These are the flowers we had in the garden in late winter 2018, taken mainly on 16 August 2018. They're not all overly
pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Spring is clearly on its way, and some flowers are way ahead of the season. The
red Anigozanthos has progressed
further since last month, though the yellow ones in the driveway appear to have died,
possibly because of inappropriate soil:
We've never seen a flower on any of the variegated ones, and though this one looks
particularly bad, I'm wondering if
some cockatoos have been having fun with
them.
The mandevillas have had a varied
fate. The white one at the entrance to the house looked quite good until a couple of weeks
ago, but that has changed dramatically:
I'm not sure what caused that. Yes, they're (reasonably) frost-sensitive, but the position
was relatively protected, more so than the red one, which seems to be doing much better: