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September Foliage Follow up

Post author By Christine
Post date September 17, 2011
6 Comments on September Foliage Follow up

I took some time out today to take some photographs of the foliage in the garden to link up with Pam at Diggings for Foliage Follow Up. “Foliage Follow Up” is a monthly gardening meme where Pam and other garden bloggers showcase the beauty of foliage in their gardens on the 16th of the month. Please join Hercules and I as we stroll through the garden. It’s not just the flowers that smell good … according to Hercules!

[one_half]Welcome! Join us as we stroll the garden[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Festuca Glauca shines[/one_half_last]

[one_half]New growth on Nandina pygmaea[/one_half]

[one_half_last]The sun kisses Carex evergold[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Lovely new growth on Star Jasmine[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Lovely variegation on the Pandorea “Charisma”[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Silver-hued Helichrysum petiolare[/one_half]

[one_half_last]New growth is pink on the Chameleon plant[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Moving on … What else should we show?[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Cape Thatching Reed looks great[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Beautiful as a contrast (in the Veg patch)[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Brightening up a dark corner[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Another contrast in a dark space[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Acorus gramineus ‘Variegata’ – a favourite[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Love the contrast of the dark leaves[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Sun kissed dark foliage of Nandina[/one_half_last]

[one_half]Bright green Lavender dentata[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Thats all we have to show today! Bye bye![/one_half_last]

Thank you for joining Hercules and I on our Foliage Exploration! We hope you’ll join us again next month. For now we wish you …

Happy Gardening
xxx

Tags foliage, foliage follow up, hercules, leaves

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Stopping to smell the flowers

Post author By Christine
Post date June 18, 2011
4 Comments on Stopping to smell the flowers

I did a walk about the garden this morning to access and photograph the storm damage as well as the damage to the back garden after the plumbers redid the french drain. The photographs I took are all so bleak and unattractive that they have been relegated to a “before” file – no brag-worthy photos today unfortunately. Now usually Dexter (the 65 kg Rottweiler) accompanies me when I’m in the garden and my sweet little kitty stays well away, but as Dexter was away on a play-date today, Hercules got to enjoy gardening time with me without being harassed by his ‘big brother’.

I thought I would share my photos of him – he absolutely loves spending time in the garden with me and follows me around, stopping to smell the flowers, digging when I dig, tip-toeing around in the grass. Its too cute! Here he is smelling the potato bush.

[one_half]Stopping to smell the flowers[/one_half]

[one_half_last]This one smells good![/one_half_last]

And then there is a lot flowering again. We have flowering Camellias all over the place, lots of red berries on the Nandinas, lush growth after the rains … and as I’ve keep being told by my fellow garden-bloggers, I really have nothing to complain about (even if my back garden looks a bit like a dump site right now). I am blessed to have a lot of prettyness going on in the garden right now, even though its the middle of winter.

[one_half]Camellias and Nandina berries[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Iceberg flowering again[/one_half_last]

Happy Gardening
xxx

Tags camellias, flowers, hercules, iceberg roses, nandina

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Front Garden

I’m enjoying one of the beds in my front garden a lot. To a seasoned gardener I’m sure its nothing special, and I know it needs work in terms of the Gardenias not performing at their best (and my newly planted “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” still underperforming), but I’m loving the little dianthus annuals I planted because they’ve added some colour to the blanks spaces while we wait for the new plants to establish themselves. The Plectranthus madagacariens is absolutely thriving and I have to keep cutting it back so it doesn’t take over completely. The wild iris plants are coming along beautifully.

Hercules loves this spot in the garden too … He likes to sit on the bench and watch me when I’m busy in the front garden. He loves to sniff the plants and is so light of foot that he doesn’t damage anything … the perfect little garden companion!

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Dianthus and bunny

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Gardening companion

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