Owl's Garden

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.

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.

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.

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.

Area along driveway.

Before photo of this Tree.
Before area near maple cut.

After we got most of the weedy trees removed.

The start of the spring box.

Stuff ready to fill box and first layer of compost.

The bulb layer.

2nd layer of compost stuff.

4 Thyme to be the between season ground cover.

Blue pots to protect Thyme while raking mulch over top of spring box.
Mulch layer.

Cut tops of blue pots and will stay inplace till Thyme gets bigger.

The after photo.

Going to look amazing in spring

Total bulb count for this box.

190 spring bulbs!!!

35 dutch iris (mixed),
20 daffodil (mixed),
20 earlycheer daffodil,
35 freesia single (mixed),
10 freesia double (mixed),
50 anemone (mixed),
20 tete-a-tete daffodil.

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.

Took a long long walk to a fav garden shop and found myself a “new” Daphne.

Its a cute baby version.

Azalea indica hybrid, Elsa Karga. (red double)

Not sure where it’ll go yet.

Azalea indica hybrid, Dr. Glaser. (red double)

Going to grow/train this in broom bonsai style.

Got my last chance bulbs for my last big spring bulb pot.

“Matai” NZ native tree I pickedup at a local market for $2! bargin.

Guess which leaves belong to what plant/tree.