tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37666896987941318292024-02-18T19:41:24.346-08:00Bloomfield Cottage, it's a lifestyleRoz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-45130754344220449632019-01-15T19:44:00.000-08:002019-01-15T19:44:01.539-08:00Rain, Hail and Shine<br />
Easter is upon us and 2015 is flying by. Its been awhile since my last post so I thought I`d treat you all to some photos from over the years of some dramatic weather we`ve experienced here. Gardening is always a challenge at the best of times but when mother nature strikes an angry pose, all you can do is run for cover and wait it out - which is what we did when she opened the flood gates.....<br />
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When it rains this hard, gutters overflow, rain tanks spill over and garden soils wash away. And those rotten pencil pines flop open with the weight and never go back up! Urgh I hate pruning from high ladders - in fact I got so sick of them opening up we pulled em out! That`ll teach em. Ive got a nice rose arch there now.</div>
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So, lots of rain is one thing, but when it hails IT DOES DAMAGE!</div>
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And of course it always comes out of the blue so you have no time to batten down the hatches or save the cushions. How can something so pretty create so much damage - lucky my car was in the garage - not so lucky for the tomato bushes and shredded vegetation throughout the garden</div>
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The whole garden looked like this - shredded to ribbons. It was heart breaking.</div>
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And then there was lightening......poor old Mulberry tree</div>
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No really, poor old Mulberry tree :[ If it wasn`t enough to be struck by lightening and survive, along comes a mighty gale that blew it over! Strongest 100 knot winds we have experienced here. Check out the blog `Saving the Mulberry tree` believe it or not it`s still going.</div>
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Some weather is tougher than most on gardens and drought and bushfires are one of the worst. This was only two years ago. We had no rain throughout winter and went straight into hell, missing spring altogether. The tanks were all dry and no amount of hand watering made any difference. All we hoped to achieve was to save trees and shrubs - the smaller stuff was more replaceable, but sad to lose collections of delicate plants. These photos were taken on another device and are a bit grainy.</div>
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Lucky the cabbages don't mind</div>
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But, at the end of the day, the frost melts, the hail damage grows out and the rain drenched soils</div>
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bring forth new life .... and gardening goes on</div>
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I hope the weather has been kinder to your little patch of the earth. Leave a comment on your worst weather event - It would be nice to know I don't suffer alone.</div>
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-50019189184523744812019-01-15T19:25:00.000-08:002019-01-15T19:25:59.678-08:00Oh, now that`s just pretty.....After such a bleak hot summer, the rains have finally come, bringing masses of lush growth and a burst of flowers everywhere. So this post is just about some much need soul soothing. Nothing makes me feel such a deep sense of peace and joy as when I wander about the garden and see so many pretty scenes, the earth damp under foot and the smell of rich soil bursting with life. This is when gardening soothes the soul and you know it`s all worth it.<br />
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I shouldn`t be amazed, but I always am, at how the garden comes back to life in such a short time after good rains. Here in Sydney our late summer rains come with a heady mixture of thunder and lightening. This rain, full of electrified ozone is incredibly effective for reviving the garden, as it fills the air with nitrogen! And before your very eyes, pretty scenes appear throughout the garden.<br />
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Because I have basically a cottage style garden, many flowers self sow themselves into great little pictures. Nature knows how to get it just right. We humans always tend to plant in patterns and rows that, while might look neat, always looks contrived. I must confess that my compulsion for neatness does tend to temp me to rearrange seedlings that come up where you don't want them, but it`s usually these random escapees that look the best if you let them go.<br />
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The roses have picked up and are all showing off as only they can. This is `Duet`.</div>
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A large bowl of petunias and self sown lobelia are making a good show.</div>
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It`s not every year that we open our gates for a weekend to share our amazing garden and lifestyle with the public and garden lovers alike. Thank goodness, because it`s an incredible amount of work for about five months. In fact, we only do it every 2 or 3 years, so this is going to be a great opportunity to see just what 18 years of dedicated gardening has produced.<br />
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`Bloomfield Cottage` is named after a massive climbing red rose, too big even for here! Roses are the main feature of the garden at the end of October, and are budding up with great vigour at the moment. There are three huge diamond shaped `show` beds - one a red rose bed, one a pink and white bed and the last is a mixture of apricot and purple. Here, Roses are used extensively in the landscape. Arbours and archways adorn roses, making walkways a fragrant experience. Ballerina rose, drapes a chain and post fence along the driveway, while Crepuscule and New Dawn hang over tall rose wheels. Pillar roses are also used for effective upright height. Clair Jaquier is showing off at the moment, hanging from the branches of a dead tree - the home in fact of our beloved bee hive!<br />
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You will find many `Heritage` roses throughout the garden and an extensive bed dedicated to David Austin roses, so very English and so very fragrant, under-planted with loads of salvias and colour.<br />
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So, what else is there to see? If you stroll around the verandah, which is cool and covered in wisteria - just finished flowering, you will find lots of tender pretty shrubs and flowers all in pinks flowing into the gold/orange bed and around to the blue and purple garden, full to the gills of colour.<br />
You may also like to investigate the cool greenhouse and potting area or the newly built glasshouse.<br />
