| Greg's garden: flowers in early autumn 2021 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early autumn 2021, taken mainly on 21 March 2021. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
In the last month we have had no fewer than three visits from Bryan and Nathan of “Custom Cuts”, and they have transformed the garden. It's now tidy, most of the weeds are gone (they're planning another visit soon to do the rest), but it hasn't had a big influence on the flowers.
The surprises were these bulbs:
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And also the remaining Buddleja × weyeriana, in a pot to protect it from the soil, has started to flower despite the pot:
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I had hoped that the Clematis would carry on blooming through until autumn, but it's not that good. The Clematis “Edo Murasaki” is still (spring?) flowering, but barely:
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And the General Sikorski seems to have suffered from lack of water. It now has two stems, and though the right-hand one looks sickly, it's not dead:
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I'll observe.
The Leucadendron in the north garden is also doing well:
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Inside, two of the the Abutilon cuttings that we got at the end of January have not just taken well, but one is about to flower:
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I'm hoping that the garden makeover will finally result in a good-looking garden. Maybe then I can drum up some enthusiasm to do something there myself.
Here are the rest:
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