| Greg's garden: flowers in mid-spring 2019 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-spring 2019, taken over a few days a month after the vernal Equinox. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
Normally I try to take the photos on one day, but the weather wasn't really appropriate this month, so I started on 23 October and dragged on for a couple of days.
Somehow the garden is changing. Things that flowered have died inexplicably, and others have sprung up in their place. For the first time the Carpobrotus on the island in the middle of the driveway are flowering well:
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The Leucospermum in front of the house is generating a lot of flowers:
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It really needs to be moved elsewhere, into full sun.
The Buddlejas that gave me concern last month seem to be on the way to recovery. Here the same bush, first last month, and then two photos from this month:
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It's not there yet, but my guess is that the liberal dose of fertilizer made the difference. Maybe that's the explanation for the death of a surprising number of other plants in the spring: they recover from the winter, stretch their muscles, and die from lack of nutrients.
The succulents that we nurtured in the lounge room and then planted in the succulent bed haven't quite reacted the way we expected:
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They may still survive, but next time we should give them a chance to acclimatize before leaving them out in the sun.
Strangely, the rosemary bush has a number of dead branches:
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What caused that? I would expect it to be really hardy.
Once again the roses are coming up well:
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One thing that doesn't seem to be working out the way I expected is the native ground cover in the north garden. Last year we had some pretty leguminous flowers:
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It seemed a good idea to let them take over various surfaces in the garden. But so far they have grown like fury, far higher than intended, and they haven't flowered:
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Are they even the right plant?
The north bed also has a plant that I can't quite identify:
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Did I plant it or is it a volunteer?
It's a volunteer, and one that I have known for decades. Here a photo from 19 September 2000:
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thumbnails small images diary entryIt's Echium plantagineum, better known as “Salvation Jane” or “Patterson's Curse”, one of the most noxious weeds I know. But I don't think I've seen it since moving to Dereel.
The plants on the arches in the north garden are finally flowering shyly:
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And the Clematis are promising. Here the Edo murasaki:
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Sadly, one of the main stems of that plant was broken off in the wind. I don't think it will manage to flower:
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On the other hand, the General Sikorski that nearly died has now recovered after being dug out from under the Tropaeolums:
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I should probably do the same in the front garden, which is overrun from what promised to be black Tropaeolums:
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Inside, I'm still having issues with my curry tree. I thought I had beaten the mites, and I can't see any more, but it's still dropping leaves:
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Can it be that it didn't like the soap spray? Or should I repot it? I suppose the good news is that it has done this many times before, and it has still survived for nearly 10 years.
On the other hand, the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” is flowering profusely as almost always:
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The one outside is looking sad, but it does have a number of shoots, so I'm expecting something from it:
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Here are the rest:
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