Sunday 26 June 2011

june flowers

Along with the winter vegetables, here's an update on the winter flowers.  The snowflakes are going nuts - every winter their clumps get thicker and thicker (this is what they looked like last winter).
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/snowflakejune.JPG
My species tulips are just starting to wake up too.  I start watering them again in the winter, knowing they wake up quite early.  The first growing tip has appeared!  Can you find it in this photo?
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/tulipjune.JPG
My colmnara orchid is still growing away.  They seem to rotate between putting out flowers and putting out new pseudobulbs.  I bought it last year in August just when it was blooming.  It doesn't look like it will blossom again by August, it's still working on several new pseudobulbs.  But I can't complain as it seems to be green and happy!  Maybe I'll visit the orchid show again and get another pretty orchid in bloom.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/orchidjune.JPG
My three hellebores are blooming one at a time.  The first ones are coming in very pale this year for some reason; last year they were dark purple-black.  Maybe the next flush will come in darker?
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/helleborejune1.JPG
On the other hand the second plant appears to be coming in dark.  The third one's sulking a bit but I know it will get there soon enough.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/helleborejune2.JPG
The nearby gaura has finished and is looking a bit scraggly.  After this photo I went in and trimmed them back a bit.  One of them had a bit of dead growth which I cut out, I hope that doesn't mean it's dying.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/gaurajune.JPG
I haven't shown you the succulents in ages.  I went through a phase where I was growing quite a few, but I decided they're rather boring plants.  They grow very slowly and don't change much; I like a plant with a bit of personality.  But this little bowl of succulents has slowly filled in.  I like that in the winter the ones on the left turn red.
http://www.alexareynolds.com/garden11/succjune.JPG
That's about it in the garden at the moment!  That and major pruning but that's not very interesting for the blog.


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