My lovely,(to me at least, lol,) messy garden

22 Oct '09 7:00 am

Hi my fellow gardners,

Here as some pics of my itsy bitsy garden as promised. These are just different agles of the same area. Jack two your tips really worked! Thanks

22 Oct '09 7:32 am

Wow. What a tidy and well organised garden! I love that you have many of the same plants that we have here in New Zealand but that you call them by different names Cool

22 Oct '09 11:29 pm

Beautiful. Smile

Thank you for sharing. I love the third pic (what is that pale ground cover?) and the white Chinese umbrella and of course the cat!

23 Oct '09 1:20 am

Thanks Kerole and MacFlax.

Yes it is nice that we can recognise familiar plants in gardens on the other side of the earth, isn't it? Smile

I don't know the queen-of-flower proper name but I think you know the chinese umbrellas as impatients or something like that, but they do kind of look like little chinese parasols don't they? And we call the joseph coats by that name because they come in such a variety of colours! like joseph's coat of many colours Smile

and over here we call all begonias "shell plants" whether they look like shells or not. Very Happy

MacFlax, I really don't know the name of the ground cover but it is beautiful, varigated white and green leaves but so compact and so much white it often looks more white than green, it spreads very nicely too and is very hardy since it pretty much takes care of itself. I am hoping someone here may be able to identify it for me. I will try to post a close up of the leaves and maybe someone will recognise it.

Since I am not too busy this morning I think I will take a little online stroll in some other people's gardens. Looking forward to a pleasant walk.

Cosmata