Flowers and fruits

The garden is looking a bit untidy, with the leaves of the flowering bulbs taking their time to take up the nutrients for next season's growth.  The poppies are on the way out and I am collecting the seeds to sow in winter.  The fruits are growing bigger and the trees must be covered with netting.  A few flowering plants are providing some colours.  Below are the colours of a potted pansy, an easy to grow succulent and some green cherries.

a busy garden

The vegetables and flowers are doing well.  They are ever so busy, producing buds, flowers and fruits.    It is a pleasure to walk in the garden each day to discover something new.  It is always a pleasure to harvest broadbeans and snow peas and the silverbeet and rainbow chards.  Seedlings are doing well and I am watching the pumpkin and zucchini seedlings to make sure they are not under attack from slugs and snails.

The vegetables, above, and below the flowers.

This rose, the colour of sunset.

A beautiful red.

In bud and open bloom, a deeper red.

Simple but beautiful

Flowering bulbs and lavender

Red poppies

Pink bottlebrush

wandering nasturtiums

Geraldton wax flower

white daisies

a riot of colours

At the moment the garden is looking good, with the flowering bulbs giving a splendid show all over the garden.  The azaleas too are vying for attention, with colours in shades of pink, red, mauve and white.  The feeding they received last autumn is working.  My favourite is the pink climbing rose, the earliest amongst the roses.

climbing pink rose

spring garden

and now some seedlings, ready to grow

signs of spring

Blossoms from the Manchurian pear and the first daffodil in the garden, have to be signs of spring approaching.  Unfortunately the daffodil is surrounded by oxalis, which I have been pulling out.

The wallflower bush has been in the same spot for over seven years.  I pruned it back last summer and they are back looking very cheerful.  The azaleas and camellias are enjoying the rain and there are more buds appearing so I can be assured of flowers right up to late spring.  As for the cyclamens, they have been looking after themselves, with a little help from some seaweed.

These orchids opened in July and I am tempted to look for different varieties to add to my small collection.

Two more limes ready to pick.

red and green

The beautiful autumnal red leaves of the rowena tree, brighten up a grey and cold winter afternoon.

Different shades of green from the Russian kale, the silver beet and nettle.

Rainbow chard, lettuces and Asian greens, ready for the picking.

A few months to go before these garlics could be harvested.

growth in my winter garden

The azaleas are beginning to look good.

Fruits from my potted lime tree.

The lime tree.

There are a few small fruits in this smaller lime tree and I hope the flowers will set.

Summer flowers in late autumn

The sunflowers grew from seeds that dropped from the mature plant in late spring.  I let the seedlings grow, not expecting them to flower but here they are, resplendent next to the blue salvia.  The bushy salvia attracts all kinds of birds and the weight of the larger ones would break the tender branches.

mauve salvia

yellow roses, still budding

tuber begonia

autumn in a pot - self-sown rowan tree

2 pots of turmeric plant, still growing