winter garden update

Here is one of the agapanthus plants that were divided.  It's looking healthy, though not yet a thing of beauty.

Blue fescue is complemented by self seeded Love in the mist.

Tiny pink buds on the bare branches of the crab apple tree give a hint of spring flowers to come.  Growing underneath and nearby, bearing winter flowers are the pink flowers of Australian natives Correa Dusty Bells and the paler pink of Thryptomene saxicola F.C. Payne. You can also see the lime green self seeded hellebore in flower.

N gave me some Canna indica from his garden, which is much more showy and tropical looking than mine. I stuck it in a corner because I couldn't think where to plant them. More than a decade later they are still there. During this rainy year they have become statuesquely tall. Impressive I think even without the red flowers.

The violets do need to be culled every so often but they always come back. 

You can see why these are called fish bone fern. Weedy and common they may be, but they are welcome here.

 A diamonded drop of dew carefully held in a Derwentia perfoliata leaf-cup.

 Re-arranging has meant that the Alygyone shrubs were moved at least 6 times. I have placed arrows to identify them - when they grow taller I think they will look good. This is unlikely to happen before the spring garden opening, so viewers will need to exercise their imaginations.

Other plants in this unestablished, immature garden bed include perennial artichokes and biennial echiums.   I think they will look wonderful together, but the full effect will not be seen for some time.