September in our garden

This post will be primarily about the things that we are planting in our garden  - perhaps gardens since the flowering bits and the edible bits are largely separate. Other posts will deal with the entities which fly over or run/crawl through the area.

The first peach blossom is emerging (just as the ornamental Prunus start to run out of steam).

The daffodils are really getting going, with more bizarre species than the old favourite King Alfred beginning to appear.  This is especially in the beds visible from our kitchen windows.

Q: What is more impressive than a Hellebore?

A: Lots of Hellebores!

The first blossom has appearing on fruiting (as opposed to ornamental) plum trees.

This shows the scene from the kitchen window.  Peach blossom high, daffodils low.

The bunch of daffs near the peach tree are particularly attractive at present, with a good variety of forms:

Also in this part of the garden (near the bird bath) is a Grevillea which we planted soon after arriving. It is finally doing the right thing, flowerwise, which may help explain the frequency with which we are seeing Eastern Spinebills in the area.

 The track to the top of the property runs behind this bit of the garden.  It is bordered by a hedge of Ovens Wattles: (Acacia pravissima).  It is not local to this area but at this time of year makes a spectacular show:

A little bit up this track is a small Red Stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha).  Normally this is a rtaher ordinary tree with boring buds and spent capsules.

 However today I noticed a new capsulewith a very suave red cap.

Frances has acquired some Euphorbias and put them in the garden.  My previous dealing with this genus was huge trees - looking like bizarre cactus - growing on a coral atoll off Dar es Salaam.  These are quite small  but, now they are flowering, quite exquisite.

I should point out that these flowers are about 20mm across!


My final image on this post is of the catkins of some willows growing towards the creek.  These are probably anathema to many folk but the local bees are getting stuck right in and the flowers are vert attractive in a greenish sort of way.