[Photos] Photos of the day - Garden
Oct. 23rd, 2012 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonvoiceI've been working on the garden over a couple of weekends,
reading it for artificial turf.
My fingernails have black mulch embedded in them
but it's been pretty awesome,
and I can't wait for our new baby plants to grow up.
The praying mantis that visited our garden.
Stay away from meeee.
With the sky as contrast.
The left-hand side.
The right-hand side! The colour difference between the new and the old mulch is startling.
Chorizema cordatum, or the 'flame pea.' One of the new local natives, welcome to our garden!
A young Dampiera.
This is Esmeralda (Nephila edulis). She's lovely. She's also been considerate enough to build her substantial web (complete with multiple barrier webs) out of the way of my gardening / watering path.
A mature Verticordia mitchelliana. This is one of my *favourite* plants. Because looking down, they have this lovely circular habit (naturally), with grey-green foliage. But the abundance of blossoms actually happen *underneath* the plant, creating this lovely fringe of red.
And the flowers look like this:
reading it for artificial turf.
My fingernails have black mulch embedded in them
but it's been pretty awesome,
and I can't wait for our new baby plants to grow up.
The praying mantis that visited our garden.
Stay away from meeee.
With the sky as contrast.
The left-hand side.
The right-hand side! The colour difference between the new and the old mulch is startling.
Chorizema cordatum, or the 'flame pea.' One of the new local natives, welcome to our garden!
A young Dampiera.
This is Esmeralda (Nephila edulis). She's lovely. She's also been considerate enough to build her substantial web (complete with multiple barrier webs) out of the way of my gardening / watering path.
A mature Verticordia mitchelliana. This is one of my *favourite* plants. Because looking down, they have this lovely circular habit (naturally), with grey-green foliage. But the abundance of blossoms actually happen *underneath* the plant, creating this lovely fringe of red.
And the flowers look like this:
