| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-winter 2025 |
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-winter 2025, taken mainly on 23 July 2025 They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Somehow this winter has even fewer flowers than normal. By now the spring bulbs should be blooming, but about all I can see are these few Narcissus in front of my office:
That's probably because of the extreme dryness we've experienced over the last year or so. There are signs that that is easing, but the damage has been done. Despite all attempts at irrigation, I think that I have to accept that my Camellia japonica has had it:
|
|
|||||||||
And maybe that's why this is all we have to see in the way of roses:
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
On the other hand, the Strelitziae reginae are looking happier than I have seen them:
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
Can it be that things were too moist for them before?
My Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” is looking better than usual at this time of year:
|
|
|||||||||
And I think that the Grevillea robusta is finally taking off, after only 6 years:
|
|
|||||||||
And the Grevillea in the driveway is also looking better than I have seen it:
|
|
|||||||||
And the Solanum laxum near the water tanks is also recovering from what I had thought was death:
|
|
|||||||||
Much of that must have to do with the drought. But I wonder why I still bother with the garden. Somehow it's too depressing.
Here are the rest:
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| Greg's home page | Greg's diary | Greg's photos | Copyright |
