Okay, it's not quite bloom day meme time yet but I couldn't resist posting a few pics of plants currently in bloom in the garden, plus a few curiosities as well.
The Zantedeschia 'Hercules' is going strong and is mainly grown for its tropical looking, relatively gigantic leaves. The bloods aren't too bad either though.
Kniphofia thomsonii is putting up a good and long lasting floral show as always. The first photo was how it was last week. The second pics was how it was last weekend.
They remind me of flames
Speaking of flames, the trees that were on the area where the garden fire we had a couple of years ago had started is still standing. I don't think our neighbor where those trees are will ever remove them so we'll just have to get used to their sight on our horizon (we are already). But at least the pineapple bush, Cytisus battandieri is doing a good job for now in distracting from it.
Now on to the curiosities, I can't remember at the moment which ones are Cyclamen hederifolium or Cyclamen coum but at the moment they are just weird looking (but oddly nice too) displays. Quite cool aren't they?
Back on to blooms there's the hardy tree tomato Cyphomandra corymbiflora doing it's usual annual bloom display...
Our well behaved (so far) Acanthus mollis is not far off now to a full floral display...
In our working area/pot ghetto this Isoplexis canariensis in bloom was a nice surprise...
A plant that we highly recommend for being rather undemanding and gets better every year. And it's evergreen too when it looks like it shouldn't, the evergreen Solomon's Seal Disporopsis pernyi.
And finally, a squashed Magnolia macrophylla bloom...
Just shows how many things are happening in the garden at the moment!
Mark :-)
