| Greg's garden: flowers in late summer 2022 |
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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°:
mysql> select year(date), max(outside_temp) from observations group by year(date);
+------------+-------------------+
| year(date) | max(outside_temp) |
+------------+-------------------+
| 2009 | 40.4 |
| 2010 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 41.9 |
| 2012 | 45.4 |
| 2013 | 43.2 |
| 2014 | 46.6 |
| 2015 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 41 |
| 2018 | 43.5 |
| 2019 | 44.5 |
| 2020 | 43.2 |
| 2021 | 40.9 |
| 2022 | 38.2 |
+------------+-------------------+
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.
But it's dryer, and the front garden shows it:
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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:
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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:
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I'll have to find a better way to protect it in the coming winter.
And the cutting from Chris Bahlo continues to grow:
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So, I think, are the remaining Buddleja x weyeriana
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There's not much to be seen there, but it will serve to observe the progress.
The Clematis continue their uneven development. The “Edo Murasaki” is looking quite happy:
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But the “General Sikorski” has once again lost all its leaves, though it has produced a better flower:
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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:
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We didn't plant any tomatoes this year, but old friends came to greet us:
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It looked better before the wind blew it over. I should really prop it up.
And apart from that, there's very little to be seen. Here are the rest:
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