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These are the flowers we had in the garden in late spring 2018, taken mainly on 16 November 2018. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
There's nothing much to see this month. The dead trees are dead, and the others aren't doing that much better, though there are signs that the Paulownia kawakamii might be growing a little faster. Other plants have reacted more obviously to the relatively generous load of fertilizer that I gave them, notably the roses:
That's all the more interesting because the Tropaeolum in the middle are not flowering particularly strongly, in contrast with the ones in front of the water tank:
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A couple of plants are flowering or coming up to flowering, I think for the first time: the Adenanthos sericeus (“woolly bush”), the small but brilliant Carpobrotus species that flowers all too shortly, and one of many Hebes that seem to be benefiting from the fertilizer:
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In fact, the Adenanthos weren't flowering yet. They have small red flowers.
And this, I think, is a Artemesia species. But which?
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Here are the rest:
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