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I still don't have a "proper" garden, but I have a few things in pots and I've been doing some severe pruning which has unearthed all sorts of stuff! Walnuts! No sign of a walnut tree! Three very BIG trees that I think are cherry or plum. And a very prickly native which I can't be certain of!
The Jacaranda is from our Australia garden; also the Trachelospermum jasminoides - But taken since last year's pics.
My grand old stalwart Trachelospermum. Yes, I have it here (actually, in the niece's side of the garden; not quite flowering here yet.)
Petrea volubilis, which I had in several gardens; have yet to find one here.
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Google objects to file sizes! I'll try to re-size the next lot!
I'll try to find a few more, but I'll send these now before Lord Effingham-Google says the file is too big!
I've got some muddled!
[Like many of you, Dinah sent batches of photos & captions in a few emails because of "Lord Effingham-Google", but not all of the captions matched up to the attached photos... Hopefully I've managed to sort them all out - IDV]
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Magnolia. No, of course I didn't plant it!
Look at the size of that thing!
(I cheated a wee bit as this was taken at bro-in-law's place;
we were living there at the time so it counts!)
Arum lilies
I call them Bill and Ben.
(From a very old English TV show for kiddies.)
Camelia
French lavender
(at the time, sharing terrace space with herbs)
Native tree fern (removed as niece doesn't want it!!!)
Orange-flowered Clivia (above), with seedling of a native timber tree which I think is Miro - AKA spiky bastard.
Pectinopitys ferruginea, commonly known as miro and brown pine, is a species of tree in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a dioecious evergreen conifer, reaching heights of up to 25 metres, with a trunk up to 1–1.5 metres in diameter (Wikipedia)
And, below, a better picture, but I sacrificed some blood to get it!
Pittosporum crassifolium - Maori name Karo. Salt-hardy so is often used as coastal hedging. Its nectar is a Tūī favourite.
English lavender, which is "not wanted beside the pond" so will be moved to my patch. (That ugly-looking stick is its root!).
Guessing flowering cherry or plum?
[Judging by the bark, I'm going with cherry - IDV]
Basket of pansies
NZ Rock Lily
Rengarenga (Maori) Arthropodium cirratum commonly known as rengarenga, renga lily, New Zealand rock lily, or maikaika, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant, endemic to New Zealand, where it may once have been farmed. It is used for medicine as well as food, and has symbolic importance in traditional Māori culture. Wikipedia
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I'd better tell you now that Jon is correct in his ID of a mystery plant here. And the leaves appeared silvery 'cos it was "not very well." A brutal pruning and general tidy-up and the Vireya rhododenron's leaves are green again!
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Anyway, thank you so much for showing us your new garden in New Zealand. We can only wonder what it will look like this time next year!
Fabulous, even in its "infancy"!
ReplyDeleteHow could anyone not want a tree-fern?! Jx
PS "Basket of Pansies" just about sums up the bulk of the readership here, methinks 😍
Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men! Nobody knows who I'm talking about when I mention them. At last, someone who knows.
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