Of course it wouldn`t be an experience till you`ve said hello to the chooks and rabbits or Hunter, our very spoilt miniature horse. <br />
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In this part of the garden you will come across the vegetable gardens - six of them in fact. People are always fascinated with healthy looking home grown vegetables, so I have been busy planting all our summer crops in my spare time. That`s right, when I`m not shovelling mulch, planting shrubs and potted colour, pruning. hedging, fertilizing - oh, you get the gist. Have a look at the collage of garden pics I took today. So, two weeks to go till showtime...we`ve had some rain, now we need some sun... <br />
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I`ll post some pic`s and perhaps a video, when Bloomfield Cottage has its open weekend, to show you what the visitors will see. Oct 25th and 26th, 2014<br />
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-57382404530847743562016-10-30T00:59:00.001-07:002016-10-30T01:00:51.896-07:00How do you say goodbye to all this....it's gonna be toughYes folks, Bloomfield Cottage is up for sale. <br />
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After 20 years of passionate gardening, creating, and nurturing, we have decided it's time to move. My adult daughters were shocked, as are many of our friends and community but it's time for a change - you guessed it, a sea change.<br />
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This will potentially be the last spring here, and everything is looking amazing, so I thought I would just share some of the beauty that is Bloomfield Cottage at the moment. Each time I take a photo now, I think, 'This is the last time I will see how gorgeous this is' - I'm gonna miss it, even though I'm excited to embark on a totally different lifestyle on the coast!<br />
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The incredible flowers of my Macadamia tree - 'Pinkalicious'<br />
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<span id="goog_1812125484"></span><span id="goog_1812125485"></span>Till next time ......hope you enjoyed my garden :) and er, I guess I'll let you know if it sells.....Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-87983771113245233392016-10-10T04:57:00.002-07:002016-10-10T04:57:46.181-07:0020 years at Bloomfield Cottage - from woe to go .........It's only when you look back at old photos that you realise how much has changed over the last 20 years. Of course, having adult children now is the real reality check, but looking back at how much blood sweat and effort, not to mention cuts, bruises, strained muscles and bad backs, has gone in to our 20 yr labour of love. As you can see we had very humble beginnings living on site with two little toddlers in a caravan whilst we built the house. Fortunately the big shed has a toilet and two rooms where we stored most of the furniture and a small room we converted into a basic bathroom. Life was simple and exciting, full of the future we were embarking on.<br />
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Little did my husband know what was going through my head for the gardens! I would often see builders shaking their head when I was right down the furthest reaches of our 1.5 acre, planting hardy shrubs and lugging watering cans around - they had no idea of how important this backbone layer of the garden would be one day, after all you can't plant soft and pretty things until you create the right environment for them to grow. We are situated high above the suburb and can get a lot of weather and extreme winds from time to time, so creating wind breaks with Juniper 'Spartan' was essential. There literally was no shade until it grew, so now we have 20 year old trees on the property.</div>
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At this stage of my life, I was heavily into borrowing beautiful country gardening books from our local library. I would gaze longingly at Edna Walling gardens (hence the drystone sandstone edges) and read 'Garden of a thousand roses' by Susan Irvine (also hence, the 600 or so roses!). I still have hundreds of gardening magazines and became an avid organic vegetable gardener and planted a small orchid of fruit trees near the large 6 bed vegetable patch.. The soft and pretty English gardens and roses have always resonated with me most, that, and a childhood spent with great aunties at the beautiful Adelaide Botanical Gardens. And so, I melded both, and now describe Bloomfield Cottage as an English Parkland Garden. </div>
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These are scanned photos of the originals - and a map used for some of our Open Garden visitors.</div>
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As you can see, we've come along way in 20 years<br />
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We are always asked why they don't fly away - but of course, once they are 'homed' to their house or cote, and their feeding stand, they just stay. The dove cote itself is situated in a protected part of the yard, quite near the koi pond,so water is always available. Right behind is the lookout - a tall, dead tree that is the home to our bee hive and used as a roost to survey all.</div>
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Beautiful aren't they? But over time our numbers dwindled for one reason or another and so we needed to buy in some new birds and 'home' them, which is a bit of a process, but worth the time and effort when you finally free them.</div>
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We use star pickets to stake a wire fence around the dovecote and feeding stand, leaving a makeshift gate to come and go from. Then we cover the lot with bird netting, tying it down securely so no roaming cats can get in, making sure the birds have an adequate flight path to the feeding stand and the ground. And that's it for 6 weeks! Then, hopefully when we remove it all - the birds stay.</div>
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The next morning it was raining and windy - and still no sign of the doves :( We felt so bad that we had let them out before a storm and cursed our poor judgement. We stayed in a lot that Sunday, watching Game of Thrones, as it was bitterly cold outside, so it wasn't until we went out late in the afternoon that we discovered the doves had found their way home! Three weeks later all is well as the doves discover the joys of flying, bathing on the stones in the pond and walking about on the lawns and gardens. They love their new home - and why wouldn't they, it's beautiful when the roses are out.</div>
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You can see more of Bloomfield's roses <i>here <a href="http://rozgrowsbest.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/its-rose-time-at-bloomfield.html">http://rozgrowsbest.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/its-rose-time-at-bloomfield.html</a></i></div>
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There's not a lot going on around the garden at this cold and wintery time of the year. There is a bareness, a naked view of the bones and structure of the whole scene. I love to prune bare trees at this time, when I can see the structure and future shape of just the branches.<br />
