26-SEP-2006
Babiana
I have a small patch of these & old fashioned & scented cream freesias growing under a standard rose called Edelweiss
Silent Strings...
A bearded iris that chose to open on a day with gale-force winds - so I picked it and brought it inside to save it from becoming battered and spoilt...
Some of the shots have psd work...
19-SEP-2006
Blue clematis
Clematis jackmanii
Shares an archway with the rose 'Renae'
09-SEP-2006
Blue Pacific
Ceanothus - a shrub covered in blue at this time of year. The shrub grows to around 2.5 to 3 metres in height and 1.5 to 2 metres in width and makes quite a splash of colour in early spring. Birds love to nest in the deep safety of the bush...
08-SEP-2006
Cuban Lily beginning to open
Scilla Peruviana growing on the edges of the rose garden
08-SEP-2006
Cuban Lily up close
Scilla Peruviana growing on the edges of the rose garden
29-AUG-2006
Winter Joy
Such good value in the garden - a wallflower which blooms for the winter months and into early spring.
29-AUG-2006
Vase of blues
An early spring rose - one of my favourites called "Gruss an Aachen" and yes - it is fragrant!
The photo was taken on our balcony in the spring sunshine.
29-AUG-2006
Vase cropped
A closer shot to show off the rose a little more. That's the blue salvia behind and the Winter Joy wallflower alongside.
29-AUG-2006
Vase and Gruss (the rose)
The whites blew out a little here, but the petals in the foreground looked okay I thought, so I decided to include it in today's offering.
29-AUG-2006
Salvia and Nemesia
The little nemesia - another little plant that blooms for months! Its the perennial form of nemesia and stays quite a low growing bush.
29-AUG-2006
Gruss an Aachen and the blues
Here's Gruss front on with the blues to keep her company.
29-AUG-2006
Blue Salvia
This salvia has been in flower for months - what good value it is in the garden!
Veronica
Very tiny and delicate flowers
Veronica
Very tiny and delicate flowers
Tiny flower on creeper
This little creeper grows all over the place - in pots, over the ground, wherever it touches base and gets enough moisture.
Blue bearded iris
Always the first to start the bearded iris season, the rest don't begin until October.
26-AUG-2006
Muscari art
It was 1-degree celsius this morning, so guess who had a play around with photoshop & a muscari spike!
26-AUG-2006
Muscari spike
I planted 100 muscari around the edges of the rose garden in 1990 and now there are THOUSANDS!
26-AUG-2006
Bordering bulbs
Muscari and Ipheion in bloom during August. They border the rose garden and create interest when the roses are mostly bare sticks with a few new spring leaves.
The Ipheion began as ONE bulb that turned up in the 100 muscari bulbs and now we THOUSANDS of these too. They make a neater border than muscari.