The Garden in February

I started taking flower photos yesterday, but didn't get all the way round the garden. The photos in bright sunshine were taken yesterday. Today is more overcast, which is why the rest of the photos are in more gentle light. 

Honeysuckle:

 

Parrot's beak (Lotus berthelotii):

 The wisteria has a few unexpected summer flowers:

When I took these photos yesterday, there were several waterlily flowers open in the fish pond. But I managed to mess up the only photo I took:

And today when I tried to get a better one, there are no open flowers.

Two of the crepe myrtles are flowering, and both of them are this colour:

One of the others has buds, so maybe it will be in flower next month. The remaining two don't look like they will flower this year.

Most of the roses are not in flower at the moment, but there is a bloom here and there:

This is the annual bed late yesterday:

And here are some of the individual flowers photographed today in less harsh light.

Zinnia:

Foxglove:

I love the colours of this delphinium:

Nigella:

Cosmos:

Amazing almost black hollyhock:

 

Phygelius aequalis "Yellow trumpet" is lucky to still have flowers:

I watched a couple of crimson rosellas biting off the flowers to get at the nectar recently.

Fuchsia:

A newish buddleia, with lots of buds coming:

Alstromeria:

Gazanias:

I missed a few. There are pelargoniums, salvias, and penstemons with flowers that I didn't photograph. I forgot to check if there were any abutilons. I couldn't find any open dahlias, although some of them have been flowering over the last week or two. But I did find this Australian Garden Mantis in the lavender:

That's it for February. I hope by March the march flies will be gone and I can spend more time in the garden uninterrupted. (That linked article talks about them being a problem at the beach, but there are more march flies here than I have ever experienced anywhere else.)