I got all my garden tasks done GWRS plus some extra and I made a huge pot of soup to freeze with a lot of my produce. Only disappointment was I missed the Royal Mailman with my plants and he took them back to the depot so will not get redelivery till Monday. I do hope they survive. It is grasses and hostas. I will not try to do a great deal tomorrow as I am going to a big 70th birthday bash one of my friends is having tomorrow night which goes on till late. A nap after lunch might be a good idea.
Morning everyone. well it's not really morning for me, but hello should suffice. Ive not gardened today, but we went out the back for more firewood since there is another bout of rain predicted later today and tomorrow, and we don't want to have to cut wet wood. Found a few flowers out there while Hubby was busy with the chain saw.
This a little Glycine clandestina.
Tried to upload the Olearia, but it won't work. Will try another time.
Fascinating pictures, Pat. Thank you so much. Just guessing but are a plumcot and Peacherine what we call a dwarf plum tree and dwarf peach tree? Or something quite different like a variety? That Twining Glycine is such a pretty purple climber or does it take over like our bindweed(convolvulus)? The yellow daisy, Cybonotus preissianus or Bear's ear is very pretty. What is the classification of your climate? i know Western australia is Mediterranean but yours seems more like ours ayt times which of course cannot be as you do not have the benefit of the Gulf Stream running round the coast.
Bristol is once again calm and dry and ideal for gardening but I will reduce my workload as I am going out to a party tonight.
Marion. The plumcot it is a apricot/plum cross and the peacharine is a peach and nectarine cross. The fruits are very nice.
i hope you can read the above labels. I'm glad I kept them. The Glycine is very small and doesn't take over (at least here where it occurs naturally).
I'm trying to think how our region is classified. I know it's called "dry schlerophyl" type of the kinds of plants that grow naturally here. It's also mountainous ( in Australian terms). Certainly not Mediterranean. It's a long time since I've thought about that. Will dig in some of my old books. I do find that most of the comments in our gardening TV shows, are more relevant to the Hobart growing conditions.
Of course! I have not seen those for sale here but we do have hybrid berries - mostly blackberries and raspberry hybrids. Thank you for the climate information.
Marion. We're classified as "cool temperate". (Also in another source, sub-alpine), but you'll get the general idea. Strangely though, just over the range which we look at in front of the block, the trees and other plants are very much more rich and almost coastal. That is on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range. There is a national park over on that side called Wadbilliga. There's another nearby called Deua national park. These areas were of great interest to early plant explorers and many new plants were discovered, described and named. Like you, I find this sort of stuff interesting.
will try again to post the Olearia. There were bees with little yellow pollen sacs on their legs moving all over the place.
Yes see them Reminds me of my willow tree last spring when the honeybees descended on it in their thousands. We were marveling at how they could manage to fly they were so laden.
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Happymarion , you certainly are going to be busy , don't over do it
Looked at " Secret garden " site on web certainly looks intresting
have a good day
I got all my garden tasks done GWRS plus some extra and I made a huge pot of soup to freeze with a lot of my produce. Only disappointment was I missed the Royal Mailman with my plants and he took them back to the depot so will not get redelivery till Monday. I do hope they survive. It is grasses and hostas. I will not try to do a great deal tomorrow as I am going to a big 70th birthday bash one of my friends is having tomorrow night which goes on till late. A nap after lunch might be a good idea.
Morning everyone. well it's not really morning for me, but hello should suffice. Ive not gardened today, but we went out the back for more firewood since there is another bout of rain predicted later today and tomorrow, and we don't want to have to cut wet wood. Found a few flowers out there while Hubby was busy with the chain saw.
This a little Glycine clandestina.
Tried to upload the Olearia, but it won't work. Will try another time.
Cymbonotus preissianus (austral bear's ear)
Plumcot
Peacherine
Early signs of spring. I've discovered that if I try to put a lot of photos on, it doesn't work, hence the separate tries.
Fascinating pictures, Pat. Thank you so much. Just guessing but are a plumcot and Peacherine what we call a dwarf plum tree and dwarf peach tree? Or something quite different like a variety? That Twining Glycine is such a pretty purple climber or does it take over like our bindweed(convolvulus)? The yellow daisy, Cybonotus preissianus or Bear's ear is very pretty. What is the classification of your climate? i know Western australia is Mediterranean but yours seems more like ours ayt times which of course cannot be as you do not have the benefit of the Gulf Stream running round the coast.
Bristol is once again calm and dry and ideal for gardening but I will reduce my workload as I am going out to a party tonight.
Marion. The plumcot it is a apricot/plum cross and the peacharine is a peach and nectarine cross. The fruits are very nice.
i hope you can read the above labels. I'm glad I kept them. The Glycine is very small and doesn't take over (at least here where it occurs naturally).
I'm trying to think how our region is classified. I know it's called "dry schlerophyl" type of the kinds of plants that grow naturally here. It's also mountainous ( in Australian terms). Certainly not Mediterranean. It's a long time since I've thought about that. Will dig in some of my old books. I do find that most of the comments in our gardening TV shows, are more relevant to the Hobart growing conditions.
hope you have a good evening!
Of course! I have not seen those for sale here but we do have hybrid berries - mostly blackberries and raspberry hybrids. Thank you for the climate information.
Marion. We're classified as "cool temperate". (Also in another source, sub-alpine), but you'll get the general idea. Strangely though, just over the range which we look at in front of the block, the trees and other plants are very much more rich and almost coastal. That is on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range. There is a national park over on that side called Wadbilliga. There's another nearby called Deua national park. These areas were of great interest to early plant explorers and many new plants were discovered, described and named. Like you, I find this sort of stuff interesting.
will try again to post the Olearia. There were bees with little yellow pollen sacs on their legs moving all over the place.
Yes see them Reminds me of my willow tree last spring when the honeybees descended on it in their thousands. We were marveling at how they could manage to fly they were so laden.