spring

Many of the tulips are withering, as are some freesias, but the recently planted Darwin hybrids at the corner look lovely still.  The sparaxis still look great, though some are spent.  Two of the new cyclamen have suddenly yellowed and may well be dying.  I'm starting to see some zantedeschia by the garage.  The anemones are a bit less vigourous than they were.

There are plenty of flax and eschscholzia open, and a few gilia.  The solanum still is covered in blooms, and the lithodora and saponaria are nearly so.  The ceanothus is not yet out of bloom, which surprises me.  There is more anagallis and loads of osteospermum.  The primrose seems almost over.  The alstroemeria by the back gate is getting more blooms; the one behind the house has none yet.

I've pulled out the hibiscus.  It was pretty clearly dead.  Maybe the frost got it, but maybe I just hadn't given it the right soil; the root mass had not filled the tub.  The teucrium still looks good and colourful.