These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-summer 2022, taken mainly on 22 January 2022. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to
record what was in the garden at the time.
After a very cool spring things have gradually warmed up, and in the past couple of days the
temperatures have been over 30°, with more forecast. The grass in some places has adopted
its typical summer colour, brown. And of course there aren't many flowers at this time of
year.
The Alyogyne is now surrounded
by cannas, and it's barely
flowering at all:
I'd say it's dead. Of course, it has flowered happily for several years, and maybe it's
just short-lived. The Banksia next to it looks as good as ever:
It's the only tree that we have planted that has exceeded 2 m in height; it must be double
that size. Maybe we should plant more of them.
The struggling trees in the front garden are making some progress. The Corymbia ficifolia has recovered
from what I think was a near-drowning in the spring, and though it still doesn't look good,
it's a lot better than this time last year (third image):
The Hibiscus
rosa-sinensis has produced the first real flower, and the cutting that I got from
Chris Bahlo (also a descendent of the “Uncle Max” bush) seems to have decided to grow:
The second one, opposite the shade area, clearly doesn't like the position. Unlike so many
of our plants, it's not dying, but it's also not doing well.
The Clematis aren't dead yet.
The “General Sikorski” looked as if it was dying, but it's now producing new leaves:
That's some kind of tomato, of course. I wonder what kind. I've given up trying to
cultivate them, but potentially there's something worth having there.
And apart from that, there's very little to be seen. Here are the rest: