The Garden in May

This is my monthly record for myself of what is happening in the garden. So be warned, there's lots of flowers ahead, and feel free to skip over it.

Here's a cheerful sight:

The tree dahlia has started flowering! We have had one night of temperatures below freezing, but most of the garden hasn't minded. 

The daylilies have not flowered much this year, mainly because they are apparently very tasty to wallabies. But with a fence around them now the occasional flower is appearing:

Roses are also very tasty to wallabies, so several of the bushes have been stripped of buds and leaves. Those closest to the house have managed to bloom a bit:

Penstemons just about finished:

Thryptomene covered in flowers:

A few gazanias out:

Hakea "Burrendong Beauty" covered in flowers:

That touch of red in the background is one of the crepe myrtles being autumnal.

Lavender:

Rosemary, with a bee:

Did you know that rosemary has become a salvia? It is Salvia rosmarinus now.

But the fact that I have posted a picture of one salvia, won't stop me adding this one:

This little seat is now surrounded by the Bethel sage. The flowers are visited regularly through the day by spinebills (a nectar-eating bird).

Camellia:

Abutilon:

These that I need to go and check the label on but it is dark outside now:

Leonotis just getting started:

Hebe:

This crassula, which I have recently discovered can get much redder than this if it gets more sun:

So I have potted some pieces that the crimson rosellas helpfully snipped off, and will see how red they get inside a sunny window.

Bromeliads, cyclamens, echeverias, correas, eremophilas, all have flowers but I either forgot to photograph them, did photograph them but the photos weren't great, or just decided that this is enough for now.

To finish this post, bonus flowers purchased this afternoon from the Bunnings markdown section. Beautifully clove-scented dianthus at under half price: