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Thursday, 2 June 2011

This Month In The Garden

MAY
I don't know if strawberries are supposed to be flowering at this time of year, but this one is!

Dark buds are forming on the Rhodanthe.

Honey Pie and I picked up four Hebe plants for four dollars at a fund raiser on polling day.
I placed them alongside the driveway, where there's always a risk of being run over by errant drivers!  At one dollar each I don't feel so bad if they should be destroyed.  For the moment, they are sending out new buds.  Fingers crossed.

Common Thyme continues to over-run a rocky nook.
Our one little rose bush continues to send out beautiful scarlet buds.

An Aloe Vera spike looking kind of eerie.

The broad beans were a little slow sprouting but with the heavy rain we've had over the past few days it looks like they've finally woken up!

My piece de resistance - Blueberry flowers.  Aren't they just stunning?  I bought two bushes at the opening of our local refurbished Bunnings store earlier this year. Gardening guru, Don Burke of Burkes Backyard advised me that I need to buy two bushes, not one.
They had three berries each on them at the time.  
Look at them now!! 

The Backhousia myrtifolia hedge is showing lots of new growth after a decent prune early in autumn.


Echeveria Black Prince in flower.


The cyclamen seedlings are doing well.



I think this is Banksia spinulosa but don't quote me on that.  These brushes are well spread out over the garden.  No care required at all.
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