The Garden in October

I took these photos on 15th October, but I'm actually writing the blog post much later.

The day was grey and wet, as was much of October. We went to look at Lal Lal Falls to see how much water was there after all the rain. I took a small number of garden photos between the house and the car:

The tulips have been bashed around by the rain, but these pinky ones are still not finished:

Ajuga:

A terrible photo of what I think was the first rugosa rose for the year:

Clivea:

 

At the Falls there were a lot of people, and a lot of water:

The sun even peeked through for a moment:

 

Back home again, I took a look around the orchard. I just looked at this photo and thought, was that a peach or a nectarine?

Fortunately I took a photo of its label at the time. It is actually a "Peacherine", a peach/nectarine cross. 

The quince had a few flowers that weren't quite open, and lots of buds:

The is the "Red Love" apple, which has red flesh, red blossom, and red leaves:

A more normal apple, although I don't remember which one:

Next, the Gondwanaland bed. My protea "Limelight" has quite a few flowers this year:

This amazing plant is Acacia denticulosa, known as sandpaper wattle because its leaves are rough like sandpaper. But look at its flowers:

The rain has flattened them a bit, but they are like huge yellow fuzzy caterpillars. And much softer than the leaves!

This grevillea is a ground-cover variety, possibly "Bronze Rambler":

The Digger's Speedwell is beginning to flower, and I can see in the background of this photo that another wattle was flowering, but I don't remember which one and I don't seem to have photographed it on its own:

 

Along the driveway the melianthus buds are just starting to open:

And the Euryops daisy is going strong:

These must be the last of the various daffodil varieties:

These photos were taken at 2pm, which shows you what a grey old day it was. It looks like dusk!

Loropetalum:

Tulbaghia:

Thryptomene:

I was surprised there were any open flowers on the pigface (Carpobrotus), as they normally only open in the sun:

In the back yard, my redbud buds are opening:

And the wisteria is doing its thing. I hope I have a better photo of it somewhere, as it looked fantastic this year. Will have to search my photos.

And maybe lastly, this echium just starting to flower:

With bonus Portuguese millipede.

That's probably not everything, but I am writing this so long afterwards I don't remember what I might have missed on the day. Just glad to have got this blog post done!