Spring garden

Should be a few more by now.
Sweet Peas.


Poppies.




Virginian Stocks

Pardon the bottle in the first photo, a leftover from when I was covering baby delphiniums against the frost.

Dutch Iris


Tall Bearded Irises

At last, my first Shirley Poppy.

Great looking Iris there Betty, those Dutch Iris are the ones I cannot get to flower here maybe its too warm..
The poppies and sweet peas look good too it must be very colourful in your garden at present..

All very beautiful, Betty.You place must be a blaze of colour, I would love to be able to come visit....so many different flowers and I imagine the perfumes would be exquisite. Do the wallflowers have a scent, from memory I think they do. Try and save seed from the gorgeous ruffled pansies... they are stunning.

A better photo of Raspberry Fudge - my sister did know the name of this iris.


She probably has the name of this apricot one also, I must ask her.

Things do smell nice outside, Fay. Wallflowers have a beautiful perfume, it's why I planted them. I will try to save seed from most things, although in a lot of cases I don't know how to find them. LOL.
When all the Shirley poppies come out it will be nice, Mary-Anne. It's funny really, that after all those drought years(I just think it's global warming) when I was starved of colour, with no garden to speak of, I had a real gut feeling that it was time to strive for a nice garden. I am not confident about next year though.

Boy Betty your spring flowers have given me my daily fix of glorious blooms , those ruffled Pansy are new to me and so wonderful.Poppies are memories of childhood on the farm .I was 7 my brother 9 and every sunday we were deposited down on the highway 6 miles away with our boxes of poppies to sell to the passing cars out for sunday drives. That would never be done today unless you wanted your kis taken. Life for parents is so much harder now .

How right you are, Gwen, nowadays parents hardly dare let their children out of their sight. You and I probably had the same sort of carefree childhood that all kids deserve, but don't get now.

Betty after seven years of drought you can imagine how I felt when we got decent rain two Springs ago..

Its so different this Spring its gone back to dry again..

Love both those Iris, Raspberry Fudge what a delicious name..

Betty what plants are those big leafs from in the last two pics.
Would they be Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks that started reaching for the sky back when there was some rain about for them, Mary-Anne. We actually had 12 years of serious drought prior to this good Spring, Mary-Anne. We even had a failed Spring one year, when we just got nothing - like Queensland now in fact, so I can't for one moment believe we will get even a halfways decent year next year.

Here are some rather unusual Columbines.


Dutch Iris

I just keep absorbing all the lushious blooms . I grew Columbines many years ago but those new ones are so different . LOVE THEM.

I have never grown Columbines must say they look great Betty.
So do the Dutch Iris's those I cannot get to flower here..

Thanks Betty, it is a delight to look at your garden....everything so lush, beautiful and healthy.
Do you use sheep poo for fertiliser...I have read that it is fantastic.

Lime, super, and sheep poo in the iris bed , Fay, but not all at the same time of course. Horse manure in the other beds, but of course certain plants get extra seasol/Dynamic Lifter/Blood and Bone etc..
Gwen, I am so pleased that you like my flowers. When the first columbine came out I thought it was deformed. LOL. But no, just a different type. I have regular columbines in in a variety of colours but they haven't flowered and I'm not sure they will. You see the others didn't the first year. Time will tell.
Mary-Anne, I don't think Dutch Iris are even that robust down here. In my hot area I mean, they may be fine south of the Divide.

Another iris. No name for it as yet. I love the black lines at the start of the falls, also the lines down them.

Betty . wow what a beauty , the lines are a bit ubusual I reckon.

The black lines in the centre looks good I reckon, Gwen. Now I think I have the name for the next one, it's called Wearing Rubies.

My silly camera has hissy fits and one day won't take photo's, without blurring, of red flowers, then it might be pink on another day, purple on another day, it's very annoying.
Anyway, time for a delphinium or two.

They are so pretty Betty..

All so very lovely...I am jealous...lol...

Here is the first snapdragon.


Another Shirley Poppy.


The Sweet Peas , powering on.

Very colourful Betty..

Here is part of the old sheep paddock. It could look good with enough water, and energy on my part. La Sevillana is the bright red rose in the foreground.


Beautiful white delphiniums, one with a white centre, the other black. I am so pleased with the variety I got this year.


Queen Anne's Lace , this year taller than Ian, over 6 feet.


Finally, are they larkspurs or delphiniums? I forget. LOL.

Well, it still is Spring so here are some more.
White double hollyhock.


Verbena


Carnation