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.