Natives

Absent

Well its very wet here right now!

I've stopped in to explain my absence. Strangely with two children now at school full time I seem to have less available time rather than more! lol I have really not written much on my personal blog these last weeks either and a month has passed since I posted here. So as maintaining two blogs and posting regularly is not possible for me at this point in time, I have decided to incorporate more of the garden into the everyday postings at Girls Wear Blue Too This works much better for me right now so I hope you will pop over from time to time if you don't already and see what is happening over there. 

Though I can't say when I'm sure I'll be back posting here again at sometime in the future :)

Wrong!

I took the photo of the nectarines a few days ago. Then we had some heavy rain through the early hours of the morning, at which point the snails climbed up the tank and ... feasted on my nectarines! Sigh.

Mine!

See there on the heavy branch weighed down below the height of the tank,wedged between it and the support trellis, slightly obscured from overhead view by the overflow pipe, rambling roses and other vines.

A closer look as I zoom in from where I was standing with the previous photo.

5 plump luscious nectarines! 

The birds can't see and perhaps can't reach. They will be ripe enough to pick within days!

Drimia maritima

Huge thanks to Cathy who identified the mystery plant! With the one with the enormous bulb.

commonly known as sea squill.

Here is the link she sent me. :)

Mandarins

Oh My! 

Juicy and delicious.

and a few more ready too.

Butterfly

Sheltering from the rain. I got better shots of the underside than above. These were taken this afternoon.

Another Unknown

These seem to pop up in a couple of places under large trees exposed to partial sun so I suspect they are a shade loving plant. I am told by my daughter The flowers are sticky. Can anyone tell me what it is?

White Agapanthus

There are Deep dark Purple, light purple, blue and White Agapanthus spread around the garden. The plants are various sizes with the Deep dark purple being the biggest with flower spikes standing almost to my shoulder. 

Oak

These are on one of the Oak tree's ( I think its an Oak ) most of the Oaks here have rounded leaves but the leaves of this one have points.