SoS – 7/9/19
My six are from here and there, and a bit of this and that this week.
I took most of the pics earlier in the week, knowing a fierce wet weather front was coming our way.
Firstly the anemones.
This is a picture of how they should be growing, and then…
…I seem to have a variant in the selection. I don’t mind. It’s quite fancy.
And my glorious yellow poppy. In a so-called packet of white seeds, I have had an orange and now a chrome yellow. I love both the brights even tho’ they don’t fit my white garden.
My tulips were well on their way on Thursday. Today, as I look at the window, they are fully open in the downpour, bright white.
Some ruffled some with flicked petals like a tutu (viridiflora?).
I found this glorious eucalypt blossom whilst walking the dog. In fact, the white cockatoos were shredding the tree as I watched.
One of a number of clematis (all white and various sorts), beginning to leaf as spring takes hold.
And that’s it from me. Hop over to The Propagator to what everyone else’s Six on Saturday are.
Lovely Prue, Our garden is a bit blowsy and doing I’m doing a lot of hard pruning back this year
Hi Libby. After a bit of rain yesterday and on Friday, you can visibly see everything going into growth spate. It’s a lovely thing after so many months of dry. Be careful with that pruning – men, ladders and saws are not a good combination. I’m glad you are getting in professionals for the tall trees. 😉
Eucalyptus flowers .. what a beauty we don’t have here!
Hi Fred, can you imagine the forty foot high tree covered in the blossoms? That’s why the birds are loving them!
The thing that caught my attention was the white primula behind the tulips, which I feel I should know but can’t put a name to. It looks like P. malacoides, which we wouldn’t be able to grow outdoors here. I rather miss our snow gum, which we took down a few years ago, especially when I see pictures like yours. None of ours birds would be interested in the blooms.
Jim, I think it is malacoides. It’s sold as a winter annual here and I’ve been using the plants for colour for winter for about 20 years. They do really well in our temperate climate and in late spring will be ripped up, composted and summer annuals will be spot-planted in their place.
Th eucalypts of all sorts have lovely blossoms here. And the native birds LOVE the pollen and later the seeds. It’s hard to be angry when they converge on a tree as you know its nature.