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I need to get cracking on rose pruning - there are literally hundreds, many are large climbers and old fashioned shrubs, including an extensive display of David Austin's. If you want to see an array of some of our most beautiful roses, go to the Featured Post -<i>It's</i> <i>Rose time at Bloomfield Cottage</i></div>
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The Camellia hedge is looking great after some good rain to perk it up. These blousy Sasanqua's are first to flower, then the more formal Japonica's follow.</div>
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The pond always looks nice, even in it's winter state. We don't feed the koi fish much at all at this time of the year.</div>
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I have been busy though, building a new raised garden with some sandstone my husband bought home some time ago, and of course I tidied up the whole pathway whilst down there. </div>
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Looking back the other way. I love the hidden pathways around the garden :)</div>
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All the Broccoli, Kale and Brussel Sprouts are netted from the pesty cabbage moth - no sprays used here. The soils are all freshened up with lime, cow manure, horse manure, and organic seaweed.</div>
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This patch of succulents seem to thrive on the cold. In fact, it's tips turn quite pink with the cold weather. We are going to use little florets of this succulent for my daughter's wedding tokens, done up in little glass terrariums!</div>
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And of course, winter is the beginning of bulb time here. These are the first to come up and flower in the middle of winter - Erlicheer jonquils, always a cheerie sight with a strong fragrance!</div>
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I can't believe how much new growth some of the roses have already - much too soon. It makes it very difficult to spray with lime sulpher after pruning, as it will burn the new delicate foliage. It is an important step at rose pruning time as it cleans up any over-wintering blackspot and fungal spores.</div>
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And as you can see, I have loads of roses to prune in the diamond beds. These are the Hydrid Tea roses that I use for showing and cutting.</div>
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<br />Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-64649280314712383702016-02-28T23:49:00.000-08:002016-02-28T23:49:07.052-08:00Meet our Miniature horse Hunter<br />
Isn't he just gorgeous? Well that's a mothers view of course. And to be honest, he is always very popular at 'open garden' days and family functions. His name is Hunter and he is a miniature horse,very much part of our family. The dogs are great companions of his too, often found sitting with him while he crops the lawn.<br />
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He is 13 years old this year, which is probably the adolescent stage of his life, as mini's can live 30 years and more! That being said, a horse is a lifetime pet and not just a whim, so it was a big decision based on whether I was prepared to look after him for a very long time to come - because we all know that children grow up and leave home and the pets usually stay! When my children and I went to first view him at a property near Goulburn, NSW, he was only 6 weeks old and truly the cutest little thing we'd ever seen, frisking about his mother. Then, when he was weaned at 6 months old, he was delivered to our Bloomfield Cottage property where we had prepared his own fenced off area and built a small manger for protection from weather and feeding. He was the same size as our golden retriever at this time and was very popular with all the neighbourhood children!<br />
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He has been a great companion while I'm in the veggie patch as his corral is right next to it. He will whinny and neigh his hellos and we often have a little nuzzle and a kiss on his soft nose. Hunter always gets little treats from the veggie patch but usually we tie him to a strong stake around the lawn so he can crop at leisure - he is definitely <i>not</i> to be trusted anywhere near the garden beds or the roses - which I might add are his favorite.<br />
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When he was little, the girls used to comb and platte his mane with beads and all sorts of pretty ribbons - poor boy. But these days his grooming is left to me and I just brush him occasionally and trim his tail and fringe. We don't cover him with a blanket in winter, so he grows this amazing thick fluffy coat to keep warm. If you run your fingers through it you cant feel his skin at all it's so thick.<br />
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He got quite sick once, about 6 years ago, and we rushed him to our local equine veterinary hospital. We had the vet out the week prior because he wasn't eating or pooping - very bad for horses! They operated immediately on him and removed two large 'stones' from his stomach that was blocking all functions. We kept them as a reminder to keep his diet plain and regular and he has been fine ever since. The stones feel like pumice stone and smell of chaff. The vets are not sure what causes them<br />
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<br />Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-75658464230921172672016-02-19T20:05:00.002-08:002016-02-19T20:05:22.701-08:00See what comes out of this odd little cocoon...........I found this funny cocoon thing the other day. Iv`e never seen one like it before - and I can tell you that over 30 years of gardening, iv`e seen plenty of weird insect eggs, sac`s and cocoons. But this one was a slightly corky little thing, with a tiny hole in one end. Such a cleverly built little thing, which was securely attached to a branch of wisteria.<br />
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Luckily my daughter and husband were still in bed! Thank goodness they hadn't yet traveled too far around the kitchen, and were still isolated to the window and sink area. As you can guess, I raced for the insect killer spray and quickly sprayed the crap out of them! I had goose bumps and the creeps!<br />
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After gloving up and finding the old dish cloth I removed all the dead little bugs before my family saw them! Ha, nothing worse than your 22 yr old daughter telling you 'I told you so'.<br />
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Well she was right, and I learnt my lesson - don't bring any suspicious insect nests in to the house!<br />
I'm still not sure what they were, but I suspect they are a hatchling of a wasp or perhaps grasshopper? I'm so glad I only just caught them crawling about everywhere - imagine if I got up and the nest was empty and they had all disappeared throughout the house! There were hundreds of them! Argh, that doesn't bear thinking about.<br />
