Plants Beginning with I, J and K

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - IJK

Added:
Iris (white, bud only)
Jonquil
King Protea (can't believe I grew this!)

AArrgghh

Now - when I'm almost half way through - I find out my on-line image host (where the A to Z of plants lives) only allows me to make 10 folders.

I'm not complaining about the retriction, just that there was no way to find that out before I started making them grrrrrr

I'll combine them so there will be two letters in each folder, will take me a while to go back to each post and update the links though :(

Oh well, I needed something to do didn't I?

Water Lily

Realised I didn't post a pic of the water lily that finally did its thing and flowered (after 6 years!).

I didn't get a pic of the flower open :( it was white with a yellow centre, and only lasted a few days. The sly thing was opening during the day when I was at work then closing by the time I got home, so I had thought it hadn't opened yet!

Here tis:

Crinum Pics

Here are the pics of the Crinum in flower - the plant has split itself into two as well, flower on one, bud on the other plant:



Closeup view of the flower:

Plants Beginning with H

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - H

Added the H folder to the plant photo album:

Hippeastrum (pink and white)
Hyacinth

Plants Beginning with G

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - G

Added the G plants:

Gardenia (flower pic and also pics showing how harsh a pruning these can take)
Gerbra
Gladioli

Crinum

When I was at the zoo the other day I noticed all their Crinums were in flower, so figured mine wasn't going to muster up the effort to do likewise.

I was wrong! It has split itself into two plants AND each plant has a bud!!!!!!!!!!

Pics will be forthcoming."

Update on Entertaining Area

Over --------------->> there in the sidebar is a section of links to posts about the development of my entertaining area.

The plants have been in for a year now, so I thought some updated pics were in order.

The paving has become stained due to the bore water. The path of white-ish stones has become stained from various things that drop from the tree - mostly it's the dead flowers from the tree that cause the staining; looks like I should have gone for a dark stone instead of light colour.

Cuphea in front of Dietes, Gardenia behind with Philodendron (ferns under Philo):



Dietes and Cordylines:



Up the path:



Top area:



Fernery:


Long Shot:
November 05-


December 05-

Plants Beginning with E

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album -

Added one sole entry to E:

Eiffel Tower Rose
(so called as it is long-stemmed)

Plants Beginning with D

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - D

OK, so I've had a few days off, but am back to updating the photo album of plants. Just now added the D plants:

Daffodil
Daisy
Dietes Bicolour
Dietes Iriodes
Day Lily - yellow and organge ruffled.

Plants Beginning with C

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - C

This is good - it's making me organise my un-named photos on my computer.

Added the C album tonight. It includes:

Camelia
Canna (red)
Cape Gooseberry
Celery
Cherry Tomato
Clivia (organge)
Coriander
Crinum (common name Spider Lily)

Enjoy the pics!

Plants Beginning with B

A to Z Plant Photo Album

I don't have many plants that begin with B it seems.

Added to the album pics of:

Babiana
Black Pansy (gotta see it to believe it!)
Black Kangaroo Paw (I know its an anigozanthus, but many would look for this instead)



Also been adding photos to old posts regarding the entertaining area. Methinks I will have to change the side bar link for it .. perhaps a heading and the various relevant posts.

Plants Beginning with A

A to Z Plant Photo Album

Added to the photo album:

Agapanthus
Agonis Flexuosa (Pepper Tree)
Alstroemeria (Pricess Lily, Peruvian Lily)
Alyssum (Sweet William)
Anigozanthus (Kangaroo Paw - Black/Green)
Arum Lily
Avocado
Azalea
Azola (floating water plant)

New Things!

If you look over there ---------> in the sidebar under Links you'll see that I've been re-organizing some things.

I was running out of room on the server for my main web site, so I've moved a lot of the gardening stuff (ie mostly photos) from there to other places.

The A to Z pic of plants in my garden will be added to as time allows.

There will be more posts on the Entertainment Area Development, but I've run out of bandwidth to upload more pics to Flickr this month - just as well there are only 4 days until a new month starts!

