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Last month of Spring down under.
That title on this post is depressing, Spring is my favorite season. Let me see what I can find. The David Austin rose, Grace. Some of my many Snapdragons, which have put on a lovely show, and purple Honesty. I have never grown Honesty before, does anyone know if I have to wait for the seed heads to dry right out before I pick them? Oh, the reason for the lack of lawn is that some of the flower beds are in a reclaimed small sheep paddock, bordering on another paddock. Still looks better than it did when sheep or our house cow were in it. LOL.
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Next, I think, is a Peruvian Lily. (Alstroemeria). Some of my Sweet Peas, and finally a rose that most likely is Winchester Cathedral.
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Must say that Pansies are a big favorite here, I put them everywhere. Petunias are just getting going. Finally, the rose is another David Austin, Mary Rose. Not only is she beautiful, she is as tough as all get out, coping with our hot Summer easily.
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Oh how I love the David Austin roses.
![]() The Winchester Cathedral also looks like the Iceberg too. ![]() You have beautiful flowers GF and thank you so much for bringing us some spring memories. ![]()
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A grasshopper view of the David Austin rose, The Herbalist, one of the older DA's. Quite an eye catching pink. Another Bearded Iris, and one of the many Callistemons(bottlebrushes), I think it is called Fire Cracker or something similar. Best display it's had for years because of our wetter year.
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A couple of the Callistemons out the front now. The cream one is either C. Pallidus, or C. Salignus, and the red might be C. Kings Park Special. The tree behind the cream one is a Pomegranate which I tolerate because of it's lovely bright orange flowers, we never use the fruit itself but I think the possums like it.
Finally, just another Snapdragon shot. |
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Lovely gardens, GF!! I love the purple and pink theme going on in your third post!
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I butted in earlier and you weren't finished.
![]() That bottle brush is so kewl! I've never seen anything like that before. I'm gonna have to google that. ![]()
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Golly, you haven't seen bottlebrushes, klm and Hazel.
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Everything is late this year because it's been cool and wet, that's why I have to resort to old photo's. Here we have C. Citrinus Burgundy, C. Dawson River Weeper, and C. Mauve Mist. The good thing about these is you can prune them hard and they survive, you can saw them off at ground level and they regrow.
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Now, a better photo of The Herbalist(DA) taken this morning, then Tantau's Bernstein Rose and the big fat buds you get on Tipsy Imperial Concubine.
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This is the first ever Sprekelia in my garden. I think I'll buy some more next bulb season. Very exotic.
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Nope, I've never seen bottlebrushes.
![]() ![]() That Sprekelia is beautiful, too!!! (I've never seen that, either ![]() I'm going to have to try snapdragons again. I used to have good luck with them as a kid. Yours were beautiful this year!!!
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Don't worry, Hazel, I've killed my share and more. We are just having an exceptionally good year following 13 years of drought so I figured if I was ever going to have a pretty garden it had to be now. I reckon you could grow Callistemons(bottlebrushes), they are used a lot as Street trees here, without much care at all given to them. All sorts of soil too. Oh, don't know if they'd take snow though. Sprekelia looks like an alien plant to me.
![]() Meant to say, when you mentioned my white/pink/mauves and purple theme, that was meant to compliment the white Iceberg roses, which now look like flowering when all the rest have died. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Beautiful, GF!
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One last one especially for you, Hazel, a jumble of delphiniums.
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Heavenly blue!
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My pleasure, Hazel.
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Wow GF, your gardens are beautiful! I love the assortment of flowers and colours. You have a knack for gardening apparently. I have the same moldy thumb as Hazel, my kitchen window sill is now called "death row".
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some more pretties though. The lovely roses, Regensberg and Maggie, and some Flanders poppies. |
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Must get offline and do a bit but here is the David Austin rose, The Dark Lady. Then my first Sunflower for the year, which happens to be a Dwarf variety, and finally what I term our cockatoo's garden.
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Neither have I. Are they ever wonderful! I think my favorite is the Purple Honesty...they're so pretty and delicate looking
![]() ![]() Wishing you a successful summer garden as well, can't wait to see those photos either ![]()
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Well, the bad news is, LP, that in the past I never aimed for a Summer garden, not with it verging on semi-arid here. We always had to ration water because we never knew how deep the dam was. I guess now we are on the pipeline things can change. I've just taken some tomatoes in to our local nursery owner and had a bit of a look for summer flowering plants, but there is just nothing that catches my eye. I may be inspired when the summer catalogue from The Digger's Club comes out. To keep your spirits up in the freezing cold months I could always share friend's garden photo's with you. Those that were lucky enough to always be on town water.
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Anything with a bit of color would be nice...come February, I'll even be looking forward to seeing pics of green weeds
![]() How cold do your Winters get btw?
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I have to say that I'm in
![]() ![]() You surely do have quite a collection of different species and adore every one of them. O.K., keep em coming. ![]()
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LP, I laughed when you said you could even be looking forward to seeing green weeds. During our drought my house yard here, I do not exaggerate, was bare dirt. I remember looking at some photo's later and wondering why they looked so weird, and it was that first tinge of green arriving.
![]() Not Summer yet, klm, but it did reach 33C here today. On days like this certain roses will be a bud in the morning, will have opened and be burnt to a crisp almost by nightfall. So, these are the toughies, still looking reasonable. Apricot Nectar, then the pink Australia Felix keeping company with the white Pascali. Finally a bud from a rose named Sun Blessed. I suppose it's the roses with thicker petals that can stand the heat. It is very easy to get addicted to certain plants and start craving all those your friends show on garden forums. My friends in a small private forum feed the addiction too. Hippeastrums/Day Lilies/Frangipanis(Plumeria?)/dahlias etc.. You name it, they want to share it. Gardeners are lovely people. ![]() |
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My paths between the standard Icebergs are gradually getting narrower, as witnessed by the first photo. I wish those Icebergs would hurry up and flower before the locusts eat them. The other two are Salvias, the candy pink one is Salvia Joan but I forget the name of the purple one.
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Wow GF,beautiful,beautiful flowers,I cannot wait for spring and summer,I don't really HATE winter,we have to live with it,but I LOVE summer.
I too love those Bottle-Brushes,wonder if we can get the here ![]()
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Chico, sadly I somehow doubt if you would be able to get bottlebrushes. They are suited to zones 9 to 11 or 12. Pity because honeyeaters love them and they really brighten a garden up as well as providing shade.
For today, something mundane. Some Statice(Limonium). a Columbine, and some cheery Californian Poppies. |
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Next we have a mystery rose I am hoping someone will ID for me on a garden forum here. It was labelled Loving Memory but that rose is red. Hate it when things are mislabelled. Then there is Apricot Nectar. The heads of roses on this bush are so big that I have had to stake them up. We are going to get heavy rain today and tomorrow and they'd be flat on the ground otherwise. Finally a favorite rose, Makybe Diva, named after the champion racehorse mare that won 3 consecutive Melbourne Cups(the race that stops the Nation here in Oz, prizemoney now of 6 million dollars). A beautiful rose for an incredible mare.
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