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Please leave a comment if you think you know what the little critters were. I searched the net but there are just so many weird little cocoons. I've since found two more cocoons outside - which is where I will leave them - lesson learnt.<br />
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A good deep soaking is just what all the large trees and shrubs need though, and Iv`e put in a request to my husband, for a trailer load or two of stable manure to top up the veggie gardens after the rains are done and the soils are saturated. I`m glad I got all the boundary and garden edges weed-sprayed before the rain, otherwise the weeds would have taken over with the rain and humidity. It doesn`t take long for nature to grow out of control if you don't keep on top of it at this time of the year.</div>
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The 48m camellia hedge along the driveway, is the next to get the big prune - it`s over the fence in parts and with all this rain it will shoot up quickly. After a quick inspection of the camellia hedge today, I was horrified to see it budding up already! it`s very early, still mid summer, and not even pruned yet! If I want a good floral display this Autumn I need to get cracking. </div>
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Last weekend was our first wedding at Bloomfield Cottage! It was only a small gathering as the actual ceremony was in Thailand a few weeks ago. However, for all their relatives that couldn`t make it O/seas, and to actually make it legal in Australia, a small ceremony was performed right here in our beautiful garden setting.<br />
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And no - the bride didn`t wear her wedding gown for us, but looked lovely in a soft flowing floral - perfect for a garden wedding. There was quite a bit of cleaning (and de cob-webbing), moving of furniture and potted plants, mowing and watering to keep everything lush for the day in our hot weather. Only days earlier we had a scorcher reaching 42 degrees! </div>
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The bride and groom supplied a lovely High Tea style luncheon and as the day warmed, so the Champagne and beer flowed. The gardens were looking lovely even though the first flush of roses had finished. There were still plenty of spot flowering roses though, with Weeping Dorothy Perkins - surrounded by The Fairy roses still showing off beautifully. And of course the stunning Cape Chestnut - Calodendrum was a pretty pink backdrop.<br />
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So now Bloomfield Cottage has a Wedding to add to our impressive list of occasions celebrated in this beautiful setting. Over the years we have celebrated 16ths, 18ths, 21sts, 50ths, Melbourne Cup Luncheons, Neighbourhood get-togethers, Halloween, Easter Sunday brunches complete with 9- holes of golf or Croquet, Open Gardens and many happy Christmas`s. And next year we are hosting our daughter`s engagement to add to the wonderful memories and good times shared here.</div>
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It gives me such pleasure to share our beautiful garden from time to time, and with you, on this blog. Till next time....</div>
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My favorite time in the garden, is the first flush of Spring roses. Coming up to our Open Day here at Bloomfield Cottage, the weather has been fickle. Considering it is still only mid Spring, we had a couple of extremely hot 38-40 degree days, then it dipped back down to a comfortable 22-23 degrees with a light shower or two. Consequently many of the first buds got scorched, and overnight, nasty little Thrip turned up, running amok in the rose petals!<br />
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Most visitors probably didn`t even notice, but the day before our Open Garden, was our local Rose Society Show, in which I was taking part. So on Friday night, as I walked about the roses trying to select some blooms, I was almost in despair! They were all marked! I couldn`t find a thing worth showing. I was quite depressed as I trudged back inside - not one rose in my bucket.<br />
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Now Iv`e got a lot of roses, and to not find one worthy, well I cant tell you how cranky I was. So the next morning I got ready early and bucket in hand went out for another look. Thankfully overnight quite a few roses had opened up. They weren`t spectacular, but at least I managed to scrape together enough to display for judging. Here are a few photos of this years beautifully grown, displayed and judged roses by various members.<br />
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I only managed two Third Places in this years C grade, but I did win First in the vegetable and Photographic section. However, no time to celebrate - I had an Open Garden to ready for the very next day! Thankfully the weather was cool, overcast, and there was even a bit of misty rain to start the day, which is just what was needed for a gentle garden day. Everything looked perky and happy and the cloud cover made for perfect photography. 10am they started wandering in. The urn was bubbling and morning tea laid out. Some quiet garden music was playing softly and the plant stall ready and waiting. <br />
We had a lovely day talking to all sorts of garden lovers and enthusiasts, some budding photographers and lots of friends who dropped by. So here are some photos of the day for you to enjoy ..... ( I did sneak a few pics in that were taken up to two weeks later as not everything was in flower on the day)<br />
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Well that`s it for another year. Hope you enjoyed it as much as my visitors did.Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-17056163635933097402015-09-19T05:32:00.000-07:002015-09-19T05:32:22.650-07:00Wisteria malfunction - oh dear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The wisteria surrounding the veranda is 18 years old. And in full bloom. It`s just amazing. The fragrance is sweet and strong and the bees are going crazy. But yesterday we had unseasonal strong hot winds. Yep, the wire broke and down she came. Oh not all the way - for the first time I`m grateful that a branch has grown up under the gutter and into the roof, holding the whole lot off the ground. The question is... will it pull the guttering down?<br />
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And of course my husband is away at the moment, so I thought I could shore it up with some timber to at least save the weight on the guttering. Not going to happen. I cant believe how heavy it is in full flower - won`t budge, just too darned heavy. I cant see out past the wall of flowers that are hitting the ground. This mass is usually right up high.</div>
