What's Looking Good In April 2020

Sat out yesterday for four hours and captured a few flores coming into bloom ...

Melaleuca (Tea Tree) ...



Iochroma cyanea just coming into bud following it's massive manicure ...


Hibbertia scandens is covered in blooms on top ... but difficult to photograph from below ...

 

Hi Woo, your Pelargoniums are looking great,. Can't wait to see them in flowee

 

T'other Half kindly climbed up a ladder for me to get a better shot of the Hibbertia ...

 

I am pleased with the progress the four pittosporum Tom Thumb I acquired for the front garden (with advice from all of you!) are now making. As there is still room to spare in their pots this year, I have added in some oxalis Iron Cross. I suspect I may end up needing to take those out in due course but meanwhile the two sets of bi-tone foliage should be fun together:


One already has a pink flower:


And in the old water cistern Nepeta Seven Hills Giant has also really taken off this year! Beyond it is a spider plant, and a dwarf pomegranate which should have lovely scarlet flowers in a month or so's time.

 

@Victoria - your Hibbertia is fantastic! Pity it's too tender for UK. Mine is now in full flower, but a bit less dramatic...

 

Neolitsea

Azara serrata

Choisya ternata


Tulip Queen of the Night


Buddleja colvilei

Incarvillea mairei

Buddleja salvifolia

Aquilegia


Aquilegia "Chocolate Soldier"

 

Sarracena red

Allium akaka

Allium nevskianum

Scilla cilicica

Arisaena taiwanense cinereus

 

I like that Neolitsia, NigelJ! Never heard of it before....Those young leaves look a bit tender to withstand hot sun and wind, though?

 

@noisette47 I don't think it would take wind and sun very well, in fact it's hardiness is questionable. However I got it in September 2017 and it came through the Beast from the East with little damage and the two hot dry summers since. It comes from the mountains if Taiwan and is found in woodland there, it also prefers acid soils.

 

A better picture of the Vestia foetida.

Asimina triloba.

Ceanothus "concha"

Cut the Aesculus hard back this winter giving the Butia capitata room to breathe.

Cant wait any longer, not fully open yet but Leucospermum "tango", first flower.

And Ginger, who is he????Just wanders in and sits with me, aint got a clue who he belongs to.

 

It's all looking good pete. Obviously I think Ginger looks good, what gorgeous fur! I think at one time my hair was that colour.

 

I think he is pretty old, I've known him for about 8 yrs, and he had a nasty limp a couple of weeks ago, so didn't see him for a while, but hes back now.