Owl's Garden


Spring… and the start of things happening out the front.
September 7, 2013, 7:56 pm
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Before.
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During…
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The start of rehoming plants from the back.
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Sneky plant taking-over both sides of front house garden.
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Anemone
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Tulip
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Blossom tree.
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No idea what this is.
Its outside my local supermarket.
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Woof.
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???
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Strawberry blossoms.
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Felicia amelloides, Blue Marguerite
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????
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Hedgehog
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anigozanthos, bush fantasy
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Pink and purple flowers in the kids corner.
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fairy statice
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Random mushrooms.
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Daphne.
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Remember to Please vote on the garden comp on facebook.



New Daphne for 2013 !!!!
August 31, 2013, 9:13 pm
Filed under: bulbs,flowers,plants

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
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Acmadenia, star blush.
Not quite sure where it’s going yet…
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crocus species, sunkist
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Cornfower.
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Maple spring bulb box.
daffodil’s, tete-a-tete daffodil’s and Early cheer daffodil’s
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Early cheer daffodil
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Anemone.
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Random flower out the back.
If you know the name please facebook me.
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helleborus, princess rosemary
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Black prince, fuchsia.
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All the plants coming back to life.
August 24, 2013, 9:36 pm
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Forgot What was in this bulb pot….
Hyacinth.
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Life cycle of a Scabiosa Blue bloom
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Maple spring box in full bloom… almost…
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Another awesome Daffy.
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daphne odora, var. leucantha
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The start of the potato patch.
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River section looking blue.
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Newest member of the river section.
“myosotidium hortensia”
NZ native, Chatham Island Forget-Me-Not.
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Blue marguerite, felicia amelloides.
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Calendula
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cape, gooseberry
Coming back to life.
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coreopsis, fruit punch
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tibouchina organensis, blue moon
Love the new spring growth.
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Snap into Spring (Oderings garden comp).
Please vote for my “Iris and flax garden” section Photo.
Prize would help the garden be even better and awesome (click).



Birds in the garden
August 20, 2013, 11:43 am
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I’ve spotted 3 small types of birds that visit.
grey ish one, few browns one and a yellow coloured type.
If you know what they are please message on faceboook.

Testing new bird house.
Yellow tone bird visited this one alot.
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The old one but #1 fav so far.
They love popping up the top.
The grey and brown small birds love this spot.
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Snap into Spring (Oderings garden comp).
Please vote for my “Iris and flax garden” section Photo.
Prize would help the garden be even better and awesome (click).



No I don’t have to many plants, there is always room for more….
August 17, 2013, 5:08 pm
Filed under: bulbs,climber,flax section,flowers,iris

Snap into Spring (Oderings garden comp).
Please vote for my “Iris and flax garden” section Photo.
Prize would help the garden be even better and awesome (click).

“Anigozanthos, bush flirtation”
In the setting sunlight.
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Don’t remember these hiding in my tall bulb pot.
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New fresh growth on this Higo Iris.
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Bargain find on my plant spree this week.
Girls love this bird/seed house hanging in the lemon tree.
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2 Fuchsias needed to move.
WC Fuchsia moved to near the playhouse fence.
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M Fuchsia moved too
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Princess Rosemary “Helleborus”
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Red lantern (abutilon) is growing very well and full of blooms now.
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Yellow lantern (abutilon) seems to want to be shorter then the Red.
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“manuka, letospermum, wiri kerry”
Casting a shadow on the pot in the morning sun.
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“clamatis, H.F. Young”
Spring growth on the climber.
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Earlycheer,
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Baby daffy.
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Anemone bud in maple spring box.
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Rain on spring buds.
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More seedlings popping up.
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Baby fuchsias in bigger pots starting to train all 4 into pompom trees.
Large pot is random summer bulbs.
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Seedlings
August 13, 2013, 10:01 pm
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Snap into Spring (Oderings garden comp).
Please vote for my “Iris and flax garden” section Photo.
Prize would help the garden be even better and awesome (click).

Basil and Tomatos July 31st seeds planted.
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Flowers and beans/peas.
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New plants going into garden soon.
Cheery tomatos.
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Chamomile German
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Bressingham purple, polemonium yezoense
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Leptospermum ‘wiri kerry’, manuka.
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4 new fuchsia’s for the garden.
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Everyone needs a princess in the garden.
Helleborus, princess rosemary.
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My pink Daphne’s in bud.
“daphne odora, leucantha”
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New Bonsai tree to play with.
“juniper procumbens nana”
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Bonsai in training tree
Sophora microphila, NZ native Kowhai.
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Finally Grevillea Aussie Crawl has Bloomed!
August 10, 2013, 4:31 pm
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“grevillea aussie crawl”
(Aus native)
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“daphne odora, var. leucantha”
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“cineraria”
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“Daphne”
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“Daffodil’s”
In the front spring maple box.
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New plants and great colour starting to show off for all the world to see.
August 7, 2013, 1:18 pm
Filed under: bulbs,flowers,kids area,plants,River Section

2 new Salvia’s for my collection.

“salvia, s. jamensis ‘la siesta’ ” (pink)
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“salvia, blue ribbon” (blue)
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Moved ” salvia, blaze ” from River section to sit near the new pink above and the blue i’ve put in its place.
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Kids Daffy pot,
“tete-a-tete daffodil”
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“primrose, marie crousse”
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“polyanthus, blue shades”
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Indoor pot.
“Amaryllis Hippeastrum”
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The odd one out.
“heliotropium, cherry pie”
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Love the Pink “candy bells, fushcia” and Blue “veronica oxford blue”
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“cineraria”
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“Daphne”
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——— Out the front ——–
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Moved from the back had a few offshoots that needed rehoming.
“Sedum spectabile ‘Brilliant’ (syn. Hylotelephium spectabile)”
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“Tulips”
Forgot I had some out there.
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Sort of a “earlycheer daffodil” ?
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“anemone” bunch.
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August pre spring mass garden photos.

The hype before the big bloom…..

Most of the garden from the backdoor.
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Kids corner.
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Looking into Kids side of garden (left of whole garden)
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Pretty section..
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From iris/flax section towards kids side of garden and pretty garden sections.
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Flax and iris section.
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Closeup of section.
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Lemon tree and “Isabelle’s” section.
2/3 of lemon tree is growing back from its big hair cut.
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Blue river section.
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Vege and herb section.
Herbs have been cut back and carrots slowly growing.
Peas didn’t want to do much so far :(
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Looking towards rest of garden from Maple corner.
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Maple corner.
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Little pink to tease us about spring.
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Spring is trying to arrive…
July 31, 2013, 10:51 am
Filed under: bulbs,flowers,kids area

First Daffy bud in front maple spring box.
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Early cheer Daffy.
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Pink out the front.
“Polyanthus” ?
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Yellow.
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stock.
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Cornflower “blue”.
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New tree.
“Bay leaf tree” ( Laurua Nobilis )
To be trained into a pompom shape tree.
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“Pine nut” tree. ( Pinus Pinea )
to be trained into bonsai.
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Kids baby tete-a-tet daffys.
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Now we can see the colour they will be.
“cineraria”
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Looks like something is eating the blue part :(
“polyanthus, blue shades”
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“kowhai, sophora microphylla dragons gold” NZ native.
Some reason it only wants to flower at the bottom.
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