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As usual I am running with a theme. I have been weeding my little heart out to make room for far too many bulbs. The weeding is hard on my body and increases my pain. It also calms my mind. The mind wins over the complaining matter. As I weed I become fixated and see only what needs to be done. A wander with the camera is therapeutic, letting me see that there is some beauty in the garden now. Not next season, not next year but now.
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| If anyone can tell me what this is I will be grateful. |
Beautiful...your garden is WAY ahead of ours.
ReplyDeletemybabyjohn/Delores: It is Autumn here, and the garden is slowly easing back.
DeleteAbsolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteJenn June: Thank you.
DeleteBeautiful! I wish I could tell you what that is, but I can't. I can tell you that it is indeed a lovely flower. Let me know when you do find out, please. I'm having quite a bit of soreness myself, it must be catching! :-)
ReplyDeleteDJan: I do hope that this soreness is not catching. It is vile and makes me even more bad tempered than usual. The garden helps though.
DeleteSuch a beautiful garden. The heat is beginning to take its toll on my flowers and the roses lately have been looking a bit brown at the edges.
ReplyDeleteCindi: Most of our roses have finished for the season - just the occasional last hurrah bloom. Next year. The daisies seem to bloom pretty much all year - which is lovely.
DeleteSo many beauties there.
ReplyDeleteLynn: Thank you.
DeleteGreat shots! I love taking flower pictures.
ReplyDeleteRiot Kitty: Thank you. I am so glad that I stopped looking at all the work which needs to be done and wandered around, camera in hand, to enjoy what is here.
DeleteEach flower is a beauty.
ReplyDeleteStarting Over, Accepting Changes - Maybe: Thank you. I don't remember whether I have told you how much I like your blog name. If I haven't consider it said.
DeleteSuch a lovely lush and vibrant garden!
ReplyDeleteladyfi: We have had much more rain than usual and the garden has been loving it.
DeleteBonza photos. I especially the flower in the 5th photo and the way the flowers transform from one colour to another in photos 7, 8, 11, 12 :-).
ReplyDeleteWindsmoke: Thank you.
DeleteHow wonderfully colourful it all seems! And I love the archway. we wanted to do one here, but I don't think it will happen. Garden design was never something that has been agreed upon.
ReplyDeleteWas very surprised when some gorgeous cat photos appeared at the bottom of the comment page, is that something new?
permanently amanda: The archway is not quite what it seems. It was never planned, but has happened with a bit of careful pruning. Of which a lot more is needed.
DeleteThe cats are Jazz (bigger and meaner) and Jewel. They have been there all along. As you can see, they enjoy the garden too.
Beautiful photos of what looks like a lovely, soul-restoring garden :-)
ReplyDeleteKathy: Thank you. It is indeed soul-restoring, when it isn't being soul destroying. It is not an easy care garden and if I forget it gets away from me.
DeleteYou are clearly having summer upside down, but that is to be expected from someone who can post on a Sunday when it's still Saturday night. Love the osteospermums.
ReplyDeleteMurr Brewster: Our summer is dragging its feet. I would prefer Autumn which is nearly here judging by the colours in the foliage. Nearly, but not quite. Our Cape Daisies give us colour for most of the year. And it is now Sunday night.
DeleteSigh...I do always love your beautiful flowers.
ReplyDeletePaper Chipmunk (aka Ellen): Thank you. I am fond of them myself.
DeleteBeautiful looking garden - nothing like a bit of gardening to "escape" for a while....Your flower shots are very cool!! See you next week!! Cheers...
ReplyDeleteOne Too Many: I have been using a LOT of gardening as an escape. Thank you and see you next week (if not before).
DeleteLovely as always. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteDave King: Thank you.
DeleteI don't know what those little white ones are and now thta's bugging me because they look so familiar.
ReplyDeleteI like the light purple daisies with the blue centres; your begonias are magnificent.
River: What they are called is in my head somewhere but I cannot extract its name. Which is peeving me. The daisies are another weakness. We liked one, so twenty one is obviously better.
DeleteBeautiful flowers! Your flowers give me something to look forward too after a relatively colorless winter around here. I'm planting my vegetable garden now and beginning to see some of my first blooms.
ReplyDeleteRon Dudley: Thank you. Why is it that home grown vegetables taste sooooo much better.
DeleteThese could all be posters...... so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteKath: Thank you.
DeleteLots of beauty there! I wish I could garden, but the body just says NO!
ReplyDeleteKaren: Isn't it so frustrating when the body flatly refuses to do something we would really like to do. My body is saying no to the garden but until it shouts NO as yours has done I will ignore it.
DeleteI am with River, the unknown plant is bothering me as well now. the leaves area bit fleshy to be viburnum though the flowers are similar hmmm. I will dig Mums readers digest plant encyclopedia out later and have a proper look.
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures!
ReplyDeletemomto8: Welcome and thank you.
DeleteI have been going through my gardening books, too, and oh! how they can fail you! I wondered about viburnum, or pittosporum. Evidently it is not a plant which you trip over every day. How big is it? I presume it is evergreen?
ReplyDeletepersiflage: It lives in a pot on the front verandah and seems to be a bit averse to full sun. In its pot it is about three foot tall, and yes, it is evergreen. I have a feeling that we bought it at a fete and if it ever had a name tag it has gone. It does not flower every year - every two or three?
DeleteThe 5th flower down picture is just lovely. The colours are so bright and happy to see on this rainy melbourne day.
ReplyDeleteMarita: Thank you. For some reason only dahlias of that colour flowered this year - but have done so in profusion. And add colour here too.
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