These are the flowers we had in the garden in late summer 2021, taken mainly on 19 and 20 February 2021. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to
record what was in the garden at the time.
It really doesn't look like late summer. The lawn is not only green, but also full of
various flowering plants:
It's interesting that they're all the same colour.
Apart from the unseasonable weather, things are not as bad as they could be. Clearly our
garden is showing signs of neglect. Paul Gallagher, the new gardener, does good work when
he's there. But he doesn't stay long enough, and he has just not shown up twice now. It
shows:
The surviving trees in the east garden are doing well. I had been concerned about the
Corymbia ficifolia,
which had not recovered from the winter—until last month. It still looks straggly, but it
is getting considerable new growth. Here last month (first image) and this month:
I've been neglecting some things, though. In the shade area, the Staghorn fern that I got for my
60th birthday has almost disappeared, but it's not done
yet:
I really need to put it somewhere where it won't be forgotten.
And the Epazote that I ignored
last year has now recovered, and coming up for a new year's crop, though I haven't even made
many headroads into last year's crop:
From a facilities point of view, there's still a lot to do. My repair on the sprinkler 1
distribution worked, but now the connection has burst elsewhere: