Simba's Blog - Frosty Mornings & Sunny & Shady days

[Mr List]

good choice

[Simba]

No flowers, but to my mind, sufficient colour and interest from diverse foliage....

Eriobotyra, Aucuba, Schefflera Incisa & Taiwaniana, Podophyllum, Thamnocalamus, Rhododendron, Fatsia Spider's web, Begonia Luxurians.


Rhododendron 'Elizabeth'


Rhododendron 'Elizabeth'


Well they are supposed to be the same plant, but that new foliage sure doesn't look alike to me....

[Mr List]

i love that rhodie with the bright red new growth.

[Trudytropics]

I'm not looking at your blog anymore more Simba, I can't cope I get greener eveytime I see your latest pictures, you paint with plants, it is a work of art

[Simba]

I have some flowers....!!

The first Hemerocallis to bloom this season, is this unknown variety..

Hemerocallis Cosmos?


and also providing some colour is this..

Cistus Maculata

[Arlon Tishmarsh]

Unfortunately my hemerocallis has totally failed to show, must try again.

[Simba]

I think I am going to get a terrific display of Hemerocallis this year, Crimson Pirates, Bonanza and many others are all laden with fresh buds...

Perhaps, some might finally be able to be identified...

[Tom2006]

That foliage bed is amazing!! I would love to get something like that around one of my beds.

My day lily is budding up nicely, an often overlooked plant but so easy to divide and providing you dead head it flowers on and on. I'm planning on getting a few more this year.

[Simba]

My Blechnum Magellanicum has amazed me with it's hardiness, being planted out these past two winters....but this is a photo taken earlier this evening, which shows a mass of new fronds bursting out...

Blechnum Magellanicum


A highly recommended plant...

[Kristen]

Is that the one just to the right of your Wendy house?

[Simba]

A quick tour of my garden as it looked earlier today.
Y'know, I am actually feeling quite content and that it is almost done to my linking..

[bonkersinbrighton]

OMG that is stunning!

makes me realise how far I still have to go

[Mr List]

is your garden quite dark and damp?

it looks very moody in the photos

[Trudytropics]

If that were my garden I'd be more than content , doing cartwheels more like. Stunning as always Simba, what a lucky wife you have, you've created such a gorgeous garden for you both to enjoy

[Tom2006]

Wonderful stuff!! The day lillies look great, lush and also culourful!