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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 29/08/2008 : 13:43:33
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Some of them might be old-fashioned but they never give up. If anyone is looking for a garden that hardly needs any attention, these plants are ideal. All they need is an occasional water if it doesn't rain and a very occasional haircut to tidy them up.
A petunia from last summer
Two pelargoniums (or geraniums as they used to be known)
Nasturtium with a visitor
Kalanchoe
Gazania
Dietes bicolour
Begonia that comes up by itself
Purple african daisy
Gerbera that Mary-Anne sent me - first flower
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 29/08/2008 : 14:06:23
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I love a lot of the oldies as well :)
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 29/08/2008 : 15:07:32
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Lovely Gail, so that's where the nasturtium is hiding.
Thats a single beige Gerbera, humm I thought I sent you doubles.
I will blame the birds they were all around me that day..
Me too Cheryl but I gave up on the Petunia, to me its a water guzzler.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 29/08/2008 : 17:08:27
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The pic doesn't show the colour of the gerbera well, it is more a lemony colour though the edges are nearly a peachy colour.
It's funny but I've found the petunias good in drier areas, this one doesn't get a lot of water. That is why I stick with petunias and the red salvias for annual colour, both like it hot and dry.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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