Six On Saturday – Daisy Delight 🌸🌼
This is the first official month of spring here. It has been a very cold (for us) wet and protracted winter here in South Australia…Yay! This has slowed the progression of flowers, a little and increased the weed growth (a lot)! Allowing us to pause and enjoy each flower moment. It has been drizzly, cloudy and dull…Yay! A great backdrop to make the flower colours pop.
I have been enjoying is after a harsh record breaking dry year last year. This year we have had the pendulum drop the other way, such is the cleverness of Mother Nature, who always seeks balance and fertility.
I have been planting lots of mini plants I have grown by cutting to replace a few losses from last year. I lost a few Euryops daisy bushes that I never really water, they just seem to survive on the natural rainfall. However I lost a few bushes last year, apparently that amount of dry was a step too far for them. The ones around the irrigated garden areas survived. Interesting, the Marguerite daisies that I give the same treatment, all survived. When the daisies finally flowered en-masse this year, I realized I had missed them since last year. 
My upcycled chair that I like to fill for pretty winter/spring colour each year. This year I added more primulas for their height and colour to this and my balcony baskets. Whoops! On of the pots is sewing the discount price I bought some discount trees last year.
Felicia echinata is a big favourite in my early spring garden. I produce this by cuttings, it is slow to grow from them but is quite drought tolerant as are all the other Felicias in my garden. She gives me a bit of an Aster fix, the Asters I cant’s grow here as it is too hot and dry in my autumn. The plants really is a sub-shrub and grows to 50 cm tall.
Eremophila (Emu Bush) “Silky Lavender” is quite a sight in early spring, which I grow with another purple eremophila (not shown here). This was found in the wild and brought to the nursery industry by a group called the ‘Eremophila Appreciation Society’! This plant need no additional water and is quite hardy in my garden I love a purple eremophila. We are only just starting to properly appreciate and discover our Australian native plants as a thing of great beauty and usefulness as they are properly adapted to out climate and soils. Some very nice garden plants are being found or bred and is a great improvement on the selection of natives that was for sale in the 1980’s, which was pretty ugly and lacking in range. Also here is my favourite pink Marguerite daisy and the lovely Nemesia foetens that I dot around the garden.
Violas and Pink Silene all look pretty at this time of year.
The fragrant Tree Lucerne (Tagasaste) is flowering one of my favourite blossom trees. Also here is the yellow Euryops pectinatus bush. An Acacia fimbriata shrub that I grew by seed. Some tulips that survived from last year and a tulip baby!That’s all from me loves.
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