What’s Flowering? – February 2018

This month has been a tough one for me and for the garden, some days were too hot for me to get out and water. The massive Gums send roots out everywhere to poach every little drop they can so many plants are sunburnt, some have shrivelled sections and some have died. I was surprised by how many flowers still managed to show their faces.

Alstromeria

Portulaca – biclour

Tacoma

Begonia

Chinese Lantern

Chives

Not a flower – a succulent

Correa

Cosmos

Dahlia

Dahlia

Dahlia

Daisy

Diete

Eremophila – Red Rod

Fuchsia

Hibiscus

Hibiscus – Summer Love

Impatiens

Lavender

Portulaca – yellow

Hollyhock

LillyPilly

Liriope

Polygala

Lobelia

Lobelia

Calypso – miniature Rose

Not a flower -a succulent

Chameleon miniature Rose

New Guinea Impatiens

Pansy

Plumbago

Portulaca – orange

Portulaca – pink

Portulaca – pale pink

Prostrate Rosemary

Salvia – burgundy

Salvia – dark purple

Salvia – dark pink

Salvia – red

Salvia – violet

Succulent flower

Seriously Stressed Sunflower

 

WPC: A Face in the Crowd

A different take on, “A Face in the Crowd“.

 

 

WPC: Sweet

One thing is for sure, Caramel Popcorn is sweet!

WPC: Beloved

OK, not what you were expecting but Dad loved wearing his dungarees. They suited his lifestyle pottering around in the garden, fixing a lawnmower or pulling apart the Whipper-Snipper which wouldn’t start. He couldn’t accept it was because he didn’t have the strength anymore to get it going. Now his beloved dungarees have a special place in his old cedar chest which I’ve inherited.