| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-spring 2020 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-spring 2020, mainly taken on 22 October 2020, a month after the Vernal equinox. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
The most interesting thing this month was this plant in the pile of topsoil in the east garden:
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What's that? I've never seen one before. It appears to be a creeper, and my guess is that it arrived with the topsoil.
On a less positive note, a number of plants are looking quite unhappy, despite my attempts. The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” isn't dead, but it's certainly not thriving:
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At the very least I need to protect it from the elements next winter.
The Hibiscus syriacus are coming ahead as expected, so it's not just the time of year:
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And my five-year-old rosemary bush is still barely alive:
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In fact, the whole bed seems to be suffering. The Syringia (Lilac) that I planted some time back started growing a while back, and once again it's withering:
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And the Buddleja × weyeriana that I planted last month also doesn't seem to be doing overly well. Here it was when I planted it last month:
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And now it looks like this:
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Yes, it's producing new growth, but it did that in the old place, while the shrub died. By contrast, the second plant, still in its pot, looks much better:
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The first one isn't dead yet, but it seems to be in a bed where everything dies. There are also a couple of Salvia microphylla that seem to have died, and even the Banksia integrifolia, now 4 m tall, doesn't look very happy:
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A number of the cones look strange:
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What's wrong in that bed?
Elsewhere things aren't looking overly good either. The Paulownia kawakamii, which should now be about 5 m tall, has survived the burnt buds of a month ago, and it's looking better:
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But it's nothing like what it should be. And the Schinus molle that we planted last summer is looking no better than when we planted it:
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Somehow I'm completely discouraged.
There are a few positive signs. The Iris are now in bloom:
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And the Strelitzia nicolai is gradually flowering again:
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And the Alyogyne huegelii is flowering effectively non-stop:
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That's really one of the few plants that looks good and grows well.
Here are the rest:
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