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These are the flowers we had in the garden in mid-autumn 2024, taken a month after the equinox. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos is to record what was in the garden at the time.
The biggest difference is clearly the removal of the Acacia melanoxylon to the south of the house. Here two weeks ago and last Saturday (run the cursor over an image to compare it with its neighbour):
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It's been a while since I looked at our Adenanthos sericeus. Gradually they're growing, after only about 8 years:
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The Banksia serrata has finally produced many flowers:
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So as I suspected, it seems to be a matter of the season. If only the other plants would grow as well.
The Clematis is also sill producing a few autumn flowers:
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And the Grevillea robusta is finally growing, after only five years.
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The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Uncle Max” also seems to have recovered from its freezing a couple of years ago:
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The Magnolia that we got last year is losing its leaves, but it has almost no buds. Here this time last year and today:
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I fear I should have put much more fertilizer on it.
The Abutilons are looking good, but they're barely flowering:
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I think that here, too, my laziness with fertilizer is showing.
But this wild bush that we planted a year or so ago suddenly looks almost dead. For some reason I don't seem to have mentioned it before, but it grew happily through the summer, and since last month it seems to have died. Here photos from November, last month and now:
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What causes that? Will it recover? I suspect that Yvonne's heavy-handedness with glyphosate might have something to do with it, but that doesn't explain the other plants growing round the base.
Here are the rest:
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