January
2012
A Whole New Year
Once again the New South
Wales Christmas Bush puts on a wonderful display of
deep pink bracts which remain for many weeks
And the persoonia pinifolia,
which began flowering at the bottom of the garden
in early December, looks as if will also be with us for a long time
if all those opening florets have to work their way down the stems
The wet weather doesn't
please the eremophilas one little bit, with the grey leaf forms
often succumbing to mildew problems. However this one has done particularly
well
in spite of other plants in the same bed turning up their toes!
The munching from the Christmas
Day fallen tree is making the beginnings
of a promising compost for the garden in a few months time.
The various trunks of the
casuarinas and alocasuarinas are all so beautiful
but I'm still to find anyone who can actually name them for me
The fluffy acacia boormanii
which I planted on the corner of the house
to protect the tree ferns from the summer morning sun are
slowly being pushed out of the way by the fast growing ferns
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