Kids area looking much better now these baskets are up!
Nice pretty pink flower.
Forgot its name..
Little something we pickedup from the cultural market in town today.
Leftover scraps of wood from garden made into a seat/stool/table/house depends what kids are using it for.
Finally got this rocking horse hung up for kids.
Wood for door for playhouse.
Playhouse and kids corner is looking good.
Chives are slowly growing.
tree.. no idea its name???
next to maple.
another unknown tree.
I believe its a NZ native of some sort.
another NZ native.
the “leaves” are tiny and hook onto everything.
The whole garde from deck/house.
sunflower and rosemary.
Viola’s
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?? Coreopsis
orange pretty bloom. ????
playhouse blooms
birdhouse shadow
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flowers we found on our walk with dog to river.
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?? Amaranthus Red Spike
Maple corner.
Almost hard to see the new plants between the sunflower stalks and wild flowers.
Left,
kowhai, sophora microphylla dragons gold, H 1.5m W 1.2m nz native (beside maple)
Middle,
Tibouchina organesis “blue moon”
H 1.5m W 1.5m (near maple)
Right,
plagianthus regius, (ribbonwood)
NZ native H 5m W 2m, semi decidous (next to kowhai along fence inline with maple)
new plants in some tabs have a nosy bottom of each tab has newest plants.
New flax at the back.
phormium cookianum, black adder
flax, nz native, H 1.5m W 1.5m
So much colour 
This what you get…
(If you can name them please message me.)
The voila’s are my youngest fav flowers in the garden.
Teepee is a hit with the kids too.
Pre-seed cull.
sunflower seed dry rack in garage.
after cull.
planted soem Hollyhock seedlings along fence to replace sunflowers.
Will scatter more tall flowers along edge soon for winter.
sunflower from the 2nd scatter.
What is this???
Had to stake it.
What is this tree?? shrub???
Some of my fav blooms in garden at the moment.
Salvia, Blue angel
bougainvillea, jazzi
anigozanthos, bush flirtation
fat and skinny bees on a small sunflower.
shifted the non iris/flax plants and added more bark off firewood pile.
pretty section also moved few plants to another section.
randomly growing tomatoes.
purple basil
vege section.
kids section.
lots of seedlings of random picked seed flower packets are popping up.
kids pot garden is growing.
These half rounds came from a side un-used garden bed out the front.
The old bed out from has trees in it and only 1 of 5 are staying so this border isn’t needed there anymore.
Out the front has huge plans including covered deck and shifting front door plus making a proper driveway to garage on side of house.
The dumping section for sunflower stalks, grass cuttings and other small trimmings
The front driveway old garden bed only maple to remain rest have to go to improve light and make room for proper driveway.
Maple will have a mulch circle breaking up new driveway and have bulbs planted in rings of heights around trunk of tree.
The iris and flax type plant section now has half rounds to mark the section.
Also marks out the “pretty” garden section from the kids garden in the area beside playhouse/deck.
Looking down along garden from playhouse.
What are these seedlings?
pretty blue flower almost like a bluebell sort.
?? it had climbing curls on stalk, very large fury/spiky leaves.
???
Hollyhocks the tall ones,
I’ve planted these under the sunflowers to replace them as they go to seed soon.
And current sunflower view.
Been slowly finding names for random flowers/plants in garden.
“Datura_stramonium” ( highly toxic ) !!!
——- this plant has now been removed from the garden.—–
thankfully I finally found the name for this random flower.
I did love its shape but can’t have such toxic plants in garden around kids and dog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium
came out of a wild flower/cottage garden seed packet.
One of my kids loves this plant we walk past most days but sadly it too is very toxic so we won’t be buying/planting into garden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantana
If you know of similar flower pattern/shape we could place instead we’d love to hear about it.
Also if you notice in any of photos on this blog that could be harmful for dogs/kids please let me know.
I’ve spent the afternoon sorting plants into new tabs above on this blog for easy finding.
Please have a nosy at my what is it section I’d love to name everything in the garden.
Under the sunflowers.
Wild flowers, cosmos? cornflowers, voila’s.. and a fuchsia,
Long leaf seedling is “coreopsis”sunburst”” rounder leaf seedling is “nasturtium”.
Left side of back garden near playhouse and under the silky oak.
and the rest of that section.
Lots of seedlings are now popping up from our scattering of seeds.
one of the kids pot a single ballerina poppy seed in this small pot.
and
so many are in full flower.
