Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Back home

It is getting cooler and some of the leaves are beginning to find their autumnal hues but in our garden the flowering plants are also doing their bit. We cannot claim too much credit for many of the exotics in the garden, to the former owners goes that accolade; nonetheless we have a number of plants which are at their best at this time of the year. The bromeliads which thrive under our careful husbandry have a very short but spectacular flowering cycle - they have been beautiful this year.

No less beautiful are the strelitzia of which we have 3 or 4 around the yard.

Our single cyclamen has produced (so far) a single flower but we are expecting better things from it...

And I am reliably informed by Judy that one of our camellias has seriously miscalculated the season and is flowering months early (possibly trying to avoid the spring rush). It is actually white but so confused it is also produced blooms like this one.

And finally we arrived home and were able to harvest the first of our vegetables from the small patch we established 6 or so weeks ago.
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  1. RachaelApril 20, 2010 at 1:50 PM

    Vegetables! How lovely! Some men have dug up the hedges that were out the front of my place and are going to replace the concrete front steps (they're all crumbly, which is very alarming when they're covered in snow). They plan to put new plants in when it's done, and I think maybe I'll be able to surreptitiously stick some herbs (sage, rosemary, oregano) into the new mulched soil. I do hope so. xxxRach

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  2. Ian EmmettApril 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    The garden looks wonderful. Not so wonderful was the attempt to email the philosophy of ageing, but not to worry. I've put it on a disk which I'll send by Jen and James. Love Dad and Ruth.

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