Owl's Garden

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.

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.

Maple spring box.

Kids corner spring pot.

Front door spring pot.
You can almost start to see the pattern I planted.

First winter Daphne bloom.

New flowers for the river section of garden.
Slowly adding more blue colour low bedding flowers.
“Polyanthus blue shades”

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Sunset this evening after rainbows.

Kids corner.

River pansy looking good.

Going to need more blue flowers in this section to make the water happen faster.

“Amaryllis Hippeastrum. red heart”
My fav fancy bulb.
This 2nd flower stalk is much much taller then 1st from bulb. (old stalk near stick)

closeup of one flower on stalk.

Ballernina poppy.

Peas are growing at last

“coreopsis, fruit punch”
under the red maple tree.

Gold mould of tiny daisy like flowers.
“bidens ferrurifolia, goldmound”

Blue pansy river slowly growing around stones.

“nasturtium”

Shallow bulb pot.

These are going in a soon to be built box around the maple tree along the driveway.
I was going to buy some cheap plastic pots but thought i’ve got enough wood lying round from backyard to turn into a box for them instead.

Kids corner.

Planted some white “Alyssum” around “dr. Glaser, azalea indica”.
Only cost me 50c for 6 small plants.

Planted some “english daisy, pompanette mixed colours” in this gap.

Rest of the garden.

Recycling old fireplace tile floor frames.

“Black adder, flax” is looking quite at home with some “iris” around it.

Fuchsia cutting from old house is growing new leaves.
Hoping it does keep growing cause I loved the flowers.
Not sure which one it is yet till it blooms.

Something to warm you all up this cold weather.

Our new fire.
Much better heat and uses less wood then old built-in Kent.

“Black prince, fuchsia” makes good floating flowers.

View from Maple corner to other end of garden.

Kids corner.

Middle section.

Right section.

Most of garden.

Rosemary carpet growing under the teepee.

“Tibouchina, blue moon”

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Maple tree corner and wild flowers.
Also slowly turning into wild strawberry patch.

Vege/herb patch.
Peas are slowly trying to climb up the teapee..

Iris/flax section.

Kids corner planter looking great.
Starting to find which plants suit it better then others.

Looking from bird post towards rest of garden.

Kids part of the garden has some up’cycled fireplace tile bits for walking on.

Closeups of some fav blooms.

scabiosa ‘crimson clouds’

Black prince fuchsia.

gaillardia grandiflora ‘goblin’

First pot of spring bulbs growing so tall thought I’d better ad some “frames” to stop them falling over.

?? not sure the name.

“schizocentron, ‘spanish shawl’

mini crimson ‘mandevilla’

Kids daffy’s peeking out.

Guard dog of the garden.
warning all bees, birds and stupid cats off the garden.. the latter is great but others not so.

Birthday presents from far far away lands.
waterproof kneeing pillow.

Plant stake tags from same lovely person.
“Salvia Victoria Blue” (at night)

raspberry.

“Alyssum” in the center to keep it pretty between seasons.

with these in layers.

Market art for kids corner.

Lots of healthy growth on lemon tree.
Even another 1/3 of tree is starting to shoot growth.

Hoping the front left of tree starts to show growth soon.
It was super unhealthy so it got a big haircut.