Plants Beginning with O

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - MNO & P

Tonight added two O plants:-

Orchid - Cymbidium, green
Orchid - Slipper.

The slipper orchid flowers were so shiny. It hasn't flowered again since I was given it but the plant seems to be doing fine, so I'll just wait:

Current To Do List

Cut out the top of the avocado tree
I am waiting until Thunderbolt is here to do thisas I don't like using the chainsaw when I'm alone. This is something I do about every two years, to stop the tree from getting too tall and out of control.
Sadly there are fruit on the branches I'll be cutting out, but there's quite a lot of fruit on the lower branches too. I know it means less fruit at the next flowering but it has been producing more fruit than I can eat, so that's ok (the friends and family might be a bit miffed at not getting freebies though!)

Mow Lawn
Again and again and again - it's like housework this one, always needs re-doing.

Work Out
What to do with the 'nothing' part of the entertaining area. Having the funds to build the pond is a long way off. I keep thinking that I could plant things there in the interim. Have to be careful about this with plant choice and where the retic goes in case the pond actually does ever eventuate.

Rear Garden Replanting
Still have one section of this that could be done. Likely to be lots of tree roots (the tallow), but the bed is only small and already has day lillies in it, so it should be do-able.

Vege Patch
The good bit - keep picking produce!
Probably should fertilise it again, and re-stake the tomatoes.

Plants Beginning with M and N

Ladytreemakers Photo Album - MNO & P

Oh, I also added the Chinese Tallow to the 'C' album.

At the moment there is just M and N plants in here, more will be added later.

Mango - tree and fruit, I like that new growth on the tree (ie leaves) is dark red.
Nasturtium
Native Violet - another of my most favourite flowers (so much so here's the pic below)
Nectarine - in blossom, and with fruit.

Native Violet:



New and Additional Blog
I like this plant so much that I've used a slice of the above pic as the banner on a new garden blog I've started. It's over here if you're interested. It isn't just a copy of this one, but eventually I may meld the two.

Yes I know, I need another blog like a hole in my head, but there is the possibility in the future of receiving money for blogging, so I thought I'd give it a go. I have no money in my current budget for gardening needs, so if I get some extra I'll try put it the gardens' way.

Plants Beginning with I, J, K and L

ladytreemaker 's Online Photo Album - IJKL

Had to put L in with this lot to make the 10 folders stretch for the whole alphabet.

Added:
Lavender
Leucospernum (often mistaken for a protea)
Lilyorchid
Liquidamber

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!