December 2015 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos. Mostly plants that will take our hot summer heat.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos.

[Maggi Young]

I know it is just wishful thinking but I swear I can smell those lilies and roses   

[Jupiter]

Digitalis laevigata, looking great but the hot weather forecast for the weekend is likely to fry it to a crisp. 

[Maggi Young]

I just LOVE these Digitalis  - well, all digitalis, but these  darker coloured species especially.

[Matt T]

The contrast between the rusty flowers and white lip is delicious!

[Jupiter]

I just LOVE these Digitalis  - well, all digitalis, but these  darker coloured species especially.

Yes me to Maggi. I love lanata and ferruginea too, but neither persist. I was lead to believe that lanata was "reliably perennial'', but that hasn't proven to be true. I have seedlings which will flower next year though.

[t00lie]

Podophyllum pleianthum is flowering well this season.

[Jupiter]

Podophyllum are so luscious and moreish aren't they? I'm going to wait until we move before giving in to the temptation. Lovely plants t00lie.

[Lesley Cox]

Yesterday while pulling a few little weeds, I found a stem of flowers on Podophyllum delavayi, even though the whole plant has not yet produced more than a single leaf each year and it's the smallest of the 3 plants I have, so well done little plant. The flowers are very like those of 'Spotty Dotty,' not surprisingly.

I had 22 members of Balclutha Garden Club arrive last evening about 7pm. I knew from September that they were coming and had had a reminding phone call just on Friday night, yet still had managed to forget all about it. So had to drop getting tea ready and rush out to be hospitable. Nice ladies though and they left me a long list of what they want next time! Will have to propagate some quite odd things as well as heaps of dianthus, saponarias etc.

[t00lie]

Podophyllum are so luscious and moreish aren't they? I'm going to wait until we move before giving in to the temptation. Lovely plants t00lie.

They sure are Jamus .I just wish there were more species available here in NZ as I'd like to try and grow a number of them for the foliage alone .

Lesleys flowering P. delavayi is a wonderful start .

Currently Dactylorhiza , with variations of foliage spotting and flowering colour are in bloom ... Maybe I need to have another cull.....

[fermi de Sousa]

Nice looking wood-landers, Dave
Here, we are heading into a summer which would fry those to a crisp!
New in our garden is Indigofera pseudotinctoria which we got from Roy Pavelin.
We planted it at the edge of a new raised bed in the winter and it's only just coming into flower,
cheers
fermi

[Herman Mylemans]

They sure are Jamus .I just wish there were more species available here in NZ as I'd like to try and grow a number of them for the foliage alone .

Lesleys flowering P. delavayi is a wonderful start .

Currently Dactylorhiza , with variations of foliage spotting and flowering colour are in bloom ... Maybe I need to have another cull.....

Beautiful garden Dave!

[t00lie]

Nice looking wood-landers, Dave

Beautiful garden Dave!

Thank's Fermi and Herman for those kind words ---You know it's just my little 'play pen' 

Here's a devils claw ,(Physoplexis comosa), not as tight in growth as I would like it however yummy all the same ...and a close up showing pollen along the style .I've been told that once the sigmas reflex into quite a spiral shape then they will become more receptive to selfing .There appears to be that much pollen on each I'm not waiting and going to experiment and use a blade of grass to transfer pollen onto some of the more advanced stigmas ........

[Lesley Cox]

Mine's in bloom too Dave but I can't claim much credit as it was in bud as soon as it emerged from the pot surface, I having just very recently bought it from Hokonui.