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My Virgo OCD nature kicks in when I see Potted Colour at the garden shops. For me, it`s like being in a candy store, - I find it hard to resist. It`s not just their beautiful fresh flowers but the fact that you get to stand with a basket and select THE BEST ONES, with the nicest colours!<br />
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Of course it`s not just pansies that I love to buy in potted colour. I found some gorgeous petunias today - even though its a bit early for them - they like the hot summer.<br />
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-16746205071776421642015-08-07T01:32:00.001-07:002015-08-07T01:32:45.429-07:00It`s Orchid time....Cymbidium`s that isYes it`s that time of the year - mid winter and cold - but the Cymbidium`s seem to love it. I move them all out onto the patio to get maximum sun at this time of the year. They cop a lot of wind and cold there, but are all happily flowering. They`re tough old things if your prepared to move them twice a year. I move them back into the semi shade near the greenhouse in the hot summer.<br />
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Iv`e had many of these orchids since the birth of my first daughter. You know, instead of giving flowers, give me orchids, and they did! I`ve had to divide them over the years, and of course I added to the collection over time, after all, it was always impossible to resist when you work in a nursery at flowering time. Some have the most heavenly scent too.</div>
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How are your orchids growing? If you havn`t got any, do yourself a favour and get a lovely potted specimen. You`ll have it for years and years. And when they do flower, take them inside or put them close to the house to see the remarkable waxy flowers for weeks and weeks.</div>
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The temperature is plummeting as a massive cold front covers a third of Australia. It snowed last night, at the top of the Blue Mountains which is common in winter, but it snowed half the way down the mountain too, which rarely happens, and a big dump of snow in the Southern Highlands. As I sit cosy and rugged up inside writing this, it`s a chilly 8 degrees with a bitter wind blowing. It has been 0 and below at night here, with a few heavy frosts to blacken the more tender plants.<br />
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Most of the trees have lost their leaves and the roses are just about all asleep. Wisteria and perennials are now bare and lots of bulbs are up - the Jonquils are already flowering with a heady scent.<br />
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When we get a run of cold frosty mornings, after it slowly melts when the sun hits it - the day warms somewhat, into the most brilliant blue still day. Beautiful. But don`t be fooled - the temperature will drop rapidly early afternoon, into another freezing night.<br />
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Isn`t he too cute? Dear little boy.</div>
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So what else is going on around here...well the bulbs are all up - Jonquils and Daffodils,</div>
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And the veggie patch is growing loads of winter goodies, all protected from the cabbage moth by netting - ORGANIC practices here people - no chemicals for healthy home grown goodness. We`ve got mini Cabbages, mini Cauliflower, Broccoli, Spinach, Corriander and Kale.</div>
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-51087160949474106642015-06-15T05:52:00.001-07:002015-06-15T05:53:38.919-07:00Lachenalia - such little show-offs<br />
Lachenalia bulbs, or `Soldier Boys` as my nan called them, are such bold little flowering bulbs...I just love them. Like so many things I grow in my garden, these remind me of my grandma and her beautiful garden. As a little girl, my nan would take us around her garden and show us all the bulbs emerging, surrounded by swaythes of frothy linaria flowers. She would point out all the little pansy faces watching us and entertain us with the moving beards of snapdragons. Yes, it`s no wonder I turned out a gardener - we all did. So when a friend of mine offered me some Lachenalia bulbs whilst showing me around her large country garden, I jumped at the chance.<br />
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I started off with just a handful of bulbs which have quickly multiplied over the last 5 years, so this year I sent a parcel of them to my mum! </div>
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As you can see, I just pick out all the big healthy bulbs to replant, after all, how many do you need. Each bulb makes lots of baby bulbs each year and will overcrowd your display. So when I dig them up at the end of each season I just put them in a seedling tray with an onion bag laid out and let them dry out. Next season, I give the whole lot a good shake to loosen the dirt and baby bulbs, then pick out what I want to keep and share each year and toss out the littlens. You know when it`s time to take action planting, when they start to shoot.</div>
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This year Iv`e put them in a big sandstone trough on the verandah. I just add some milled cow manure and some slow release fertiliser to the potting mix then pop them in. They don`t have to go very deep cause they`re only little bulbs, but I put lots of them in for a great display. </div>
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<br />Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-47021477362186312722015-06-01T01:10:00.000-07:002015-06-01T01:30:39.988-07:00It 's Zygo Cactus time - do you want to see my Schlumbergia?Autumn is Schlumbergia time - yes that`s right - Schlumbergia! and mine are looking great this year.<br />
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It`s one of those great words that you have to say over and over, just to hear it roll off the tongue. Go on, give it a go - you know you want to ... SCHLUMBERGIA. Zygo Cactus is its common name, bit easier to get your tongue around, and like many cactus - it`s all about the flower.</div>
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Most of the year these plants can be a bit bland - just lots of segmented, tender cactus foliage. Most hang in a pendulous manner and make great hanging baskets although there are a few with a more upright habit. I tend to move them back into the greenhouse or tuck em away when not in flower and bring them all out at flowering time.</div>
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And because they are in the succulent family, they need little care and certainly little water. I just use a cactus/succulent potting mix for good drainage and throw on some slow release fertilizer. I gave my daughter her first hanging basket full of apricot and cream flowers. I`m sure this will make a long lived and hardy hanging plant for her patio.</div>
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They make easy cuttings to produce more plants - just break off the ends and plant a few in another pot. They are slow to get going but you rarely lose any. I collected lots of the broken bits when I worked in a retail nursery - what a great way to increase my collection with new colours.</div>
