Spring Flowers

Lots of flowers on my balcony. How I love flowers!

My standard fuschia & hanging basket fuschia are all in flower

My climbing rose, Pierre de Ronsard, is flowering & is stunning

 

 

 

 

My just Joey rose has had two blooms so far

 

I have a few mini peaches on my dwarf peach tree

 

 

Oregano has lots of new growth

My maples are just gorgeous

Here's inaba shidare with all it's new spring growth

 

 

 

Sango kaku is pretty & bright green

The aureum is tiny but so pretty

 

Loving this warm weather.

Happy gardening,

Bel

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Winter Watering on the Balcony

Winter. I do not like you. You are cold & boring & cold. I realise you are necessary in the grand scheme of things but you are cold & boring.

So, this time of year does not inspire me to garden. Yesterday morning there was sun, it was freezing, but the sun was shinning, so me & little helper watered the pot plants. It's not the first time I've watered them all winter by the way, It's just the first time I felt like taking pretty pictures.

Everything is either dormant or recently pruned.

Sango Kaku is just a bunch or red twigs. It's quite beautiful really.

My tulip or daffodil bulbs have sprouted! I actually can't remember what is where but I like a flower surprise.

When I planted them

and now their little sprouts

Can't wait to see them!

A little ray of sunshine, on a cloudy day.

I pruned my fuchsia's back quite a bit, so here's some new growth.

 

 

Stay warm gardeners,

Bel

 

Decorative Stone Crazy

As I mentioned in a previous post, I found bags of decorative stone on special for $2 each at bunnings a few weeks ago & basically bought them all over the weeks. I really like the pretty stones.

We all went to check out the new Masters in Preston the other day & it was pretty impressive. The best part was finding a 5kg bag of white stones for $5! Much cheaper than bunnings & they didn't have white. I really wanted white stones for my inaba shidare Japanese maple but had to settle for grey. Well, now I had a cheap bag of pretty white stones, I got to have white after all.

 

 

The title of this post is "Stone Crazy" so here are all the other stones & coloured sands I picked up.

I put some bright red sand in my fuschia & on top of my daffodil bulbs. I quite like how striking it is.

 

 

I put some pretty big river stones in my coffee plant pot.

On my other balcony I put river stones in my standard Rosemary's pot & White stones around my thyme.

 

Before

After

Finally put the rest of my white stones over my tulip bulbs & some bright pink sand in my fuschia basket & my little fuschia in the small terracotta pot plus some green stones in with my standard fuschia.

 

 

See, stone crazy!

Really disliking winter. Come one Spring!!!!

Stay warm readers,

Bel