Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Garden in August

Spring is on the horizon.

Spring stars:

Hyacinth:

 

Cyclamen not quite in focus but it is too late to go out and re-take the photo:


Cymbidium orchid:

 

Euphorbias:

Camellia:

The picture above is Viburnum tinus, but blogger won't let me type between it and the camellia.

Sweet little daffodils:

Just a few of the full-sized daffodils are open so far:

 

Rosemary:

Jonquils:

Red hot pokers:

 

Pigface:

Hellebores:

Bergenia - and a bee!

 

Thryptomene:

And for some reason the rest of these photos are in the opposite order from what I tried to load them in. 

This wattle:

Leucadendron:

My "Limelight" protea has 7 or 8 flowers forming this year! This one is the closest to opening:

 

This not-quite-in-focus purple-not-blue anemone is last, but was meant to be further up near the bergenia, because that is where it is actually growing.



There are a few other flowers I didn't photograph - the abutilons and hebes which are always in flower, and the first of the dianthus which I did photograph but the photo was terrible. And I discovered later that the first of the almond blossoms has opened. I'll have to go and look at that in daylight tomorrow.




5 comments:

Jeanette said...

Lovely to see winter sun on your flowers. Back to gloom and doom today.

Julierose said...

Strange to think of you moving into Spring blooms and seeing our own flowers beginning to fade away. Beautiful photos...such lovely colors...
thanks for sharing hugs, Julierose

jacaranda said...

Beautiful colours heading towards spring, only a few weeks away till the flowers are in abundance.

ButterZ said...

Such beautiful colours

Pamela said...

Amazing! I would feel so happy being able to see so many colorful flowers all year round.