| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-winter 2022 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-winter 2022, taken mainly on 22 July 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 mid-winter, so there's not much to report. The roses have been pruned for once, so there are only a couple left over, and the first spring flowers are showing:
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And the Aloes in the succulent garden are preparing flowers, as is the Strelitzia nicolai:
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is doing about as well as I expected:
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That bud will almost certainly not flower, but for a relatively cool winter so far it's not looking too bad. I really need to find somebody to drain the garden in spring.
And the Alyogyne huegelii that Bryan Ross so mutilated is finally coming back in the middle of winter:
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The Camellia japonica looks as sick as it always has, but it's still flowering, apparently earlier than in previous years:
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In previous years I didn't bother watering the Fuchsias in the winter. This year I have done, for all the difference it makes. Here last month and today:
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The Abutilon that I grew from cuttings last year is still flowering; it doesn't seem to have stopped since I planted it:
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We also have a number of wildflowers (“weeds”), including these:
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The first looks like a daisy, but I can't recall having seen them here before. And this one most certainly is a weed:
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That's a stinging nettle, brought in with an oak sapling barely visible in front of it.
Here are the rest:
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