flowering

Dendrobium speciosum

Conospermum triplinervium

Chrysocephalum apiculatum

Aloe in Fitzy Fence Garden

Bloom Day August

Small things :)

Dipladenia Citrine

Armeria Alliacea - Pink Petite

Tulbaghia cominsii - Fairy Star

Dianthus caryophyllus - mini carnation

Geranium - Rozanne

Geranium - Nanna Pim

Aloe - Bush Baby Yellow

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Alstroemeria - Elaine

Dendrobium Speciosum - Sydney Rock Lilly

Leucanthemum x superbum - Shasta Daisy

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/

Fitzy side garden

Ive called this garden border my Fitzy Side Garden as my neighbours are the Fitzgeralds & that made sense to me!  In here are two gorgeous rocks!! Hahahaha, no seriously I have planted an acacia, euphorbia, Leucadendron, scaevola & salvia, not that you can really tell any of that at the moment.

But you can see some of the paving of my little path which Im quite pleased with.

Below is the other part of the border, here we have cordyline, alstoemeria,  osteospermum, pittosporum, aloe, & agapanthus.

We have had a lovely drop of rain, 20mls on top of these little lovely's which should settle them in nicely.

Rain, Rain, glorious rain!

My planting progress has come to a halt, but thats fine as we have had in excess of 50 beautiful mls of precipitation, this June.

I am most excited to see the water pooling on top as this indicates my Gin Gin loam has some clay content, yay!  We also had a small amount of hail too!

Winter Solstice

Solstice'in Latin means 'sun-stopping'. The point on the horizon where the sun appears to rise and set, stops and reverses direction after this day. On the solstice, the sun does not rise precisely in the east, but rises to the north of east and sets to the north of west, meaning it's visible in the sky for a longer period of time.

Leucadendron Inca Gold

I have decided to plant leucandendrons along my western facing fence, hopefully they can cope with our hot summer sun

Leucadendron Discolor

All three are bushy shrubs, growing 2m x 2m with yellow bracts, the tags say drought tolerant. which I knew anyway, I'm just not sure about reflective heat off a super six fence.

Leucadendron salignum

A solstice happens when the sun's zenith is at its furthest point from the equator. On the June solstice it reaches its northernmost point and the Earth’s North Pole tilts directly towards the sun, at about 23.5 degrees. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html

So from now on the days will get longer again, seems a bit weird as I don't feel as though we've had any winter at all yet, it certainly hasn't been cold!