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Sunflowers starting to bud.
Now almost taller then bird house post.
Little friends enjoying our swan plant garden.
First potatoes from garden.
Purple beans and single pea.
Firewood shelter part way done.
Brand new 2013 Daphne release!!!!
Daphne ” sweet amethyst “.
H 1m W 1.2m
full sun/part shade.
Glad I spotted this for my collection.
The larger plants instore had awesome purple flowers.
But I went budget and got a baby plant on it’s way to a pompom training shape.
Brought from M10
Acmadenia, star blush.
Not quite sure where it’s going yet…
crocus species, sunkist
Cornfower.
Maple spring bulb box.
daffodil’s, tete-a-tete daffodil’s and Early cheer daffodil’s
Early cheer daffodil
Anemone.
Random flower out the back.
If you know the name please facebook me.
helleborus, princess rosemary
Black prince, fuchsia.
“Anigozanthos, bush flirtation”
In the setting sunlight.
Don’t remember these hiding in my tall bulb pot.
New fresh growth on this Higo Iris.
Bargain find on my plant spree this week.
Girls love this bird/seed house hanging in the lemon tree.
2 Fuchsias needed to move.
WC Fuchsia moved to near the playhouse fence.
M Fuchsia moved too
Princess Rosemary “Helleborus”
Red lantern (abutilon) is growing very well and full of blooms now.
Yellow lantern (abutilon) seems to want to be shorter then the Red.
“manuka, letospermum, wiri kerry”
Casting a shadow on the pot in the morning sun.
“clamatis, H.F. Young”
Spring growth on the climber.
Earlycheer,
Baby daffy.
Anemone bud in maple spring box.
Rain on spring buds.
More seedlings popping up.
Baby fuchsias in bigger pots starting to train all 4 into pompom trees.
Large pot is random summer bulbs.
2 new Salvia’s for my collection.
“salvia, s. jamensis ‘la siesta’ ” (pink)
“salvia, blue ribbon” (blue)
Moved ” salvia, blaze ” from River section to sit near the new pink above and the blue i’ve put in its place.
Kids Daffy pot,
“tete-a-tete daffodil”
“primrose, marie crousse”
“polyanthus, blue shades”
Indoor pot.
“Amaryllis Hippeastrum”
The odd one out.
“heliotropium, cherry pie”
Love the Pink “candy bells, fushcia” and Blue “veronica oxford blue”
“cineraria”
“Daphne”
——— Out the front ——–
Moved from the back had a few offshoots that needed rehoming.
“Sedum spectabile ‘Brilliant’ (syn. Hylotelephium spectabile)”
“Tulips”
Forgot I had some out there.
Sort of a “earlycheer daffodil” ?
“anemone” bunch.
The hype before the big bloom…..
Most of the garden from the backdoor.
Kids corner.
Looking into Kids side of garden (left of whole garden)
Pretty section..
From iris/flax section towards kids side of garden and pretty garden sections.
Flax and iris section.
Closeup of section.
Lemon tree and “Isabelle’s” section.
2/3 of lemon tree is growing back from its big hair cut.
Blue river section.
Vege and herb section.
Herbs have been cut back and carrots slowly growing.
Peas didn’t want to do much so far 
Looking towards rest of garden from Maple corner.
Maple corner.
Little pink to tease us about spring.
First Daffy bud in front maple spring box.
Early cheer Daffy.
Pink out the front.
“Polyanthus” ?
Yellow.
stock.
Cornflower “blue”.
New tree.
“Bay leaf tree” ( Laurua Nobilis )
To be trained into a pompom shape tree.
“Pine nut” tree. ( Pinus Pinea )
to be trained into bonsai.
Kids baby tete-a-tet daffys.
Now we can see the colour they will be.
“cineraria”
Looks like something is eating the blue part
“polyanthus, blue shades”
“kowhai, sophora microphylla dragons gold” NZ native.
Some reason it only wants to flower at the bottom.
My shallow spring bowl pot.
iris, reticulata, fiesta mixed
polyanthus, blue shades
Starting to bloom already.
Purple blooms going crazy.
“Nemesia, misty blue”
Brachycome, multifida.
primrose, marie crousse
starting to bloom.
cineraria,
Lots of buds ready to explode.
heliotropium, cherry pie
scabiosa caucasica
My new Daphne.
“rock Daphne, heavenly scented(daphne cneorum)”
“Hebe. wiri gem”
NZ native.
Planted behind the big silky Oak.
“regent, Hardenbergia violacea”
Planted behind the Manuka.
End of the river section of garden.
“Borago officinalis” boroge.
Is regrowing at the end of river.
I had pulled out the old plants from elsewhere from the garden and put here to hopefully self-seed which it did 
Lobelia, pansy and Polyanthus all planted and growing well.
Can’t wait to see them all in bloom.
Bonsai
“candy bells fuchsia” in its pot at last and wires are off.
The plaited trunk looks great so far.
Top mop bit.
whole tree.
Rosemary attempt 2.
(first one died)
Its amazing the different rates bulbs pop up.
and over top view.
Lantern tree in its new pot.
“abutilon megapotamicum, dwarf chinese lantern”
Baby Daphne in new pot.
“Eternal fragrance, Daphne transtlantica”
I have this need to keep getting new plants and somehow fitting them into the garden later….
More Blue for the “river” section of garden.
Slowly putting more blue so it’ll look like this river with stepping stones.
” Lobelia, upright dark blue”
“regent, Hardenbergia violacea”
Love the way the flowers look like mini faces.
“Hebe. wiri gem”
NZ native.
“Iresine, ruby glow”
(kids choice and will go in their section of the garden)
“verbena, fire chief”
It had this label on it too.
“Fancy that, chrysanthemum”
The first Daphnne in full bloom in the garden.