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The pot of cuttings at the front are one year old - they will take off in spring. The rest are two years old and flowering for the first time. If you want a big bushy pot full, just plant lots in the pot!</div>
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-45960333697104366962015-05-31T01:21:00.000-07:002015-05-31T01:21:58.327-07:00Camellia Hedge - just beautiful<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Sasanqua Camellias</span> make a great hedge. They`re tougher and faster growing than their relatives, the slower growing, more formal, <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Camellia Japonica`s</span>. This was always a must have, when planing the garden many years ago, and the perfect spot was right along the driveway. Even when not in flower the rest of the year, the hedge is a neat green screen that requires only occasional pruning and feeding - so relatively low maintenance. I hedge with sharp hand held hedgers, which give a neat clean cut, about three times a year, so not too much trouble. They are relatively pest free as well.<br />
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It helps when the hedge is 45 metres long! Yep, bigger definetly has more impact when it comes to a flowering hedge. It`s taken about 10 years to get it to this stage - not because they grow slow, oh no, because my naughty puppy Golden Retriever- Sally, slowly dug up the first hedge one by one and chewed them to smitherines! So at great cost I planted for a second time, warning Sally it`s the pound for her if she dug this one up! <br />
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Now believe it or not, the two photos above are the same hedge -no trick photography - just taken at the beginning and the end of the flowering season. You see I planted the hedge with two varieties of <span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Sasanqua Camellias</span> -<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> Paradise Jessica</span>, a pale pink and<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> Paradise Caroline</span>, a deep pink. The pale one starts flowering first then becomes intermittent with the darker pink which then takes over for the grand finale. They have been flowering for over two months and still have more to give. And look at the beautiful pink carpet underneath.</div>
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It`s all about early pruning to get a nice compact hedge - there is nothing sadder than a straggly hedge showing it`s kneecaps. The trick is to tip prune from the day you plant. This will force the side shoots to grow, creating many more branches which means way more flowers of course.</div>
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<br />Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-48192871439807686582015-04-14T05:58:00.000-07:002015-04-14T05:58:59.811-07:00 Hunter Valley Gardens, Massive Christmas light display 2014<br />
Whilst recently visiting relatives in the Hunter Region, we decided to stay overnight at the Elegant Sebel Hotel -like a bygone era complete with an English Breakfast Conservatory overlooking a private rose garden and fountain, surrounded by winery country as far as you can see! Lovely.We caught up with some local friends for dinner and they suggested we go and see all the Christmas lights - 1.5 million of them!, artfully draped throughout the `Hunter Valley Gardens` after dinner - so that`s what we did!<br />
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The Hunter Valley Gardens are a spectacular during the day, but transform at night throughout December, into a truly amazing display of Christmas Lights.</div>
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There were sooo many families enjoying the night. Kids and parents had flashing head lights and wands. Little girls with their pretty fairy dresses, prams, teens, and grandparents, the lot. We were a little surprised at the entry cost af $25 per Adult, and only 3yrs and younger were free, making it an expensive treat at Christmas for the family. However, from the looks of awe and wonder on their little faces, it was well worth it.</div>
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<br />Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-89604346482755308552015-04-14T05:56:00.000-07:002015-04-14T05:56:49.428-07:00 Collectors Plant Fair - Look what I bought!<br />
Yes - this was the weekend for the <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">10th Collectors Plant Fair</span>. It`s Autumn here and the best time of the year for planting, so what a great time to host a fair who`s sole purpose is to bring together 54 Specialist Growers to purchase from. Hooray! It`s one whole weekend that you can peruse all the amazing plants you generally only see in specialist mail order catalogues.<br />
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My girlfriend and I go every year. She buys the tickets, I drive and get the coffees mid morning.<br />
You`ve got to whip around quickly to snap up some of the more rare, unusual and interesting plants, then go around again at a more leisurely pace, to peruse at length the individual stalls that really caught you eye. You can also attend a guest speaker session which is always fascinating.<br />
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My friend led us directly upon entry to the Specialist Begonia stall where I ought these beauties.I love the colours, patterns and texture of these foliage plants - the flowers are a small bonus.We both have a small collection of the beautiful leaved<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Rex Begonias</span> and were looking to find something special, which of course we did. I`m glad we got in early because they had sold out of the most interesting by lunch. There were so many choices, but of course the rarer a plant the dearer! It`s quite easy to spend a lot of money as you get carried away at the endless photo labels of hundreds of perennials promising flushes of the most amazing flowers. The lush displays of Bromlaids and <span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Carnivorous</span> plants and Orchids, Roses,Bulbs, Exotic Fruit trees - all there to buy!<br />
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Yes my friends, I had a a great spend up. I find a quirky pleasure at spreading out all of my treasures and admiring them. Then working out precisely where I`m going to plant them - where they will perform best. Like a lot of avid gardeners, I like to think I can grow most things, even when they are out of their own growing environment. I don`t always succeed, but I having a go. In a large garden like Bloomfield, there is always a spot to squeeze in another plant. I was looking for tough dry Shade plants this year, for a garden bed under trees. I think I`ll keep the Begonias in pots though as they are a bit tender for our winter. I like to group types of plants around the place for effect and ease of care.<br />
