Splendour of the early summer garden

 

The mermaid rose is an exceptional climbing rose which is doing very well after the hard pruning I gave it in winter.

My favourite summer flowers, the colourful sweet peas.

The apple green banksia as seen from my kitchen window.  In the foreground is the pomegranate tree, now showing flowers, promising fruits to come.

The magpie, a resident in my garden.

A friend who was giving up gardening gave me this Cape violet a few years ago.  It has been flowering without fail, every summer.

Spring growth

 

Ixia flowers underneath the crab apple tree

Grevillea

Gazania

Rose arbor

Cherry blossoms

Wax flower

Ranunculus

Colourful azaleas

Forget-me-not and ixia

Cyclamen

Old fashioned red rose

Lemon tree

Yacon

Kale and parsley

Borage

Flowers to cheer up the winter garden

 

Anemone in different colours

The first daffodil

Golden daffodils

Tulips

Hyacinth

Jonquils and anemone

Hellebore

Bright white daisy

Winter Flowers

 

Jonquils brighten up the garden in winter.

The two varieties of succulent are blooming well in the cold months.

The azaleas are already flowering.

Even in winter the salvia and lavender do not stop showing off their beauty.

Autumn glory

 Harvested from the garden: pomegranates, feijoas, tomatillos, Cape gooseberries, olives, eggplant, chillies and cosmos and nasturtium.

Pomelo

Protea with lemons in the background.

Hakea flowers

Giant maple

fruits and flowers

 With the summer season coming to an end the garden is slowing down but there are still flowers to admire and fruits and vegetables to harvest.

Cape violet and pansy

Begonia

Flowering cactus

Another flowering cactus

The last of the jacaranda flowers

Ripe tomatoes

Small tomato harvest

Finger lime

Cumquats

Summer garden

 

Cherries, sweet and juicy.

Flat peaches, looking like a doughnut, sweet and juicy.

Still waiting for these peaches to ripen.

These tomatoes are small in size but super tasty.

This hydrangea has small petals and live amongst the azaleas.

The huge hydrangea bush is on the east side of the house,  with the tall tree fern in the background.

This is the front garden with jacaranda, roses and agapanthus in bloom.

A perfect pink rose

The cosmos and dill with their feathery leaves are sharing a pot.