| Greg's garden: flowers in late summer 2021 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in late summer 2021, taken mainly on 19 and 20 February 2021. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
It really doesn't look like late summer. The lawn is not only green, but also full of various flowering plants:
I can identify at least three different kinds. First, there are things that look like they could be dandelions,
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And then there are considerably smaller flowers that I've noted before, but not at this time of year:
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These are almost certainly the “ground cover” that I tried in vain to cultivate last year.
And finally, only a small number of a third kind of flower:
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It's interesting that they're all the same colour.
Apart from the unseasonable weather, things are not as bad as they could be. Clearly our garden is showing signs of neglect. Paul Gallagher, the new gardener, does good work when he's there. But he doesn't stay long enough, and he has just not shown up twice now. It shows:
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That's a bed that he weeded a couple of months ago. And the path round to the west of the house will soon be impassable:
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Not a good advertisement for Jim's Mowing.
The surviving trees in the east garden are doing well. I had been concerned about the Corymbia ficifolia, which had not recovered from the winter—until last month. It still looks straggly, but it is getting considerable new growth. Here last month (first image) and this month:
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And the Schinus molle also seems to be improving. But it has been a year (first photo)!
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The Box Elder is also holding its own, though clearly it would like to be free of weeds:
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The Clematis “Edo Murasaki” that was so badly damaged in the winter continues to flower:
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And even in the far north bed, where even my Gallipoli rosemary died, the Salvia microphylla is making a comeback:
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It's nothing compared to the blue-flowering Salvias next to it, though:
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I've been neglecting some things, though. In the shade area, the Staghorn fern that I got for my 60th birthday has almost disappeared, but it's not done yet:
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I really need to put it somewhere where it won't be forgotten.
And the Epazote that I ignored last year has now recovered, and coming up for a new year's crop, though I haven't even made many headroads into last year's crop:
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The chiles serrano are a mixed bunch. The one I planted in October is not dead, but it's smaller than it was when I planted it (first photo):
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Yes, it's in there somewhere, overtaken by less prudish other plants. The second one (which could be a chile de arbol) is doing better:
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I wonder why they have such difficulties.
From a facilities point of view, there's still a lot to do. My repair on the sprinkler 1 distribution worked, but now the connection has burst elsewhere:
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Here are the rest:
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