Spring Flowers in the Organic Garden
The weather is still quite rough here in Perth at the moment but this has not hampered the plants. The spring flowers are bursting out in all their glory as I type!
This is a fine example the first buds on the apricot tree!
Bulbs still pressing on into the early spring heat!
Flowers Amongst the Organic Vegetable Beds
One of my tricks is to grow a range of flowering plants for the benefits of the bees and friendly insects. Ladybirds and wasps etc can hide amongst the bushes and get a feed on the unsuspecting grazers and visitors to my flowers.
This does two things, firstly it keeps the control insects in my garden longer during the year and also provides them with habitat to shelter from the weather at this time of the year.
This is all part of my pest management routine.
Colourful Vistas
The second purpose of the flowering shrubs and ground covers is simply aesthetic!
The yard looks a great deal nicer with lots of colour.
The following is what can be seen out the kitchen window for example.
Ornamental Plum
Jasmine, Bottle Brush, Daisies, Roses
This is my latest success my Strelitzia is about to flower in the little tropical corner I have out the front yard.
Update: the flower has opened and here it is in all it’s glory!
Waterwise Garden
The very frontyard is designed to use as little water as possible and so I use native plants with a little twist.
I like to trim them a little and add formal shapes!
Lavender is a very useful plant – giving both shape and colour as well as smell to the garden.
This is the edge of the driveway and colour here brightens the concrete.
This little tree we call the “Bubble Gum Bush” because of the smell it releases at night when flowering.
Hope you have a great week – may life bring you lots of sweet flowers this week!
The Organic Gardener
September 15th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Great post – the photos are well and truly proof that Spring is here! Love the brilliance in colour and captions to match.