Wednesday, November 2, 2011

More flowers in spring






























1 & 2:Looking down the garden from the deck.
3: Looking up towards the front along the side of the house, with diosma, pelagonium and grassy plants are my Native Grass tree (Black Boy or Xanthoria), and a native orchid.
4: Californian Poppy.
5: Foxglove.
6: Statue amongst white ground cover.
7: My lilac that has flowered for the first time since I planted the runner 8 years ago, brought from Sheffield.
8: Rock Rose. They grow well as they don't get eaten by Wallabies!

Buddha on the deck


Buddha, a bowl of crystals and rose quartz, with flowering, sweet smelling native orchids or irises, on my deck.

Cottage garden by the beach


Foxglove, succulent ground cover, rock rose (with next door's house in background) Irises, border along the side of the house, white flowered Melaleuca's and Bottle brushes in flower.







Another view of my cottage garden corner.

Spring at Primrose Sands - October/November

Photo taken today, below the water tanks, where my garden is now looking like a cottage garden. At last!! Californian poppies, pale pink and white columbines, rock rose, foxglove, grasses, and cannas in the foreground.