| Greg's garden: flowers in early autumn 2024 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early autumn 2024, taken on the equinox. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Parts of the front garden are looking less than happy. The newly planted oak has decided that it's autumn, and the Japanese cherry doesn't look much better::
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The other oak closer to the arena looks happy enough, so I assume that there's some more irrigation work to be done, as the lawn also indicates:
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Other trees in the area also look less than spectacular:
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On the other hand, the Corymbia ficifolia has simply finished flowering:
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And the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” seems to have recovered from its freezing nearly 2 years ago:
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The transplanted Camellia japonica still looks anything but happy, but there's hope:
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Those completely green leaves are something new. Hopefully it will continue to recover.
The Abutilons are both looking much better than in the past:
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Clearly adequate watering makes a big difference.
The Banksia serrata is now flowering again:
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Presumably that's just a question of the season.
We've had our lime tree for so long that I don't know when I bought it. It could have been in August 2008, in which case it's a Tahitian lime. And it has seldom had much in the way of fruit. Until now:
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It's still not overly abundant, but more or less enough for us in the season.
I haven't seen these bulbs before:
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I think that they must be survivors of the plants that Jane Ashhurst sent us. For reasons I don't understand, just about all of them died, but I recall that some were supposed to flower like that.
This sad-looking lawn is the result of a glyphosate attack by Yvonne:
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To make up for it, the compost heap is growing happily:
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Here are the rest:
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