Autumnal Glory

The chill in the morning is telling me that autumn is here.  A few leaves are changing colours but the shades of red and yellow, blue and white, are still coming from the flowers in the garden.  Some of the summer flowers are still making a beautiful display but the belladonna lilies are on their way out.  At the moment what I find so impressive are the blue lobelia and the portulaca in a shade I cannot name.

the blue lobelia

an interesting shade of portulaca

pink begonia

Tuber begonia with white flower, and an image of a butternut pumpkin accidentally included.

Summer flowers

The garden is full of summer flowers and some, like the zinnias and petunias, are the easiest to grow. The sunflower, scattered all over the garden is so cheerful, even when the sky is grey.  The roses and hydrangeas keep the garden in bloom.

Colourful zinnias.

Petunias, so easy to grow.

The cheerful sunflower.

Ever faithful summer flowers.

Summer harvest

Some pictures to show the fruits of my labour.

Flat peaches in early January.

Eggplants, tomatoes, chillies and basil freshly picked for the evening meal.

Eggplants ready for picking.

pictures from the garden

Flanders poppies

This year the red Flanders poppies are everywhere in my garden, inside and out.  The outside garden is the block outside my fence which I have filled with all sorts of plants since moving here nine years ago.  The red poppies are doing well but not the mauve variety, which looks like the opium poppy.  See below pictures of the red poppies.

This last picture is of the outside garden where the poppies jostle for space with the white ixias and borage.

Spring garden

The garden is bursting with colours but the most noticeable is the white blossoms of the cherry tree.

The bulbs are growing crazy.

Blossoms and other spring flowers

I have not done much in the garden as it has been wet and cold.  The plants though know what they have to do.  The blossoms are out and I notice daffodils where I was not expecting them.  As for the azaleas, I am promising them a good pruning and feeding after the flowering is finished.  My only camellia is doing well and I am thinking of getting another one, perhaps a white one.

Deep pink camellia and mauve azaleas.

Red azalea

More buds on azalea

Daffodils

wall flowers

violets

white blossoms of the Manchurian pear

Beautiful pink of a delicious peach.

flat peach blossoms

apricot blossoms