| Greg's garden: flowers in early autumn 2019 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early autumn 2019, taken mainly on 16 March 2019. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
The long, dry summer isn't showing many signs of abating. We've finally had a little rain, but only a little. Still, some plants are recovering, maybe also because of significant application of fertilizer. The difference is particularly obvious with the roses: this „Gruß an Aachen“ had almost no flowers to show when I showed it to Bev on Sunday, but now it's doing well:
Can that be as a result of the fertilizer? It seems too fast.
The other roses aren't doing badly either:
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And then there's yet another Gladiolus that has, apparently, only now found conditions suitable for flowering:
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On the other hand, it looks as if some plants haven't survived the summer, notably the Hebes that I had been watching over the summer:
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I fear that there's little hope for them. We should put something hardier in their place.
But not all Hebes are doing that badly; some at least are flowering:
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In general, though, I'm seeing the same effects that I have seen at this time in past years. Some plants are looking decidedly unhappy:
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But the Paulownia kawakamii seems to be doing well, possibly as the result of fertilizer. Here last month and this month:
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I'll have to spread much more before spring.
And the succulent bed is looking particularly good:
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The herb bed is a hive of activity:
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis with erectile dysfunction makes up for it by flowering copiously, if with small flowers:
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The other one, the clone of Uncle Max's bush, is less copious, but its sole flower is also surprisingly small:
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And one of the Hibiscus syriacus is also flowering, while the other shows no signs:
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And the Alyogyne huegelii (“native hibiscus”) is also flowering, more copiously than ever before: I only planted it six months ago:
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The pink lily that I noted a couple of weeks ago has now taken on a more expected colouring:
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One pleasant surprise is the Banksia integrifolia, which is now producing numerous flower spikes:
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The Wikipedia page explains that they come from two to three year old nodes in the foliage. Presumably the tree—now the largest that we have planted in the garden—feels happy where it is.
And the Hellebore that I transplanted two months ago is now looking much happier. Here before (17 January) and now:
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The other one, transplanted a couple of days later, seems to have been too late. But on careful observation there's a new leaf there too:
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And the one surviving Clematis is gradually looking like a real plant:
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Here are the rest:
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