The winter garden

Despite it being winter, there is plenty of interest in the garden and new growth in the most unusual places. It seems that the late onset of cooler weather has confused some of the plants and they are having a second flowering, or have just not stopped flowering at all. It's been a wonderful year for the bromeliads, particularly the varieties that have performed poorly in the last few years. It's either because I fed the whole garden lavishly last spring and they got such a shock at having food that they are showing their excitement with extra large inflorescences, or it's a natural cycle. Whatever the cause, I have again bounce-backed the garden pending a winter shower or two and will hope for another good year.

Bromeliad

Your guess is as good as mine

Hebe

Polygala

Hibiscus buds are as attractive as the flower

Primula

 

Dipladenia never stops flowering

Pretty flowers of the rosemary bush

Strelitzia

Bottlebrush

 The clivias produce so many seeds, in addition to propaogating themselves via their root system, that I have decided to cultivate them in little bags for sale in a few years' time as established plants, rather than letting them fall to the ground and creating congestion among the clivias. Who knows what this could lead to?