SPRING IS UNDERWAY and the news has to be all about flowers now and finally the gardens have got to the stage that they are starting to do their own thing and I am only here to stop it getting out of hand and to keep the lawns mown so as to show the flowers off.
The magic carpet of spring bulbs goes through it's colour palette all too quickly. The Clivia are clumping up quickly now they are established and every flower is pouring out its individual perfume - hard on my sinuses, but hey it's worth it. Here are some recent photographs, starting with a colour change series of the bulbs - but missed catching the daffodils which start it off. There was also supposed to be a photograph of the minute flower of the native Kanuka tree which covers this Island which has the strongest, sweetest perfume of all - but this site says I have loaded enough photographs,so I'll put it in comments.
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| The daffodils have finished |
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| The gold freesias comes first then the orange spraxias |
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| Now the blues and purples enter |
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| Crowding out the border of blue grape hyacinths lining the path |
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| Hard to photograph the Clivia owing to too much luminance |
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| This orchid escaped through fence into stored garden pots area |
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