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This lovely red specimen is a small 2m shrub with the most amazing Autumn foliage called<br />
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Now this lush beauty is a Climber! It`s called <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Bignonia Magnifica</span>. The lady explained how she keeps hers as a shrubby mound, and just prunes of the tendrills occasionally - which is what I now plan to do as I`m running out of climbing structures and fences. I bought another climber as well, an evergreen perennial called <span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Cobaea Scandens</span> or Cathedral Bells. It has large purple cup and saucer shaped flowers.<br />
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I`ve always grown <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Geranium Cransebills</span>. This one is called <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Samobor</span> or Black Widow. What wonderful foliage, and the flowers are a deep maroon to purple.<br />
Over the years with drought and deluge I have lost many of these treasured purchases, so this is a great way to try some new ones.<br />
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Ive decided to grow some <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Nerines</span>. Mum bought some a few weeks ago at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show and of course now I want some. I bought this lovely red and a pretty pink one. And a<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> giant Scilla bulb </span>- a big Bluebells.<br />
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I bought a few interesting perennials of the <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Sanguisorba</span> family -`<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Blackthorn`</span> with ferny foliage and red flowers on tall stems and a smaller one with masses of red flowers held aloft like a halo called` <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Red Thunder`</span>. Also an unusual type of <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Salvia - `Przewalskii`</span>, with thick lush leaves and large velvety pink flowers. From the Friends of the Botanic Gardens stall, I bought some tube stock of <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Megaskepasma erythrochlamys</span>. A great winter flowering shrub with raspberry bracts all over. No wonder it`s nickname is Brazilian red cloak! This is a great stall to buy from as the unusual plants are cuttings from Sydney`s various Botanic Gardens. I also couldn`t resist another picotee <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Hellebore</span> to add to the collection around a tree, oh, and a hot pink <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Justicia </span>as well! I just couldn`t stop!<br />
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And before I sign off I wanted to show you one of the rare salvias I bought last year. It is in full glorious colour right now, so I couldn`t resist. This huge yellow flowering <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">salvia `Medrensis`</span> was just a tiny tube stock last year.....and look at it now, over 2m x 2m and growing!<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
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Roz Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12311344477802099791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766689698794131829.post-7961036798473155862015-04-13T04:28:00.000-07:002019-01-15T18:58:46.824-08:00Salvias, the last hurrah of AutumnIts fair to say that summer is hot hard work here in the outer west of Sydney. So when Autumn finally arrives we all breath a sigh of relief and watch nature transform our gardens into a tranquil and gentle haven. I`m pleased to report that all the little birds have come back into the garden, something that has not happened for over ten years! The invasive Indian Mynor bird has scared them off, I thought, for good! How wrong I was. First the little native Finches flittered and tittered all over the place, then I noticed the Willy Wag Tails here and there and then lots of shy Wrens started hopping out of shrubs and bushes. To my greatest surprise and joy, the little Honeyeaters are back! Only once before have I seen one of these charming little fellows hovering at a sweet flower - but this year I have a whole flock of the busy little guys. They are too fast to catch for a photo (I spent hours trying!) but I did get some video footage. They have spent a great deal of time in all the giant Salvias.<br />
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This particular one I picked up at a Plant Collectors Fair. Salvia Guaranitica - `Black and Blue is a very large and fast growing variety, reaching 130cm and spreading along the ground where it`s thick canes sprout rootlets when it touches the soil.</div>
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Salvias are great space fillers if you have the room. There seems to be one to fit every garden spot imaginable, even shade. Below is a relatively new release called Fionas Wish, and seems very happy in semi shade. The foliage is lusher than it`s hot dry relatives.</div>
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This Shade loving Salvia is a most unusual variety, hardly resembling the rest of it`s family. The large triangular foliage spreads by runners, and the flowers are a vibrant true blue. I`m sorry to say I have no record of this ones name. let me know </div>
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I`ve had this Salvia `Raspberry Sundae` for many years. It is a rich colour and always reliable. As with most Salvias, they tend to slowly spread until you must halt their progress with a spade.</div>
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There is a lot of pruning involved with these plants. Throughout the season you can let them go if you have ample room, although I tend to hack back regularly. Then at the end of winter it`s off with their heads! right back to the ground. A good handful of fertiliser and some fresh mulch then they`re off and away again.</div>
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Salvia `Waverly` is a purple and white bi-colour that never stops flowering. I love the crinkly textured foliage of this one.</div>
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This lush beauty is Salvia `Anthony Parker` and is one of the other sources of joy to all the little hummingbirds. I can see this one from my family room windows and often sit watching them frolic for sweet nectar.</div>
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All these hard working perennials (meaning we cut them back to the ground at the end of winter so they can renew themselves all over again) also play another major roll in my gardens - the endless source of pollen and nectar to my bees. Yes, we have a wonderful beehive in an old tree, way down in the farthest reaches of the garden.</div>
