The Garden in July

Here's what's happening in the mid-winter garden.

Cinnamon Snow hellebore:

The other hellebores have buds, but no open flowers yet.

Bergenia looking very tatty:

But can you see the bee? That was surprising. Our top temperature today was 11.4C, which felt almost spring-like after a few days of 7's and 8's.

Red-hot pokers in the foreground, leucadendrons in the background:

Leafless wattle, Acacia aphylla, more flowers than last month, but still many buds to open.

Correa "Gwen":

The lion's ear, Leonotis leonurus flowered earlier in the year, but seems to be starting again:

This salvia is very late to the party, just starting to bloom now:

It isn't the latest, though. There is another one that hasn't even got buds. Perhaps our not-very-hot summer is to blame. Other plants that didn't flower this year include the normally autumn-flowering Japanese anemones, and some sedums.

Yellow daisy with buds and a sprinkling of flowers:

White daisy:

Thryptomene:

Not a flower, a kookaburra:

The kookaburras follow us around whenever we are in the garden, hoping we will turn up something for them to eat.

Phygelius aequalis "Yellow trumpet":

Crimson rosellas have been busy pulling the flowers off my bethel sage:

Lots of flowers and buds on the rosemary-leafed grevilleas:

 This delicate flower is on a very prickly hakea, which I think is Hakea lissocarpha:

Its tag is probably somewhere down under the prickles. But I think we bought this after seeing it in flower at the Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary a few years ago. 

Viburnum tinus:

White camellia:

Abutilon flower and buds:

Just about the last of the penstemons, with some euphorbias starting to flower in the background:

Zygocactus:

Hebe:

Flowering quince:

And last but not least, cyclamen:

The end!