Symmetry

Bought another fake box hedge plant-in-a-pot today, from the Ipswich Buy and Sell Facebook page. It was so cheap!

So now, I have matching sides on my porch! Adds a sort of cache to the old place. As if someone is thinking of it, and trying to make it better. Which I am.

How much better will it all look when it's painted?! (Get rid of that effing blue)

We have the white! (Bougy #2)

It's supposed to shower today, so I took these in the early morning sun (before 8am).

We have white flower centres - which means we finally have proper flowers! I am very pleased as it means this one is ok, and has taken. It's such a pretty colour. Hope it gathers strength over a dormant winter and goes great guns over the fence next Spring.

P.S. It looks so beautiful close-up, but the plant is really still so tiny!!

Update 26 Sept, 2017: (6 months later, with little rain)

It's much bigger now and appears to be growing well.

Update 26 March, 2019 - and hasn't it grown well!Three years on and it has started to look like a garden!

Coral ornament

Spotted this in a junk shop, and loved it. