| Greg's garden: flowers in early winter 2023 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early winter 2023, taken mainly on 23 June 2023. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
This month was special: due to my back injury on 5 June I was unable to take photos outside at all for a few weeks, and Yvonne took this series for me.
This also meant that I wasn't able to watch the progress of the sole Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” that flowered this month. To my surprise, it lasted nearly 3 weeks:
Not pretty, of course, but interesting, given that conventional wisdom has it that they only flower for a day.
I continue to be surprised by how well the Abutilon in front of the laundry door is doing. This time last year it was much smaller, but looking healthy. And then in the spring it nearly died. Here in June and December 2022:
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One half did die, but the other has come back with a vengeance:
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I suspect that it got too wet last spring. We'll have to keep an eye on that.
Apart from that, there's not much to see. Once again the spring bulbs have caught out with the last roses, this time with an Iris as well:
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