April 2025 in the Southern Hemisphere

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The weather is currently cooler but we are expecting a hot weekend!
Here is Oxalis attaquana with its unusual foliage,
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Two seedlings raised from Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas', one has nicely pink foliage when it opens,
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First flowers of Narcissus viridiflorus
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A few more flowers:
1) A pink cultivar of Nerine sarniensis
2) Rhodophiala bifida Pink - a second stem is a bit more normal sized
3) xAmarine is really hitting its straps.
4) The first Sternbergia sicula
5) The last few flowers of Narcissus 07/02T (N.tazetta ssp lacticolor x N.elegans)
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I visited the Australian Plant Society's Heathcote's branch's Flower and Art Show and took some pics of the floral exhibits:
1) A display table
2) Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream'
3) Grevillea eriostachya
4) Grevillea 'Legacy Flame'
5) Beaufortia squorrosa
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More from Heathcote:
1) Grevillea bipinnatifida
2) Grevillea dielsiana
3) Correa 'Federation Belle'
4) Eremophila flaccida subsp flaccida

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1) Eremophila oldfieldii subsp. angustifolia
2) Eremophila forrestii
3) Eremophila willsii sp. willsii
4) Grevillea 'Cumquat'
5) Grevillea biformis
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1) Hakea laurina
2) Hakea laurina 'Stockdale Sensation'
3) Grevillea lanigera
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Here are the last few:
1) Grevillea 'Bush Lemons'
2) Grevillea 'Caloundra'
3) Eremophila miniata
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[Maggi Young]

I visited the Australian Plant Society's Heathcote's branch's Flower and Art Show and took some pics of the floral exhibits:
1) A display table
2) Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream'
3) Grevillea eriostachya
4) Grevillea 'Legacy Flame'
5) Beaufortia squorrosa
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Wow, quite the variety!

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Wow, quite the variety!

There's a huge variety of Australian Plants which are great for our gardens but sourcing them is difficult - I'd not seen many of these for sale even in nurseries specialising in them.
Here are some plants from South Africa!
1) Nerine rosea
2) A seedling of a cross I made between a red cultivar and Nerine rosea
3) Nerine 'Ariel'
4) an unlabelled orange Nerine - similar to 'Prince of Orange' or the old 'Corusca Major'
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The critters were eating the flowers off the white Cyclamen graecum, so I placed a piece of chicken wire over the top held up by a terracotta pot.
The critters worked out that if they pressed on the wire they could get to the flowers anyway
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[Maggi Young]

Merciful heavens! Just bad luck to have smart critters, I guess!

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Merciful heavens! Just bad luck to have smart critters, I guess!

Unfortunately, extremely cute too

In the next pic you'll see all the flowers have been eaten, accept one which has attempted to escape!

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[Maggi Young]

Unfortunately, extremely cute too

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Oh dear, yes, they are cute!