These are the flowers we had in the garden in late spring 2022, taken mainly on
21
November 2022. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to
record what was in the garden at the time.
It has been raining now almost continually since the beginning of October. In that time we
have had 444 mm of rain, nearly ¾ of an average year's rain. And it shows:
I think that it will survive if it ever stops raining. By contrast, the other plant, which
we hadn't planted into the soil, and which looked much worse than this one, is looking
better, though it, too, needs to go into the soil:
The Clematis “Edu Murasaki” has
recovered from Bryan Ross, though it doesn't look as good as it should: apart from the rain,
we've also had a lot of wind, which has destroyed many of the flowers:
I'm still having trouble with the Buddleja x weyeriana that has
given me so much concern. One has now been planted, and the other is in a pot. Neither
looks good, but I have hopes for the one in the ground:
Then there's the volunteer Acacia, the one they call “blackwood” round here, though it's not an Acacia melanoxylon. It's now
flowering relatively profusely: