| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-summer 2022 |
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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:
Is that Bryan Ross, or does it stop flowering in mid-summer? Looking back to last year we had:
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So I'd say that Bryan is off the hook this time.
The cannas are doing well, and there's even a volunteer in the middle of the lawn:
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One plant that definitely doesn't look happy is the Eremophila nivea:
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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:
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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):
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The Box elder, Oak and Schinus molle are still around; maybe the Schinus molle will survive after all:
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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:
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And the Hibiscus syriacus on the north side of the house also has a few flowers:
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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:
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And the “Edo Murasaki” is growing almost normally and producing the first buds:
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And the Vietnamese mint that Bryan Ross murdered is now coming back, presumably with a vengeance. It now looks almost the way it did when I got it:
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One weed that keeps coming back is this:
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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:
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