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Post by braided-rug on May 11, 2006 23:19:31 GMT 10
There is a rust chrysie to the left of the above photo near the fence.
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Post by braided-rug on May 13, 2006 22:24:34 GMT 10
Today after stacking the wood dh moved our pots under a bush to keep them safe from the frost. It is a new bush and I realised the other day it is big enough to shelter some other plants now. It is a winter flowering buddliea called Wattle Bird. I am glad I went to the trouble to find one to grow.
That was 2 years ago now. I look at a couple of nice plants and think, wow they have been in the ground 2 years and it is so great to see how they are looking established. One is a small sweet olive a very neat little bush that looks well.
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Post by braided-rug on May 20, 2006 15:30:59 GMT 10
DH took some photos of the crysies. Here is my favourite. His favourite is a red one.  |
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 4, 2006 16:54:18 GMT 10
The hyacinths the girls planted are nearly up. There are still flowers and some leaves left. We pruned a couple of perennials and mowed this weekend. One sunflower is hanging in there just. It is a toughy.
My camellia is flowering, well the sasanqua.
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Post by teddymaker on Jun 14, 2006 5:18:19 GMT 10
Linda, that is the most beautiful chrysanthemum i have ever seen!!!...The color is outstanding!!!
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 14, 2006 9:41:52 GMT 10
Thanks Jayne. I love it too. The person who gave it to me is a great plant shopper. They were given to me this time last year. That one had no flowers when I got it, so it was a very pleasant surprise when it flowered.
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 14, 2006 9:51:12 GMT 10
It was lucky we moved the pots when we did. We have had some extreme frosts. One birds nest fern had about 4 leaves sticking out from under the bush and they went quite brown so that was moved further under the bush.
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 24, 2006 16:29:06 GMT 10
The weather has been kinder, and we had some rain. The roses have been pruned. We are waiting for the tulips to come up and the hyacinths have hardly grown at all. We have some quick cement to put the garden arch in so it doesn't fall over any more. Then we can tie the two roses called Renae to them, they are always flowering, even now.
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Post by braided-rug on Jun 30, 2006 22:33:59 GMT 10
The Renae's are starting to go dormant. Their arch is in place which is fantastic. They are tied on!
It has been exactly a year since we got the arch.
3 tulips are up, so there is hope. We left them in the ground, which some people say doesn't work, so I hope more come up. Maybe the rain has helped there.
We have put in cuttings of a plain honeysuckle and have a new mystery plant like a lillipilli.
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Post by braided-rug on Jul 18, 2006 23:12:44 GMT 10
The hyacinths have a flower coming up and it is quite large, the largest looks a purplish colour.
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Post by braided-rug on Jul 30, 2006 22:39:07 GMT 10
Everything is at its plain stage atm. Except I noticed some pretty violets out the back. The jonquils and snowdrops are slow, and the wattle. A little while to go yet, except the osmanthus out the front looks promising.
Today the tiny maple leaves got belatedly raked up.
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Post by braided-rug on Aug 7, 2006 17:10:24 GMT 10
The last of the roses were pruned, the yard probably could do with a minor weed and the edges doing. It looks nice out the front today though with the sun shining and the lawn freshly mowed.
Today I bought tubes of: a bean tree, a veronica, a pin cushion flower, a lamb's ear, and I think something else, but can't remember.
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Post by braided-rug on Aug 26, 2006 19:46:41 GMT 10
Goodness, it looks like nothing has been happening much for August.
We got all but two of the tubes planted, I still have to find places for the broom and the bean tree, if that is what it really is, it is just a stick atm, ie very cheap.
The hyacinths and small osmanthus are flowering and the tall osmanthus is budding up nicely, we have a whole hedge of those.
The jonquils look really nice, they were not daffodils after all, but I am very pleased with them.
The wattle is nearly ready to come out over the fence.
We have little johnny jumpups here and there. The tulips are growing and the roses have shot.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 10, 2006 17:05:54 GMT 10
The bean tree is actually a native of America, and we planted it very carefully in the middle of the front yard. We just have to hope for the best now. The miniature broom got planted today.
The tall osmanthus birkwoodi is lovely today, so white. They are 3-4 feet tall atm.
The jonquils have finished flowering. The wattle is out atm.
The tulips thankfully seem to have buds on them. Some people dig them up and store them in the fridge.
The magnolias are flowering now, very pretty.
The roses were fertilised today. We also moved half of our lawn daisies.
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Post by braided-rug on Sept 17, 2006 10:06:59 GMT 10
Yesterday I got my first tulip flower and also my first sweet pea flower.
The mauve or lilac is a paler version of the ones grown in the 1960s here. I have three types of sweet peas, tall, short and medium, and maybe will have three lots of colours. My husband and I haven't grown them for around 18 years.
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