Well I guess you all thought that I left the country!! Well, I did! I travelled to Germany on business and also to visit family. During this time, my hubby stayed home and said that the weather was cold, wet, very wet and miserable!! I had a fabulous trip and took lots of photos, so I will have to do a special post on my trip. My garden looks forlorn and totally drenched! I was so surprised when I took my camera and found a few blooms for a delayed Blooms Day! Here are the sunny flowers that managed to put a smile on my face! Hey!! We are supposed to be in Spring!! But we really don’t feel very Springy yet!!
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Almond blossom[/one_half]
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Borage-a favourite here[/one_half_last]
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Potato Plant just flowering[/one_half]
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My sweet Tara-Barred Rock[/one_half_last]
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Nasturtium’s all soggy[/one_half]
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Really pretty wild flowers[/one_half_last]
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Love the bell shape Dierama[/one_half]
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Lavender looks great![/one_half_last]
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Water everywhere![/one_half]
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Dietes – always a winner[/one_half_last]
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Allysum tucked away[/one_half]
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Broccoli in bloom[/one_half_last]
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Ixias in bloom[/one_half]
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Calendula – bright orange![/one_half_last]
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Chrysanthemum[/one_half]
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Can’t wait for the Jasmine[/one_half_last]
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Something new – Lupins![/one_half]
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I really like them![/one_half_last]
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Azaleas about to bloom! A first![/one_half]
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Bulbine plant[/one_half_last]
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Peach blossom – looking sad![/one_half]
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Feverfew[/one_half_last]
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So excited! My confetti bush![/one_half]
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Blueberry blossoms-not so happy[/one_half_last]
Even though the blossoms are not all bold and bright, I am so happy to have the few there is. The ground is soaked and alot of plants have literally drowned. I have so much work to do and I look forward to a sunny week ahead!
Glad to be home and will be happier when I am in my gum boots!
Happy Gardening xxxx
18 replies on “Back in my Garden”
very nice collection. Love to see more.
Sad you have gotten too much rain. It seems topsy turvy the world over with the weather. I would love to visit Germany someday, it must have been a great trip even if some of it was for business. I have never been, but my family from both sides is from there originally. Confetti bush is a pretty neat plant, all the little flowers. I love Lupins too, but they are not long lived in our soil.
Oh, I wish I had some of your rain! But, what a pity to have drowning plants. Too much water is never a good thing. The blooms you have are lovely. I especially love the fuchsias, and oh, my! – I’m so impressed with the number of buds on the jasmine! I can imagine how fabulous the scent will be!
I am so glad to see a few of the buds are blooming – a big difference from last week. Have to get my camera!!!
Your flowers look great- dainty and magical. Apparently this was the wettest winter in 20 years in the Western Cape. Have you planted summer veggies yet/ I am waiting for better weather.
Wow! Feels like it! I have my seeds all ready! No – I need to wait for sunny days! 🙂
Getting itchy fingers. I do have a few seedlings to plant out, but I dare not! The ground is saturated!
Welcome back…oh to have your spring blooms…just gorgeous.
Thanks Donna – I am still having to catch up with work, but soon I will get stuck into the garden. I have started a BIG clean!
It’s nice to go traveling, but it’s O so nice to come home to beautiful blooms. And pre-blooms. Enjoy!
Thank you Lee! We haven’t met before! Glad to see you in my garden!
I agree with Alan–but it’s a special treat to visit your blog and see them all in bloom. Can’t imagine how beautiful they are all together. Ixias are fascinating. I tried planting them once, but they didn’t take. Maybe I should try them in pots?
So much can change in a week – I have to do a new bloom post! The Ixias are quite easy for me, they just re-seed !
The garden blooms in August and later in September are the images we hold on to so tightly, they inspire us to work hard and get ready for the seasons that are coming. I really enjoyed your garden photos.
Thanks Charlie! We are so looking forward to the Spring after a very wet and cold winter – even snow on Table Mountain, Cape Town!! That’s very unusual!
Welcome back! I think I finally figured out why I never know what season it is by looking at your garden: it’s because you have spring, summer, and fall blooming plants blooming at the same time. Makes it even more confusing that this happens during your winter! 🙂
I love your borage plants — always so happy and healthy. Did you deadhead the feverfew? If not, be prepared for lots of them popping up everywhere — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Hi Alan! Missed our garden chats!
Yea! It must be confusing because really we can have spring blooms coming as up as early as mid-winter!! All depends on the sunshine! We are lucky not to have radical weather patterns here, so flowers just arrive when they want! 🙂
Oh – No, I didn’t deadhead the feverfew, but I did cut it down in winter because it got abit mouldy! It was in water for too long! 🙁
Hi there
Yeah, from afar my garden also looks rained apart, but when you look close-up there are many little lovely things blooming. Can’t wait for a few weeks more when Spring is here properly!
I was wondering whether someone could help me find a nursery or 2 that sells ‘unusual’ trees and plants? I was trying to comment on the post about some little nursery you guys went hunting for in the Elgin/Grabouw area, but there’s no option for me to comment there :/ ? so I try here 🙂
I’m always looking for the unusual: like orange jasmine (murraya paniculata), cork oaks and eucalyptus cinerea. ? Any ideas of where I could go hunting for some of those?
Thanx