I'll do a post when I update those areas, so you'll know if there's something new to look at.

My gardenias have rewarded me with four open flowers Yipee!!!!!!! I love love love the aroma.

In the meantime go have a look at the new stuff, let me know what you think.

Finally!

After about 6 years of variously nurturing, neglecting, nurturung, having given up on ..I finally have a flower coming on my water lily!!!!!!!!!!

So far it's just a bud poking it's head through the water, I have no idea how long it's going to take to open nor how long it will stay open for.

There will, of course, be pics!

Very Pleased

Very pleased I am that I forced myself out in the weird afternoon weather and planted:
2 types of lettuce
1 type of cucumber
1 type of squash (yellow)
1 capsicum plant

All after having tilled over the soil and added blood & bone and NPK blue.

Why so pleased? Cos tonight we were blessed with rain :) Glad I didn't leave it until tomorrow.

Tomorrow is get the lawn beetle day!

Free Mulch!

I Love my Council Depot
Having been to the local fair recently I found out I can get free mulch from my council.

Today being 'day off', and the council depot only open from 8-3 on weekdays meant that today was mulch day.

So I grabbed Thunderbolt three shovels, a rake and garden gloves and off we went - have to provide own trailer and own labour.

Had backed up the trailer to the mulch pile (which was enormous) and just about to get the shovels into action when along came a friendly coundil worked in a bulldozer and filled the whole trailer in one scoop YIPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd also bought a trailer load of cheap mulch from the local landscape suppliers as they lend you a trailer .. the trailer by itself from the garage was going to cost the same as a trailer-load of mulch - so I have two trailer loads of mulch for just $30!!

I've re-mulched the entertaining area, and with the dietes in flower yet again (and the fowers are gigantic!), it looks fabulous :)

Now deciding what to do with the mulch from the council .. it's very rough (it's from when they prune the street trees), is mostly wood chips and has some rather large pieces in it, plus it looks fairly 'green'.

Am thinking of putting it under the clothesline ... but want to put down newspaper first to try discourage the weeds. Not sure how much of the area will get covered either :( hmm should have gone back for another trailer load methinks!

Anyway, happy mulching those of you in the southern hemi-sphere.

Gardenias

A few weeks ago I put fertiliser on the gardenias, camelias and azaleas.

Now 4 of the 8 gardenias have heaps of yellow leaves :( Why only the four? I've used that fertiliser on them before and used the same one on all the plants - so why only those four? I don't get it.

Dietes are flowering again! I'm really liking these plants, flowers about every two weeks.

5 Weeks Into Spring...

Pepper Trees - noticed from the upstairs window today that one of them is covered in flowers!!!!!!!!!!

Chinese Tallow and Liquidambar are both 'in leaf'. Liquidambar is also in 'seed' so have many seedy thingys littering up the place - it's almost as bad as when it looses its' leaves but worse - cos when these seed thingys get wet they stain the paving and stone path :(

Peach - is in flower, but only on one branch, obviously got the pruning wrong last year.

Hippiastrum - now there are three flowers on the ones in the pot and two in the ground!

Frangipani - hasn't put on any leaves for the season as yet, wonder how many flowers I'll get this year.

Azaleas - one brave plant has put on some new flowers, after I thought they'd all finished doing their thing!

Lawn - the fertiliser spreader mustn't do so well on the 'down run' of the lawn, I have not-so-wonderful stripes of less-than-green lawn. Maybe next time I'll do both accross and up/down and end up with a chequerboard lawn!

How to Kill the Weeds?

It's an absolute corker of a Spring day today!!

I have to work out how to get rid of the weeds in the vege patch.

The problem is the bird netting that I put on the ground to stop the cats from using the patch as their toilet - it stops me from being able to dig/pull/scratch out the weeds that have now grown.

I think I'll try spraying them, but will have to block off the vege plants to do so, otherwise they'll cark it too.

Or maybe I'll just take the netting off as the plants are now established, meaning that the cat digging will not be the problem it was at the start.