| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-spring 2024 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-spring 2024, taken mainly on 24 October 2024. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Last month there was almost nothing to be seen in the garden. It's not very different now. A couple of days ago we had Nick Macdonald of macGARDENS in with his mate to tidy up the garden. They certainly got rid of a lot of weeds, though much is in the spraying, so it will be a few weeks before we see a big difference. And in fact the photos don't show any improvement at all, just an indication that the bulbs have finished flowering in the centre bed:
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To be clear: that's last month first, and then today.
But one thing does stand out, the Clematis that I have been nursing back to health. Last month it was just forming buds:
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A few days ago the first of them flowered. But today I found
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That must be Nick Macdonald's work. They had torn off not one, but two roots:
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Again! I can (only barely) forgive amateurs for making that kind of mistake, but these are highly paid professionals. I'm really very upset.
On the other hand, the roses are looking good:
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That doesn't have much to do with the gardeners. It's too early for that.
A couple of months ago Jesse Walsh planted some Carpobrotus and some random plants that Yvonne got from the Nyaris. Now it looks like this:
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Somewhere in that mess of weeds (a part that Nick and mate didn't address) there's a still surviving Carpobrotus, flowering. The other ones seem almost all to have died. No wonder I despair.
The Alyogyne huegelii seems to be recovering from the mistreatment it has had over the years:
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I wish that I could say the same for the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and the Strelitzia nicolai:
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Again, they're not dead, but despite the mild winter they seem to have suffered unduly.
Our two real oak trees seem to be doing very differently. The one planted in the east garden is not dead:
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But the one still in a pot on the verandah looks much better:
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The Grevillea rosmarinifolia near the house entrance hasn't been there long, but it seems to like it, something that I can't say of previous attempts:
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We should consider putting more in.
The transplanted wildflower that seemed to have been recovering last month still seems to be recovering, but it's not in a hurry. Again, last month and this month:
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It looked much worse a few months back, so there's still (a little) hope.
Some (few) things seem to be doing well, though. The Abutilon in front of my bedroom window has grown far larger than I had expected:
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And the Camellia japonica that we transplanted last December still doesn't look good, but the new leaf growth is green rather than yellow, so that seems to be an improvement:
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We have a number of plants indoors in the lounge room at the moment. The curry tree has improved almost beyond recognition in the last month:
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I will have to decide soon when to put it outside.
And the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” that looks so unhappy outside has a clone which is doing fine:
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I have also put the Spathiphyllum in the lounge room, and that seems to suit it too. It has been flowering for some time, and a second round has just started:
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Here are the rest:
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