| Greg's garden: flowers in late summer 2023 |
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These are the flowers we had in the garden in late summer 2023, taken mainly on 22 February 2023. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
As time goes on, I wonder whether I bother. In Kleins Road there was something to see. Here I'm reminded of the old question “are there any trees in Australia?”, with the answer “No, we import them from overseas and watch them die”. It really almost looks like that. Here our 7 year old Ginkgo biloba:
Some plants look marginally better than they have in the past, like the Schinus molle:
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And I can't make up my mind about the Corymbia ficifolia. It might even have grown a little, and I can't make up my mind whether these stalks have flowered or not:
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” has recovered from the winter frost, but it has only produced 2 flowers this year, and I didn't get a photo of them. But the whole area seems to have been taken over by the cannas:
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There's also a now-unhappy Alyogyne huegelii in there.
The “Chantilly lace” maple that we got last June is clearly not in an appropriate place. The leaves are burnt:
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When it drops its leaves I think I'll move it in front of the house, where it only gets the morning sun.
The Leucadendron that nearly got drowned seems to have survived, and is coming up with new growth:
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The Clematis “Edo Murasaki” has finally got over Bryan Ross' mutilation and is in its autumn flowering season:
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And the Abutilons continue to surprise. Clearly the one left in the pot has outgrown it, and it's not looking at all happy. And on the other hand, the one in the ground, which was looking so unhappy earlier in the season, has at least partially recovered, though one of the stems has died:
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It's a similar story with the Buddlejas. The one in the pot is only holding its own, and the one flower is looking less than happy:
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On the other hand, the one of the three small cuttings that I planted in the south bed has greatly outstripped the other two:
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So there's a lesson here: instead of taking photos of the things dying, I should do some basic gardening to improve the plants. But it's all so depressing.
Here are the rest:
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