| Greg's garden: flowers in early winter 2022 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early winter 2022, taken mainly on 21 June 2022. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
There's nothing special to note in the winter, except that autumn meets spring. On the autumn side we still have a number of roses, though they still need more attention:
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Surprisingly, one last Clematis is still trying to flower:
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And the Salvia microphylla is still not dead:
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On the other hand, spring flowers are still barely recognizable. The first couple of snowflakes are barely flowering, so little that I didn't see them the first time round:
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The trees in the east garden are not doing spectacularly well, but they don't seem to be dying. I was concerned about the long-suffering Ginkgo biloba, which we transplanted a few months back. It's not looking good, but it is producing buds:
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The Corymbia ficifolia isn't flowering (nor should it, but it did this time last year, but it's not looking nearly as sick as it did last spring:
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I've been suspecting for some time that the problem isn't the cold, but the wetness. That could also apply to the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max”. Here this time last year (first two images)a, in October and now (last two images)::
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Even now, the water level in the area is very high. Here the solenoid pit about 5 m from the Hibiscus:
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So it might be a good idea to put another extraction pump there, though it could only discharge into the “river” of gravel running past:
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The lid of the pit is visible about halfway down on the left, next to the Arum. Much would trickle back, but with enough effort we might keep things dryer.
The lime tree is bearing more and more fruit, and it's still flowering, but it's clearly not happy:
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That may be because it's directly above the pit, and it also doesn't like the water.
The Camellia japonica is another plant that has never looked happy.
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It might be suffering from the same problem. In this case, though, there is already an extraction pump right next to it. And since it doesn't look very happy in the summer either, this might be a different problem.
Here are the rest:
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