lots a flowers

Tis spring but I think the days will warm up to the point (around lunch time anyway) so the traditional flowers will fade really fast leaving the hardy natives to bloom and show off.....
This is a gorgeous callistemon called Perth Pink,its colour isn't showing up as bright as in real life but its so pretty,I plan to buy a few next year for the school garden as there is a dominance of red ones....
Tilly hiding and hoping she won't be roused on for trampling Mums plants(personally theres more weeds in there than anything nice )

Heres the other side with Tilly not budging a whisker,see what I mean with the weeds,that what happens with a busy job and five boys!

These Flag Iris are doing beautifully and hopefully I will be adding to the colours shortly,I would love to get some bi-colours and yellows,reds would also be great,just have to find somewhere to source some rhisomes!

This Convuluvious (not sure if thats how it spelt) Moon Flower is one common name,its a ground cover that at night the flowers nearly glow(for me anyway).The roos love them at school and I'm having a hard time getting to mature enough to put on a display. The leaves are silvery and covered with fine hairs so are fairly drought hardy.

This one is in my garden and only has the dog to contend with, though its mate is suffering, as I put it near the dogs favourite path into the fence where she used to converse with the neighbour Jack Russell(though I haven't seen him for a while,maybe he was getting too noisy for them as theres a new baby on the way)....

Heres the popular Kings Park Special bottlebrush,this tree is about three years old and is about to put on athe best show.It was squashed by the neighbour a couple of years ago and I had to cut it back to maintain its shape,he was cutting down a eucalypt and didn't ask us at the time otherwise we could have helped .That way the branch that fell on our side could have been handled differently...

This tree is a very easy one to grow and the colour is very bright,apparently it was a sport that was found in the Kings Park in Perth by gardeners,its parentage is not known or confirmed anyway.its the only red/pink that I look at when buying that colour for new plantings at work but at home I am adding different ones to put a bit of variety in.

I am waiting for the Western Glory to flower at present,it should be a deep dark pink...

This is the Pink Champayne that flowers all year round with the best show in spring but always has flowers to look at!The leaves I noticed go a bit prickly if it goes dry and I have tried to train all the natives to get their roots go down for water conservation (and cut the bills ) so I guess I am going to get used to those sharp bits!
I just love this Perth Pink......

Out back Flowers

I have decided that to keep my other blog for my creative bits I needed to start somewhere else to put my many gardening bits .
Here I shall record the happenings in my area that will include the school developements (garden wise) and anything that is remotely green or light brown in some cases as this is the arid area of Australia. A fun way to show my green thumb/fingers.....(also wher I can prattle on about gardening too....

First and foremost We have some rain! it was fast and the smell was heavonly,the kids were dying to get into the mud and all kid things that happen when it rains but I had had a long day at work and the last thing I wanted to do was clean up four muddy boys and a dog. They had to suffice with a toe dangle.It was all to brief and probably only about 30 to 40 points in the old gauge and really you wouldn't even have known it had rained at all two days later.Watering still had to be carried on at school and all the raking that the storm mess created.

This is a glimpse of our bush near our house where the BMX boys have been digging up their jumps.You can see how arid it is ,not exactly desert but there is no naturel water for a long way.All our town water is piped in from Perth and the mines use as much of the local underground saline water wher they can.

A member of the local native population,not sure what his name s but there ae some very pretty reptiles around here.

Heres another one.....(a gecko this time)
I do have some other lovely piccies of natives but stored on another computor..this was/is a garden site but how can you have garden stuff without some residents as well!
This a spalsh of colour,Tibuchina,or Lisandris(Hope I got that right),now what I would love to know is ,Is this a native Australian Lisandra or the Brazilian one,I have done some research and as usual the Nursery only puts the easy name on the tags and internet research came up with some confusing and confricting info...
Here is the other colourful addition to my own garden,a Geraldton Wax,will add its full name later but the colour is wonderful,I spyed another deep burgandy one in Kalgoorlies only WaterWise Garden centre ,Macbrides ,there are two others but this is new! and very nice(wasn't game to look at prices though).....Tillys just checking it out.....

This a closer look,the flowers are gorgeous....and they are quite hard to touch not soft and feathery at all.I haven't been game to plant any in my garden before but as I was developing the front I thought why not,careful preparation and all that,6 months will tell how successful I have been..

Next post I will put some photos up of my front garden, as its mostly red dirt, it will be interesting how it developes over time!(the back yard is a disgrace so it shall remain hidden for a while,LOL....