These are the flowers we had in the garden in late summer 2022, taken mainly on 19 February 2022. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to
record what was in the garden at the time.
It's been a surprisingly cool summer. For the first time ever, we haven't hit 40°:
Yes, summer isn't (quite) over, but it's unlikely that the rest of the summer or autumn will
exceed those temperatures, and it's 2.2° lower than anything we've had before.
We only fixed the irrigation system three days ago. Why are they still looking so dry?
A bit of investigation showed why: we seem to have completely disconnected the irrigation
for that part of the garden. We'll be seeing Paul Donaghy again on Monday, and hopefully
we'll get things sorted out then
Our Alyogyne still looks
healthy enough, but it's not flowering much. I had thought that it could be due to the time
of year, but by chance I discovered that ten years ago today our Alyogyne in Kleins Road was flowering happily despite having
almost been uprooted:
Still, the current one looks healthy. Could it be that it has too much competition from the
Cannas?
There's not much else to see; looking at the view 10 years ago shows how much our garden has
declined. But the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis are doing well. The one in the garden has finally decided
that it's summer:
It should be getting enough water. What's wrong? Should I transplant it? It would be as
cheap to get a new plant.
And I had expected more of the Abutilons that we had grown from cuttings last year. They're not looking sick, but they have produced more flowers in the
past:
