HortyPaul

Note to aggressive, self-interested world "leaders" (including Putin, Netanyahu, Trump)......

MAKE COMPOST NOT WAR!

#bloomscrolling #Palestine #Venezuela #Greenland #Ukraine

It's a sign! - on the archway at the entrance to the "Garden of Love" Second photo looking from the edible garden into aforesaid area - purple larkspur on the left, towering "Dutch Cream" potatoes and "Queen Elizabeth" rose on the right. Rosa mutablis in the centre. Glorious 24C (75F) here today.

This is NOT the vegetable garden of my youth where grand parents grew crops in regimented rows.
No. To me fruit and vegetables have their own beauty. When I mix them up a little with flowers, I have my own green prescription, a home-grown remedy for physical and mental health!

Agreed. The right will say that migrants already in the country have to accept "Australian Values" - whatever the hell they are?
Plants can be so much nicer than people whether native or exotic.

Thanks Prabhatha Alia,
Time for you to post some flowers!
Cheers from southern Australia to wherever you are!

Hey Milly,
Yes, really beautiful but I really love the roses and hydrangeas in your Botanic Gardens

Yes Anthony!
Horribly the voices of empty, hate-filled vessels are now louder than the majority of decent, loving and accepting Australians. I am so proud of our multicultural country!
PS I'm on Bunurong lands (Central Gippsland Vic) where are you?

Wow! Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of another unusual rose - "Joseph's Coat"

Hey Zack,
Thanks for liking my posts - great rose, same colour when it opens?

Time for something "outside the box" for all those bloomscrolling. A Western Australian beauty, the "desert rose" Diplolaena grandiflora - even great as a cut flower!
With what's been happening "down under" I really need cheering up, so what's flowering at yours?
#flowers #Australia #bloomscrolling

Even my beautiful country, Australia is not immune to the "New World (dis)order".
Love must triumph over hate.
Stay safe my gardening friends.
#australia #bondi #flowers

This part of our garden is known as, "The Garden of Surprises" - we randomly deadhead and drop seeds and bulbs wherever they land, being surprised by what sprouts forth - Dahlias, Russell Lupins and Larkspur.
Nature is the garden designer - me? the apprentice!
#flowers #australia #potager #summer

More early summer flowers - I just couldn't resist!
The vegetable garden is now awakening - on the menu from the garden tonight; spinach pie with basil and dill plus lettuce and potato salad followed by berry flummery with strawberries and youngberry sauce. Life's good!
#australia #potager #flowers

Hi all,
Haven't posted for, well....a while. Spring into Summer means I've just been sooo busy pottering about!
Photos; "Black Iris" as well as a vase of cut flowers and where they've all come from - our garden.
And the work of our hands will always come back to us!
#flowers #australia #potager

Some Penstemons in the back yard to hopefully put some "zing" in that leg!
Have just come in from one of those tiring days of pruning - cutting back a New Zealand stunner ("Kaka Beak" _ Clianthus maximus) to allow the mist flower and fuchsias underneath a bit of breathing space. Great chatting!

A type of gladioli, usually called "Bridal Veil" in Oz

Flowers from our garden "down under"
Hope you're back with hands in the soil soon!

Yes, Honey Girl, sadly, Australia has a disturbing history that isn't recognised. 237 years of ecological destruction as opposed to 60000 of sustainable living - so much to be proud of in our First Nations Peoples. Many of us continue the fight for Truth, Treaty, Voice!

Welcome to Australia Honey Girl!
Are you also visiting beautiful Victoria????

Gee....um....spring is approaching down under in Southern Australia! Geum "Tangerine" flowering in our garden.
This time of year always feels like "two steps forward, one step back" - enticed with warmer days, followed by a cold rebuttal!

Our front yard - a mix of Australian species suited to a cool temperate climate and sandy soils. Eucalypts, Tea Trees (Leptospermum sp., Coastal Rosemary (Westringia sp.) Very different to posts from cold northern climes but I'm hoping your summer pics will warm my heart as we descend into Winter!

In October last year our little house and garden received the Australian Institute of Horticulture Green Space Residential Design Award. Australian followers will know the hirsute gentleman with microphone as TV gardening celebrity, Costa. It was a great night!

Path leading into the "Garden of Love" - the garden outside our bedroom window. Penstemons, Aquilegia, Lavender, Roses. I just take a stroll to the left when overburdened by the rantings of selfish, self-important, little white men.

I hope I'm wrong...
but, things are going to get nasty.
We all love gardens that are full of lots of different plants. We should all be able celebrate diversity in everything..... including people!
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Love and support from Oz.

Gardeners we have a problem! Our rampant pumpkin, "Anna Swartz".
Anna just won't be limited by the confines of the garden bed - no! She's now climbing on our bedroom roof.
My wife is concerned that she will awake wrapped in it's determined tendrils!
But, boy there are some lovely pumpkins to be had!

Yep, I have runners sweating their way past my back fence and I sometimes wonder if they'd "go the distance" with a solid eight hour gardening day! Just remember,
"The work of a gardeners hands will come back to them" .... in spades???

Thanks. Wow, What a great island, Gigi - was lucky enough to visit with RBG Sydney many years ago. I'm near Wilsons Prom so a lot colder than you, bit jealous of your temperate climate - are you still getting droughts?

Wow! I'm on what can be best described as "dirty sand" but, I think you win! (not that it's a competition).

Just beautiful Diana - any orchid photos?

Hello Gigi,
Where are such beauties growing?