Month: February 2018

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: 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.