Some views of the back garden

10 Nov '08 6:33 am

Is the gold-leafed shrub not a weigelia? If so, I might well have it - planted way up in the arboretum next to the purple leaved plants you see above the bridge when looking out my window! Must move a cutting (which I think I've taken!) in to a closer position...

10 Nov '08 7:07 am

Oh Dixie, your border-meets-farmland photos are fab! The mixture of colours and texture in the shrubbery is lovely. How do you stop the cows from eating the shrubs - do you have a series of electric outriggers Question

10 Nov '08 8:04 am

Boy the pastel purple on the plant in the lower right corner is fantastic, isn't it? I mean the one in the plant close up photo. The yellow folliaged plant is striking too. It'll be interesting to see how it plays off the Yellow Wave phormium. I've seen yellow folliage play nicely off of silver folliage such as Plectranthus argentinia and the Phormium like leaves of "Silver Spear". Your garden is looking particularly nice and/or you are becoming more and more adept at getting it on 'film'.

10 Nov '08 3:50 pm

Hi, Dixie;

I've been wondering. . . are poplars of any kind native to NZ, or were they all imported? In any case, they sure seem to do well there. Personally, I love the smell of their buds in spring and their dried leaves in the Fall.

cheers!
gordonf

13 Nov '08 5:02 pm

The golden leafed shrub looks and flowers exactly like a golden-leafed Escallonia. I've got a few in my garden - they're a bright and happy shrub, and OK to prune them.

14 Dec '08 6:35 am

Thank you Moosey for the name of that shrub.I searched through all my plant name-tags but seem to have lost that one.
Summer is in full swing.The first flush of roses is over,and most at the back garden have been dead-headed.I have a couple of new day-lilies-one I got at a plant-swap.It is pale apricot-a colour I have not seen before,and the other I bought at last week's market-a pale lemon,and I love it too.
The hydrangeas are in full bloom and are really large this summer.I had my granddaughters to stay while their mother competed in the Rotorua half-ironman.She completed the course in 7 hours,50 minutes.

14 Dec '08 6:55 am

Here are yesterday's pictures.
If you look carefully at the grass,you will see some orange peel.A possum had got an orange from a tree overnight,and taken it to the pepper tree then sat in the branches eating it,and dropped the peel.

14 Dec '08 8:02 am

Smiley is not well enough to make hay so we sold our standing grass to neighbours.It is rye and clover,which is the best for dairy cows in making milk.
Here are the neighbours big machines making round bales of silage,then they took the bales to their farm.The picture is from our fence.The trees are poplars and they are not native

14 Dec '08 12:49 pm

Your garden is looking just gorgeous!

15 Dec '08 9:24 am

Your garden is looking great in all its Spring glory. Your granddaugther tooks delighted and delightful in your garden. My almost three year-old niece is fun to have in the garden. I like to hold her up so she can pick apples and persimmons herself and then bring them in and cut them into mouthsized morsels for her. Everything looks perfectly manicured - weeded and tidy. You should be a garden tour so you can share this with others.

Some views of the back garden

Thanks for all the info, Dixie!

Looking goo, Dixie

Poplars

Golden Shrub

Summer

Yesterday's pictures

Dec14th

I agree with Macflax, Dixie.