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.

late spring garden

 

a peaceful corner underneath the rowan tree

potted herbs and flowers underneath the gum tree

gorgeous red double poppy

Rosa Princess Alexandra of Kent

Rosa Pierre de Ronsard

bees in a mermaid rose

white daisy and red poppy

A working garden

 

 broad beans and poppies, side by side, and a head of parsley flowers

a patch of wilderness - daisy, sweet pea and agapanthus

potted zucchini and strawberry

Tuscan kale and Cos lettuce and borage to attract the bees

ready to work on an overgrown veggie box

Bright and cheerful

 

Ixias and roses

A perfect rose

A flowering bulb

Red poppies

Pink dianthus

Blossoms

 Cherry blossoms in full bloom.

Apple blossoms

Damson plum blossoms

Spring garden

 

bluebells

a gathering of flowering bulbs

potted tulips

collection of pot plants on front porch

Geraldton wax flowers

a native bush, name unknown

pink echium and lime green euphorbia in the outside garden

blue echium

mass planting in the outside garden

pile of autumn leaves and soft pruning to turn into compost