The Garden through my Camera Lens

This afternoon I wandered, camera in hand, through my garden. I've only been away a little under a month, but when I left at the end of winter, the lawn was brown; many shrubs and trees had died down and the annuals were straggly and untidy. Debbie, in between seeing to a five-month-old baby, homeschooling the two older children and looking after all my pets, also supervised the garden spring clean: cutting back shrubs and trees, adding topsoil to the lawn, thinning and planting out the perenials.

Angie bounds through the Creeping gazanias (Gazania regens) with a seed pod in her mouth

My Banksia rose is thriving in its second season

Euryops add many months of colour to the garden

Angie again...

I was thrilled to see these beautiful Calendula officinalis thriving in my garden

The Californian poppies ( Escholscholzia californica ) add a bright splash to each bed.

Above is a member of the Sedum genus (Sedum x rubrotinctum) also popularly known as the jelly bean sedum. This is the first year it has produced these yellow rosettes in flower!

One of my "dry" garden beds is alive with colour and texture as the Aloe spp burst into bloom

The white stinkwood (Celtis africana) is the first tree in my garden to lose its leaves in the autumn and the first to sprout leaves in early spring.

Aloe spp above and below This indigenous spreading succulant, Bulbine frutescens is also known

as cat's tail

Thank you Debbie and my loyal gardeners.