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These are the flowers we had in the garden in late winter 2025, taken mainly on 23 August 2025. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
As I noted last month, this winter has even fewer flowers than normal. The spring bulbs are there, but nothing else seems to have noticed the coming spring, due in only 9 days. I had expected some signs of life from the Box Elder, Ginkgo and oak:
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Hopefully that's also the reason why my Clematis “Edo Murasaki” hasn't shown any signs of life yet. It did flower last month, so hopefully it's just late.
Things continue to deteriorate. As I feared last month, my Camellia japonica has had it. Here two months ago, last month and this month:
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It would be gone by now had Jesse had the time to remove it on Thursday.
Less unexpected is the situation in the north paddock, where Yvonne had a number of seedlings planted two months ago. Then we had:
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Now we have:
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Somehow our Alyogyne huegelii is continually beset by damage. It's still alive, but another branch has broken off:
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The Strelitziae are looking relatively good, though. The Strelitzia nicolai has two flowers on their way, and the Strelitziae reginae also seem to be preparing something:
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And though the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” in the garden is not looking as good as it could, one in the lounge room is flowering happily:
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And the cutting I made six months ago is also growing steadily:
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Here are the rest:
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