This is the gravel pathway between the house and garage where we grow plants in pots and tubs and also raise new cuttings.
We didn't know that snapdragons could be grown as perennials. We trim each stem, when it has finished flowering, to just below the seedheads, and leave the plant alone through Winter.
Dad has created a new flowerbed at the side of the water tanks. We are planting hydrangeas, foxgloves and aquilegia here as it is quite shady under the fruit trees.
This flower bed now joins the existing bed where the arctotis and cineraria grow.
And the flowerbed continues around one of the lime trees to where we have planted white irises and phlomis.
Dad has created a new flowerbed at the side of the water tanks. We are planting hydrangeas, foxgloves and aquilegia here as it is quite shady under the fruit trees.
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Dad is going to widen the iris bed and I have ordered more irises in different colours to go here. They will be arriving in late January, so there is plenty of time to prepare.
The abutilons that we planted at the far corner of the garden are growing well, and the self-seeded white foxgloves are much taller than me now!
The orange clivia put on a good show this year. I am thinking of maybe getting a yellow-flowered one to put in another shady spot, next to the garden shed, under the plum tree.
I hope that this post finds you well. Wishing you a lovely weekend.
Hugs, Rose xxx
Your garden looks terrific. It's strange to me, but wonderful, to see plants we have to grow indoors thriving outside. We put our clivias outside for their summer holiday, but they wouldn't like the cold here.
ReplyDeleteHi Janice, Thankyou :o) I too found it strange seeing some houseplants growing outdoors when we came to New Zealand. They grow so big outside. The clivia grows under our trees in a sheltered spot to stop it from getting sunburnt in Summer and to protect it from the wind. Hugs, Rose xxx
DeleteWhat a beautiful garden you and your dad have. That clematis is gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteHi Margaret, thank you very much :o) The clematis was at its best this year. I have never seen so many flowers on it all at once. Maybe it did so well because dad was talking about planting it in the garden lol. It has now finished flowering, and I have deadheaded it and will give it another good feed. I hope that you are having a great week, Hugs, Rose xxx
DeleteHow lovely to see your summery garden. Ours is looking so much more wintery now. We have a clivia but as an indoor pot plant. Didn’t realise it would be happy outside. So much colour to enjoy. Have a good weekend. B x
ReplyDeleteHi Barbara, thank you, I love the garden at this time of year :o). I don't know how long the flowering will last going into Summer, most of the plants I have prefer the cooler Spring weather with quite a bit of rain. I am trying to find plants now that will flower in Summer without too much watering, because we rely on rainwater collection from our roof for water. I have planted some penstemon which looks promising, it already has some buds on it. I also have red monarda, but I haven't planted it yet. The monarda looks like spider mites have got to it. It must have had mites on it when I bought it but didn't notice at the time.
DeleteIt is wonderful that you can grow clivia indoors to enjoy the flowers. Have you tried growing amaryllis inside too?
I hope that you are having a great week. Hugs, Rose xxx
Lovely to se all flower and all the green! We are heading for FROST and WINTER here now...
ReplyDeleteLove from Titti
Hi Titti, in one and a half weeks it will be Summer here! I think it will be very hot because the days are already reaching 25 C in the house. The Spring temperatures are my favourite, not too hot and not too cold. I am looking forward to seeing your frosty Winter photographs. It must be so lovely having Christmas in Winter in Sweden. Oh, and talking about Christmas, I have just discovered a shop called "Safka" which is now selling Scandinavian and European Christmas treats. I ordered chocolates, biscuits and marzipan sweets from them. (I am really looking forward to Christmas). Hugs from Rose xxx
DeleteOh it's all soooo lovely! Truly, so, so pretty. I love snapdragons...they'e an annual here though. I bought a mandevilla this past summer, and I hated to lose it in the winter, so I brought it inside. I'm reading it will overwinter, but we'll see...I hope so. I have to ask about the water tanks...that's not something I see around me. While in big cities there are huge tanks several hundred feet high so that homes and business have water pressure, does each home have one there? We have a well and pump that brings water from underground...that's the usual site here in rural areas. Always so much to learn...love seeing what's happening in your part of this world!
ReplyDeleteHi Mary, Thank you so much! I don't know if our mandevilla will survive the very few light Winter frosts that we get. The frosts are usually melted by early morning so the mandevilla may be ok. I might take some cuttings as a safeguard. Time will tell.
DeleteWe live in a rural area so have no town water supply. We need to collect rainwater from our roof and store it in 2 x 3000 litre water tanks in our garden. The water is filtered through a carbon filter, then a 20 micron filter and then a UV lamp to kill any germs. We have a water pump to pump the water to the house. The water pressure is great, just like town water, except we have no horrible chemicals. Each house in rural areas has 1 or 2 water tanks, or they have bore water pumped up from below ground. At our last house we had only 1 water tank and had to be very careful with water usage. Sometimes we ran out of water and had to wait for a water tanker to come and fill out water tank up again. So far at our new house we haven't had any trouble with water shortage.
I always wondered what those high towers were for in the USA with town names written on them lol. We don't have towers like that here in NZ. You have taught me something new :o) I hope that you are having a lovely week so far. Hugs, Rose xxx
Your garden looks amazing! Such an abundance of colour. I have a couple of red amaryllis in pots in my garden, but they are no way near flowering yet.
ReplyDeleteHi, thank you. The red amaryllis are my favourite ones. Mine are past their best now, there are only a few flowers left because of heavy rain. When do your amaryllis usually start to flower?
DeleteI hope that you have a good weekend. Hugs, Rose xxx