Month: September 2013

Diamond dusting / Green

Hi All, Sometimes it’s important to select flowers in sunlight. This delightful white caught my eye a few days ago. It then reminded me that I had selected a yellow trumpet early in the season (28 August) that also glistened.…

Putting Faces with Names – the Flemings (Keira)

While in Canberra in September 2013, I took a photo of Graham and Helen Fleming while they were preparing their entries at the daffodil show. My photo wasn’t usable. Here are photos they have supplied me instead.  

Great gardens in Arkansas

If you are thinking ahead to the 2014 convention, you are going to see some great gardens. In the current American Gardener magazine is an informative and well-illustrated article about Garvan Woodland Gardens, the key piece of the Sunday tour,…

2013 Central Kiwi Flowers .

Just a few more for the Central Daffodil Group Show , — Kiwi raised flowers that are not seen a lot . Placed second in the miniatures was a colourful seedling from Reg Cull . HC / M 2 ,…

2013 Orange show

The Orange show was held last weekend. After such a hot early spring and then a week of rain and strong winds I was not sure that there would be many flowers available.  Around 660 flowers greeted the judge making…