BETTY WARREN WOODS again showing fine substance.

I took this in the early evening hoping the colour would be true. But the pic is lighter and less yellow than the actual bloom, and again the pic has an apricot hue on the petals which I see only on the sepals. It still looked brand new at 10:30pm tonight.

All flowers are liking the cool weather. Cut flowers are lasting nicely inside which is a contrast with summer when they look terrible after 2 days. I have had a snapdragon inside looking great for at least 2 weeks now. Before I cut it, it looked great outside for a few weeks. They are wonderful plants. They seem to tolerate pretty awful dryness.

Nikki. I think kookas are found all over Australia including our southern areas and places where there are miserable wet winters. But nearly all of Australia has hot summers which increasingly are too hot. I hope the ones in Yorkshire came from one of the cooler wetter parts of Aus. as they probably have been naturally selected over generations for best adaptation to the local conditions.

I am sorry you have pain from injuries. I find it hard to limit what I do when my body lets me do things but I pay for it later. Last night I even stole a Valium from my dog who shudders uncontrollably when there is even very distant thunder. Tonight I have taken a NSAID hoping I can sleep well, as I must do at least a little more digging tomorrow.

Glad the pictures will continue. BWW looking great.
As for the name of the thread...got me thinking...if I started digging, just where would I pop up on the other side?????

Do we need to send you shovels

looks like I would just drown.

Pam, looks like I would pop up not to far from you and would be shark bait.

In recent times there have been plenty of shark attacks on beaches on the west coast of Aus, but also on the eastern coast not far from here. When I lived in Paris people would say "oh les antipodes". Even in the '70s they considered it the ends of the earth.

BETTY WARREN WOODS sure is an extended bloomer (at this time of year anyway). I should have got a pic early today, but here it is 30 hours after opening. The bloom from the day before it hasn't fallen off yet in spite of wind. When there's not much flowering even these vestiges look good. Especially near my violet alyogyne which has its first flower ever. I love the foliage now it has recovered from whatever was eating it.

Beautiful

Ahh, lucky Bron and Glen, the season is upon you.

I can confirm that the day you started this thread, Glen, I woke up to a lovely, heavy frost. Today however, it was teasingly warm. Ha. I shall not be tricked you wicked spring imps! I know that more ice is on the way. The daylilies don't seem to be aware of it. All winter they have tried to push scapes. The buds just kind of sit there, never opening. Poor things. I feel guilty for growing them here.

Bugger that EFTP x BS hangs even in your climate Glen, I shall have to pull it out and, oh... make a stir fry or some such with it.

that baby Masked Lapwing

Bron--hope the valium worked, it is hard to pace , esp. if you have had several days when you haven't been able to do anything and want to catch up, you never know when your next "good" day is going to turn up after all!

It's something all the doctors and physical therapists just never seem to understand.

Lucky me had 3 lovelies bloom today. It is only 3 months since I bought these three and put them in pots of compost and clay with big chunks of pine bark in the bottom.
FFE on PINK JUBILATION which has a nice copper/gold edge. It is a large flower and seems fragrant even in the wind and sun. No eyezone except for an orange throat extending from green one.


Also FFE for me of BETTY WOODS which is a bit more golden than the pic. Love it too.


BETTY WARREN WOODS joined them. It had quite a bit of rust but I kept ripping off the ends of leaves, and with the dry weather it seems to have quietened down.

Love Pink Jubilation especially!

Nice ones, bron

Della
I hope your buds open soon. Mine appeared a long time ago and only plumped up in the last week. Maybe the longer days has done it, or my watering. With the wind and sunny days I thought even more buds would fall off, so I have been watering pots nearly every day to keep them moist. Have u had much rain this winter? Were June, July Aug all 2 deg C hotter than long term average as in the rest of Aus? Global warming is going to make it very difficult to grow things here. Last year was terrible.

I am enjoying the cooler weather and wouldn't mind a frost. Our lows are a bit up and down. But I got a fright one morning when a huge lizard scuffed about in some leaves then went up a tree. Haven't see many goannas here, but I now there are some. I did not disturb it by taking a closer look.

I am a bit worried that my copious mulching of plants with leaves will allow snakes to be hard to see. So need to be vigilant day and night.

Nice blooms Bron

had to take a pic of my FFE of MOONLIGHT MIST. Reaching for a slug I broke it off the night b4 it would have properly opened. Even though we've had no rain for a couple of months the slugs and snails love the heavy dew that forms after sunset. This morning here it was again less than 5 deg C (40 F). I appreciate that as the sun is already very hot.

I propped it on the alyogyne. It is more orange than I thought it would be. But a very nice apricot colour like SPACECOAST RUFFLES.

Another FFE, GARDEN GODDESS, but it didn't open properly even the following day, no doubt because it is so dry. Had to take a pic as who knows what might happen to the rest of the buds and the plant.

Oops. Thought I would edit the duplicate post. Another FFE from ones bought this May, BE THINE. It really is fairly lavender pink. The double edge is a definite lavender slightly grey colour. It sure has not disappointed me. And flowering so early and so soon!! Any that flower b4 the blast furnace weather r extra welcome. It doesn't appear too bad on the rust front, although it is hard to tell with the current dry and cool. Another morning less than 40 deg. But that won't last alas.

My edge closeups were all out of focus. Don't know which of these shows them best.

In and out of hospital. Nothing serious. Oh, the slow healing being diabetic.

DALRIADA was up and running last and this week.