the weather and formed new buds:
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Here are the rest:
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