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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-autumn 2025, taken mainly on 21 April 2025. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
The dryness continues, and even the little forecast rain hasn't arrived. Things are correspondingly bad. I don't know how many of these roses will survive, despite irrigation:
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Clearly the irrigation is part of the issue, but I'm no longer in a position to look at it myself, and it seems to be beyond the comprehension of people who help me. Other plants are also suffering:
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Some, however, are not. To my surprise, my Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” is flowering happily:
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And the Abutilons, despite some issues with the watering, are flowering happily:
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The one near the laundry door has almost completely eclipsed the “fly spot” bush that I had planted—I thought—next to it:
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And the Strelitziae reginae are looking happier than they have been in a while. One even seems to be producing a flower:
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Can it be that the soil has been too moist for them?
And the Grevillea robusta is finally growing, after only 6 years:
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And the Solanum laxum that I had thought dead has come back. It's difficult to see in the second image, but it's creeping up the fence post:
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Maybe I should plant it elsewhere.
Here are the rest:
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