Photos taken by Gay Klok in the Town garden and
the Country Garden
during January and February 1990
The peafowl are in their element in the late summer garden. So
much choice for their browsing. This handsome cock has lost his feathers
and the new ones are already showing
Roses, hydrangeas and daisies in the late summer garden, all fight for
room
The Cornish Heath makes huge low mounds in time and blend well with
the other perennials
Another peafowl struts by a cooler section of the garden with roses
growing up the wooden arch and Lady's Mantle showing its acid green-yellow
flowers
The guinea fowl also choose the cottage garden to browse.
One of the hens laid fourteen ggs in the centre of one of the rose beds.
I have put these under a broody hen and shall let you know the result.
Guinea hens are the worse mothers in the bird world, leave their eggs or
leave their chicks
This is the rare pink form of the Eucryphia lucida - Leatherwood - a
Tasmanian endemic, Eucryphia is used to by the bees to make Tasmanian Leatherwood
honey, famous World wide for its perculiar tangy taste. This
particular sport was found in the bush, recently, and is now sought
after as a garden ornamental. I have a group of different Eucryphias
and especially like them as they flower in late summer for a long time.
The flowers are generally white with lovely stamens
A mixed border, hydrangeas, and late Primulas
Pandorea throws its bunches to the Heavens above. They love the
sun-shine
A late flowering rambler rose is enjoying the Summer sunshine too
We can see here Astilbe, Cimcifugia and right in the back a Japanese
Iris is just finishing its glorious show
Close uo of the useful perennial Cimicifugia that can stand quite tall
in the border, I find with the second flowering the spikes are much shorter
Aruncus and Christmas Rose leaves flourish in a dampish bed
The Astilbe comes in many shades of white, pink, red and this vivid
purple
This lovely tree is the New Zealand lace bark,
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