Saturday, June 15, 2019

Around the Garden

What is happening in the winter garden?

The salvias across the front of the house have really filled out this garden bed this year:
One of those flowers close up:
Every morning I watch the spinebills having their breakfast in these salvias. I haven't managed to photograph one this year, but there's a photo from last year here. They don't only have breakfast here, they come back several times through the day to get a nectar meal.

Another smaller salvia elsewhere in the garden has had most of its flowers removed by crimson rosellas:

The bees have found the tree dahlias, and visit them when it is not too cold to fly:
Very hard to see, but there is a bee in that flower on the left.

In the green house, one of the orchids is sending up a couple of flower spikes:
I don't know if the ants are a problem or not.

The flower bracts on this leucodendron blend into the big rusty ball:


A teeny-tiny geranium:


And finally, the zygocactus which used to flower for my birthday in the city, is starting to open a few weeks late:



3 comments:

Julierose said...

You have lovely gardens...my tiger lilies are tightly
budded still...slow spring with all the rain, cold winds and generally awful weather. At least today it was sunny and mild--and tomorrow they've said it would be nice, too..but I am not so confident in the reports lately...we always seem to get cloudy low skies lately...hugs, Julierose

Jeanette said...

Finding colour in winter may be a challenge, but well worth it. Love the leucodtendron.
Regarding the ants, I hope they aren't farming aphids.

Sue SA said...

So much colour and variety blooming in your garden for winter! I havent ventured out into the garden much, too many frosty mornings!