Australia and New Zealand

[ichristie]

Hi everyone, Ann and I have been away to visit our Daughter in Australia then over to New Zealand, We were very lucky to meet up with several forumist along the way and we had some great hospitality saw so many fantastic plants it will take me a year to sort them out. I do have notes somewhere what the plants are but where?. I will post some pictures fro Australia first the area we visited was around Ferny creek Near Olinda ? Fermi, Otto and friends looked after us thank you all. cheers Ian the Christie kind.
The T shirt looks small now and Ann was nagging me. I said that the T must have shrunk in the wardrobe she replied ' best hang yourself up in the wardrobe as well see if you can shrink a bit'.

[mark smyth]

I like the mulch under the kangaroo paw. Would that work in a damp UK garden

[angie]

Love the Celmisa in the last picture.
I love what Ann said ( I said that the T must have shrunk in the wardrobe she replied ' best hang yourself up in the wardrobe as well see if you can shrink a bit' ). 
Looking forward to see somemore from your trip.

Angie
 

 

[Paddy Tobin]

Ian,

It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday, certainly I would love to do such a trip. Also, great to meet other forumists and fellow "Rockers".

I am now looking forward to lots and lots of interesting photographs and I'm sure you will have quite a few with such interesting names as, "Wee Shrub". Obviously, it must have had Scottish origins.

Paddy

[John Kitt]

Oh is that what it is.

I was going to get one to stop the dog placing his "blessings" on EVERY SECOND plant in the garden  -- with disastrous results.

[Ray]

Unknown pic looks like Isoplexis canariensis.bye Ray

[ichristie]

Hi again, thanks to everyone for posts. We visited a Garden centre in Essenden where our daughter lives so some pictures from there and jus in gardens along the way, most interesting plants. One thing the are has had a drought for 10 years guess what it poured rain for two days when we were there and the river rose 6ft,  cheers for now Ian the Christie kind.

[Paddy Tobin]

The proteas are fabulous.

Paddy

[ichristie]

We visited a super garden in the Dandenogs where we saw some of the Best Rhodos sso big and what really took my eye were Lemon trees with lemons on then alongside the Rhodos. The garden was 8 acres on a well laid out slope, pictures to follw, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Paddy Tobin]

A wonderful garden and a contradiction to my imagined view of Australian gardens.

Beautiful photographs, Ian.

Paddy

[angie]

A wonderful garden and a contradiction to my imagined view of Australian gardens

Paddy

I to didn't expect Australian gardens to be like that, so many lovely Rhododendrons.
Nice to see so much colour, forgot how things could look got so used to everything being White.

Angle 

[Otto Fauser]

Ian and Ann , so nice to see your faces again on the forum and to hear that you enjoyed your trip to the Antipodes . Your last posting of 7 th. Dec. -the large garden 'Forest Glade' is not in the Dandenongs but on Mt. Macedon , altitude around 600 -700 meters . , just slightly higher than here in Olinda , in The Dandenongs .( an Aboriginol name )

  Angie , the Celmisia in my garden is C. asteliifolia , native to our alps in Victoria and NSW. -it is not happy growing down in Melbourne -almost at sealevel , but very much at home up here in my garden and spreading gently by runners .

[ichristie]

Dear Otto, thanks for that please keep me corrected with the plant names as well, we had such a great time and have returned to severe winter, I will post some more pictuers tonight from Australia but meantime this is what we came home to at the Nursery,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

Dear all, a few more pictures from Australia, we visited a distillery as well so found a special whisky, plants are important but we need some refreshments. cheers, Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

Next set, Ian