The Garden in November

November has less flowers this year than October did. The spring-flowering things are finished, and the summer things are still getting started. 

Here's my tour of the garden, although compared with November last year, the spring flowers have finished much earlier.

One of the hebe varieties is covered in flowers:

Parrot's Beak (Lotus berthelotii) in a hanging basket:

Orange blossom:

Lots of sweet peas:

 

This mesembryanthemum is covered in flowers:

Pink tritonia, just about finished:

Alstroemerias:

This echium is huge:

The flower towers are between 3 and 4m tall.

Daylily:

Surrounded by lamb's ears which are just starting to flower:

 The roses are looking pretty good:

I left it until fairly late in the day to take these photos. My eyes said there was plenty of light, but my camera didn't agree. Flash photo of a kangaroo paw:

 

Rather dark picture of the wirilda, Acacia provincialis:

 

 

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Confession. I got bored writing this post. It is now 29th November. This post has been sitting around for 2 weeks unfinished.  I just didn't feel like taking the time to edit the photos, and finish it. And I wondered if I even wanted to continue the blog.

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Here are some of the rest of the photos I took on the 15th. Many were not usable because it really was too dark so they weren't clearly in focus. But let's get this over and done with so I can stop feeling guilty about the unfinished post.

These echevaria flowers always look plastic:

I think these are common everlastings, Chrysocephalum apiculatum:

Salvia by flash, showing just how late in the day it was (sun setting behind it):

The Buddleja globosa, orange ball bush, looks good even in quite low light:

Euonymus, just because I'm not sure if I have ever posted a photo of it before:

And last of all, this flower which unless you already know you might never guess the identity of:

Would you believe that is an avocado flower?

And a few flowers I didn't get decent pictures of:

Grevillea, eremophila, foxgloves, some other salvias, geraniums, nepeta, lavender, kniphofia, ceanothus... Actually there are probably better photos of all of them in last November's post.