Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day November 2014

What a difference a month makes!  Last Bloom Day only one of my daylilies had flowered; this month probably three quarters are out.  I have been conscientiously noting which ones and retagging.  After moving some last year, I lost a lot of tags and unfortunately, a few plants, so I am taking stock.

 

It is officially still Spring here in Brisbane, but the temperature is seriously Summer - 40 deg C predicted for today. It was too much for one of my parsley plants yesterday; it turned up its toes and expired despite having had a good soaking to prepare it earlier in the day. Hopefully, there will be no more casualties today.

 

On the fifteenth of every month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day where gardeners around from world share what is happening in their gardens. Here is my offering for November. 

 

 

Daylily 'Ash Rosie'

'Spacecoast Whiteout'

'All American Tiger'

 


'Percivile James'

 

  

'Velvet Rose'

'Strawberry Fields Forever'

'Just a Tease'

'Jordan Verhaert' - colour is stronger than this bloom would suggest.

'Isis Unveiled'

'Finish with a Flourish'

'Passion for Life'

'Passions Promise'

 

 

'Russian Ragtime' with purple basil in the background

 Here are a couple of views of the front garden where you can see how I have tried to create a daylily border.

This spot looks a bit bare but I have a hedge of gardenia in progress and a cutting of a pretty pink shrub.

'Eyes for you' - the rose gifted by my neighbour is still blooming.

Candy pink Plumeria.

Oncidium Orchid 'Dancing Lady' is a mass of yellow

  

 

Love this two-toned Desert Rose - Adenium

 

I brought this Cattelya Orchid into the house so I could enjoy it.

 

The Phalaenopsis Orchid I got for my birthday is keeping it company.

Not all the garden beauties are in technicolour.
  

November lily - another gift from my neighbour

 

 

Gardenia 'Professor Pucci'

Night-scented Jessamine - inconspicuous flower but stunning scent

Randia - native gardenia

Magnolia 'Little Gem'

  But closer to the house are some more flamboyant blooms.

Stunning Epiphyllum

The first time one of my pale pink ones has flowered.

This week Brisbane has been hosting the G20 summit. Hope the world leaders enjoy our tropical colour!  The jacarandas have almost finished blooming, but they were glorious this year. Their place in the streetscapes is quickly being taken by the scarlet Poinciana trees.

I spotted this beautiful Petrea, aka Queen's Wreath, Bluebird Vine, Sandpaper Vine in front of an old house near me. It is in the very same shade as the jacarandas.

Isn't it glorious!

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day November 2012

Eeek! I have been home now for nearly three weeks after three months away. Apart from a very wet Saturday last weekend, it barely rained the whole time. The garden is a disaster, and it's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

Thanks heavens, it's that time of year a couple of show ponies make their annual appearance, and they seem to be have thrived on neglect.

I love this red and pink epiphyllum.  It's in a hanging basket at the side of the carport. I forget about it most of the year, until I notice the first buds and then count the days waiting for the display.

Still just a bud in last Saturday's rain.

The oncidium orchids 'Dancing Lady' just inside my front gate are at their peak.

On a whole different scale is this tiny tick orchid Dockrillia linguiformis happily growing on the trunk of my poinciana.

I brought this Zygopetalum inside to enjoy the flowers

In the front garden, the day lilies were doing it tough, but there were still a few flowers. This  is 'Finish with  a Flourish'.

I'm not too sure what this is, probably either 'Isis Unveiled' or 'Mildred Mitchell'.  

The always reliable 'Velvet Rose'

In the rain on Saturday, a not-so-well-camouflaged spider on my spiral ginger.

I think he may have come from the nearby gardenia.

Hope he settles in to his new home.

To see more blooms from around the world, visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens who hosts this meme each month.