September 2015 in the Southern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

It's officially the first day of spring in Australia!
And it's "Wattle Day"!
Here are a couple of Acacia in our garden:
Acacia podalyriifolia
Acacia acinacea (self sown in our rock garden so not absolutely sure about the ID)
cheers
fermi

[Parsla]

Hi Fermi, 

I have never heard of wattle day before.
Your prostrate acacia is pretty -  a little golden waterfall over the rocks..

Jamus, thank you kindly for the rundown. I didn't even know one could source all of those components! How on earth you mixed them together, I have no idea. I imagine you must have  thought deeply and tested quite a few mixes to obtain pH stability (and just a little moisture retention).  It was very helpful and will be squirreled away in the memory banks for an apt occasion.
 

Jacqui.

[Jupiter]

It was hard work Jacqui. Shoveled it all back and forth in the trailer several times, turning it over and mixing as I went until it was all homogenised. I was just chuckling at Bob Nold's facebook page the other day when he was complaining that his doctor told him to do more exercise and remarked that "gardening is not exercise". I beg to differ!

ps. welcome to spring everyone.

[Anthony Darby]

Acacias have been flowering for a while here. The pollen gets everywhere, as seen on the surface of our storm water ponds. No idea where the plants that produced this pollen are, as there are none around us.

[Jupiter]

Anthony, that looks like pine pollen to me. Acacias get a bad rap for causing hay fever, but they have sticky pollen and hold on to it. Pines and grasses and wind pollinated and let it fly willy-nilly.

[fermi de Sousa]

I have never heard of wattle day before.
Your prostrate acacia is pretty -  a little golden waterfall over the rocks..

Hi Jacqui,
Wattle day is a revival of an idea that got scuppered by WW1! http://www.wattleday.asn.au/
The golden waterfall is only like that because we cut down the rest of the shrub as it was getting too big for where it had put itself! I'm being pushed to get rid of it altogether!
cheers
fermi

[Hillview croconut]

Hi All,

No wattles (although the Silver Wattles are bursting gold seams up the mountain slopes) but I can continue the yellow theme.

Fritillaria aurea
Fritillaria pudica
Fritllaria sibthorpiana ssp enginiana

Cheers, M

[Parsla]

Hi Fermi, thank you for the wattle day link. Clearly my education is lacking… Are you trying to tell me you do not have a prostrate acacia, but a bonsai?

Jamus - i could do with your muscle here!

…and your frits are little short of amazing Marcus. The sibthorpiana is especially appealing.

I have some yellow to show too - again, not wattle but a lone bough of kerria japonica pleniflora.

Followed by the delicate lemon blooms of Hawera, an epimedium (i think the cultivar is 'mardi gras' from clover hill), pulmonary 'sissinghurst white, with its delicately marked foliage, and an indigo Hepatica nobilis - which surely came from Marcus.

Jacqui.

[t00lie]

Time to 'biff' the yellow theme I think  .....
 
Various Cyclamen coum are enjoying the continued cool wet weather here ..........

[t00lie]

In the sand crevice bed Androsace rigida is just coming out of winter rest with new growth starting to expand.

[t00lie]

I counted over 20 buds on this clump of Olsynium douglasii 'Album'. Unfortunately it doesn't look like they are going to open all at once ........
Clump and 'arty' shot.

[Jupiter]

Yes I agree the Fritillaria are gorgeous Marcus.

T00lie, your Cyclamen coum look so happy in your garden. I just love them.

A few from my jaunt around the garden this morning.

[Jupiter]

I'm enjoying Globularia cordifolia in the crevice bed. Thanks Otto!

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony, that looks like pine pollen to me. Acacias get a bad rap for causing hay fever, but they have sticky pollen and hold on to it. Pines and grasses and wind pollinated and let it fly willy-nilly.

I suppose it just depends on which source you believe?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/opinion/blogs/editors-blog/5523666/Pollen-coating-on-everything

[Jupiter]

They are wrong Anthony. Walk up to a wattle and try to shake pollen off it. You won't see any clouds. Pines on the other hand... hold your breath!