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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-spring 2023, taken mainly on 24 October 2023. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
At this time of the year, the garden should be at its best. It isn't. Multiple issues have come to bear that seem to make each year worse than the one before, at least since we moved to Stones Road. At least part of it is clearly due to the fact that I no longer have the energy or inclination to do it myself.
One of the few new things is the Maple “Chantilly Lace” in front of the house:
At a distance it looks good, but even in this relatively protected position the leaves are suffering:
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The Abutilon outside the laundry that looked so sickly a year ago has recovered with a vengeance. Here a year ago and now:
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But the other one, on Piccola's grave, is still not looking good:
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The nearby Acacia is now enormous and looking very pleased with itself:
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It's gradually coming into flower:
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The roses are doing surprisingly well, considering that they haven't had much attention:
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The remaining Clematis is flowering, but there are almost no leaves:
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But that's about all. The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis has recovered from last year, but there's still no evidence of buds:
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Probably an issue of fertilizer.
It's fairly clear that the Alyogyne huegelii is 9 parts dead:
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Only a small stem is still alive:
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I've been watching with some pleasure how the seed spikes of this wild grass have grown over the years. They don't seem to go away by themselves:
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But that was last month. Today, to my horror, I saw:
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A misunderstood “please remove the dead flowers from the beds”. That took 8 years to grow, and now it's on the compost heap:
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Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
Here are the rest:
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