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Salvia microphylla `Margaret Arnold` has been growing happily for years in the garden. Quite a substantial plant, very heat hardy with strong upright stems. Like many salvias, it tends to spread by runners - yep, out with the spade when I need to slow its progress.</div>
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And these little beauties are this years purchases from the annual Plant Collectors Fair.</div>
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Salvia `Medrensis` was given to me by a friend who has a stall there. He promises me this massive growing variety is YELLOW! The other little fellow is Salvia `hians` and looks to be another interesting variety, short and hardy with large lush flowers - we shall see...</div>
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It`s easy to see why this vigorous climber earns it`s nickname the `snail vine` or `corkscrew vine`. </div>
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It is often referred to as Vigna Caracalla or Cochliasanthus Caracalla. Either way, it is a spectacular flowering, vigorous climber that has a very heavy sweet fragrance. </div>
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I put a few flowers into a small crystal vase on my kitchen window sill and couldn`t believe the heady fragrance filling the room!</div>
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The `Snail Vine` is a semi tropical vine that will quickly cover fences and sheds if it has a suitable climbing structure like chicken wire. It is one of the climbing `twining` vines, so will take off if it has something to curl and twine around. However, you don't have to live in the tropics to grow this beauty, you just have to treat it as an annual - it really does grow that fast. You will need warm summers and be able to keep the water up to it. </div>
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The plant can be propergated by cuttings, however, the easiest way is from the long bean pods that hang after the flowers are finished. They are usually pollinated by ants, and when they dry you can pop out the beans and plant next season. They come up readily like most bean seeds, just don't overwater them till they have shot as you will risk rot of the bean. With loads of lush foliage and an amazing scent these beauties are definitely worth a try. They will die off when it gets too cold for them, but they will come back in no time when the soils and weather warm up again.</div>
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The Shrimp Plant` is another aptly named flower. Botanically known as Justicia Brandegeeana, it is another unusual flowering plant that is easy to grow. It is commonly orange in colour but there is a yellow variety that has a slightly more upright habit.</div>
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The `Shrimp Plant` is a long lived small shrub that requires very little maintenance. My clump is 18 years old! I just cut it back to the ground every few years and throw a handful of fertiliser at it when I remember. It wont like freezing conditions but my winters get to zero and it always looks great.</div>
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It`s called a Dutchmans Pipe or Aristolochia. I grew this one from seed given to me with the dire warning ` keep your eye on it Roz or it will take over your garden`. Needless to say I keep one eye on it at all times, expecting it to pop up rampantly all over the place! It hasn`t, but I`m still a bit wary. I think the problem lies in it`s seed germinating all over the place, so I`m still on alert.</div>
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It is a woody twining vine with pretty heart shaped foliage that can often obscure the flowers. Being deciduous it should be positioned where you wont miss it in winter and don't let your helpful husband near it! cause it does look dead in winter.</div>
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This little beauty sits on my kitchen window sill and attracts lots of little flying insects into it`s hanging pitchers. I always find it fascinating when its time to cut an old one off, because it`s always half full of liquid that I have no idea how it got in there. I only water the plant from the bottom so how does it get in there? Don't know, but it`s a cool insect catching plant that is quite long lived.</div>
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Well that`s it for some of my more unusual flowering plants - I`m sure some of you grow interesting plants too - like a `bat` plant? If you haven`t seen my post about the <strong>`Queen of the Night`</strong><strong> </strong>you should check it out by clicking the link below. Now that`s a very unusual night flowering beauty, it`s sole purpose to attract a night moth with it`s strong sweet fragrance, then the flower is dead my morning. </div>
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It`s been Hot, it`s been Wet, it`s been Humid! What the heck? None of us, including the garden, are sure what`s going on and needless to say we`ve been mowing lush lawn twice a week! But it`s sooo hot and very humid where we are inland from Sydney and the sun is at it`s burning best with temps in the high 30`s most days. So naturally the garden has gone mad too. I have had to prune back miles of lush overgrown foliage and of course do battle with endless and relentless WEEDS!<br />
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Even the back lanes look great at the moment.</div>
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So it`s time to show you my lush summer garden......</div>
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The Roses are all enjoying the extra water. They were also given a good dose of Epsom Salts! A great natural mineral to aid healthy growth.</div>
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Of course the more blooms and growth, the more pruning and feeding is needed. I have been slack with the fertilisers this year, but what a boost for the garden to have bucket loads of rain full of ozone from all the afternoon storms.</div>
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The Vegie Patch looks great BUT the Tomatos have been overloaded with rain and are having a bad year with fungal disease. Still fighting blasted Fruit Fly which is stinging everything in sight!<br />
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The summer perennials are all starting to show off, like the perennial Phlox, Vincas and of course it`s the beginning of Dahlia flowering time. Big bold show offs. They must be staked to keep them upright and dead headed and fertilised regularly to keep the flowers BIG.<br />
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Our hot Summer favorites are just starting to show off - Crepe Myrtles. What a bold splash of colour.</div>
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Well I hope you enjoyed my garden as much as I have. Please leave a comment if you enjoyed this post. I`m always happy to reply.</div>
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