MORE FLOWERINGS AND A DISASTER!

I wandered around the garden again on Monday 6th October, taking more shots of what's coming out right now.
On Monday night we had a BIG WIND!! I looked out the window and there was my beautiful Winpara Gem split in two pieces, with two-thirds of it lying on the ground! I guess a gardener learns to accept the inevitable!
I knew it would happen one day but at least it happened when it had given us perhaps the greatest show of flowers it had ever achieved.

We'll leave the remaining bit to finish flowering and then, I guess, it's replacement time.

Here's a small selection of what's now beginning to flower:

Prostrate Acacia - A. maxwillii

Scarlet Banksia - still on its way!

Gevillea rosmarinifolia - Ten years old and just
keeps on flowering.

Hibbertia aspera (round leaf).
CAN be a bit aggressive but lovely.

Close up of the H. aspera flowers.

I'm still waiting for the Scarlet Banksia to really come out and there are still many different things to come.

A WANDER THROUGH THE BUSH GARDEN

A shady resting place.

I realised, after I'd posted yesterday, that I'd forgotten my almost favourite place, and that is my "Bush Garden".
It's very tiny, my Bush Garden. It's straggly, unkempt and messy but it's how I like it. It's composed of Australian ground covers, small plants, shrubs, trees and mulch. The paths, such as they are, are sometimes almost enveloped by spreading vegetation - and then I have to do a bit of cutting back - and most of the mulch has now come from the natural fall of leaves, twigs, bark, etc. from the plantings.
I created it for me and for the small grandchildren. I'm happy to say that the small ones have often enjoyed getting out there and pottering about, either alone or with the occasional grandmother, uncle, or other 'grown up' who feels like joining them.
Here's a link to the Picasa Album: A wander through the Bush Garden
Try putting it on 'Slide Show'.
I hope you enjoy the experience.
Perhaps there'll be another post from me - without waiting another two years!
Till the next one - au revoir!
Gillian

TWO YEARS - AND MORE - SINCE POSTING!

WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
No excuses - just, here I am again!
Other activities have taken over my life and I haven't felt the need to keep this blog up-to-date.
The original point of this Blogging exercise was to create the Australian Native Garden (practically done!) and keep myself and any other interested persons up to date with what's flowering when, what's flourishing and what's dying!
And one of the major aims in creating this native garden was to make it as maintenance-free as possible and THAT, I'm happy to say, has been largely achieved which is, I guess, why the lack of blogging activity. there's just enough maintenance needed for a happy gardener to potter around at a gentle pace without too much stress.
WHY AM I BACK? 
Because this spring, the garden is looking so lovely and flowering with such gay abandon that I want to share it with my family and with any other interested people who drop in - and this is the easiest way to do it.
I'll post a few pics here and then link to Picasa for a bigger selection.

Hardenbergia "Regent" - VERY dark purple. Gorgeous!

Banksia blechnifolia -planted Nov. 2010 and FIRST flowering.
This picture should be turned anti-clockwise but I don't seem
to be able to do it!

Chorizema cordatum - planted July 2013 - a great success!

Here's the link to the Picasa Album with all the extra photos:
Picasa Album for July and September, 2014.
Just click on the above and it will take you there.
It's been a voyage of discovery, remembering how all these posts work but now it's done!
Who knows when I'll be back again? I certainly don't.
Meanwhile, enjoy!
Happy gardening - and enjoy other people gardens, too!
Gillian the Gardener.