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These are the flowers we had in the garden in early autumn 2023, taken mainly on 22 March 2023. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
The “Chantilly lace” maple that we got last June is still waiting for moving to a more appropriate place, but we'll leave that until winter. In the meantime, it has a companion, a Magnolia × soulangeana “Burgundy Glow” given to us by the same person:
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We'll plant it up behind the covered riding arena, where it gets good sun but also protection from the wind.
Some other bushes are doing better than expected. The Corymbia ficifolia is still coming into flower:
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At the rate it's going, it could flower for another month. And the Buddleja x weyeriana that we planted on the south side of the house also seems to be doing better than any other since we moved here:
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And the Abutilons that we cloned are also surprising. Now the one that I thought was dying has come back with good foliage, but little in the way of flowers:
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And the other one has finally come up with a solitary flower:
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I should really get round to repotting it.
One surprise were these lilies, which I thought only flowered in the middle of the summer:
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” suffered so badly last winter that it only bore two flowers the whole summer long. The best thing I can say is that it isn't dead yet:
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And our eight year old Ginkgo biloba doesn't look overly convincing:
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Hopefully that's just the coming autumn.
Here are the rest:
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