September 2017 in the Southern Hemisphere

[fermi de Sousa]

5) Trillium - even harder for us to flower - this is the first flower since it was planted a decade ago!

2 weeks later the trillium is now in bloom!
It came as trillium sessile from our local group's annual "Bunfight" - plant exchange - in December 2007!
Growing here in a raised bed on the shady side of the house with hellebores and galanthus
cheers
fermi

[vivienne Condon]

I think that may be Trillium chloropetalum Fermi, Trillium sessile is smaller in the leaves and the flower is sort of chubby rather than long and narrow, and the whole plant is quite short 10-11cm high. I'm not an expert but we did import T. sessile from Stewart Preston from NZ and it does not look quite like that. But there is nothing wrong with T. chloropetalum its just as beautiful and gorgeous foliage.
Viv

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Viv,
I think you're right - I must check who put it on the Bunfight.
It has certainly been a strange year for us to get it to flower
Here are a few more pics:
1) Babiana odorata x B. pygmaea seedling
2) Narcissus (lost label) 3 W-O with DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Opening days at the Crowden family's lovely gardens in Tasmania.......

[fermi de Sousa]

Very tempting, Maggi
We enjoyed staying there last year and will one day get back for a look at the garden in early spring!
In our garden today:
Daphne genkwa
Daphne x transatlantica 'Eternal Fragrance'
Phebalium sp
Isopogon sp
Pulsatilla vulgaris & Forsythia 'Gold Clusters'
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Doug Logan  has posted pix on Facebook from the recent  NZAGS show ....

  is the link if you can access FB.

[vivienne Condon]

I thought you may be interested in some of the Banksia's, Grevillea, Eucalyptus and others in flower along the Bass Coastline, Victoria Coastal Park. Cape Liptrap, Waratah Bay and Inverloch

    Banksia attenuata 2.jpg
    Banksia attenuata.jpg
    Banksia integrifolia yellow fls.jpg
    Banksia marginata.jpg

[vivienne Condon]

Some more

    Banksia spinulosa 1.jpg
    Banksia spinulosa not fully open_01.jpg
    Burchardia umbellata 1.jpg
    Burchardia umbellata.jpg
    Correa reflexa.jpg

[Maggi Young]

I thought you may be interested in some of the Banksia's, Grevillea, Eucalyptus and others in flower along the Bass Coastline, Victoria Coastal Park. Cape Liptrap, Waratah Bay and Inverloch

 Oh yes!

[vivienne Condon]

and more

    Clematis glycinoides 2.jpg
    Clematis glycinoides1.jpg
    Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess_01.jpg
    Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess_02.jpg
    Fringe Lilly Invy.jpg

[vivienne Condon]

and more

    Grevillea large red6.jpg
    Grevillea large red 5.jpg
    Grevillea 4.jpg
    Hibbertia obtusifolia .jpg
    Hibbertia obtusifolia 2.jpg

[vivienne Condon]

Last ones

    Grevillea long fls.jpg
    Drosera auriculata.jpg

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
A few photos of what is flowering in our garden at the moment (besides daffodils).

[Mini-daffs]

Hi
Some more photos. We grow quite a few camellias but they have been knocked around by the number of heavy frosts we have had this year. We have about 60 reticulata seedlings in our shade house that will have to be planted out at some point so there will have to be some new gardens. We also have 14 tree peony seedlings coming along but I have already made a new bed for them.

[Maggi Young]

Another lovely diary post by Vivienne Condon from the Australian Victoria AGS group  "blog"  - this time about Otto Fauser's remarkable garden  - http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-visit-to-ottos-to-view-fritillaria-on.html

It's always worth having a read of these blogs to see more of  what's happening with our friends in Victoria!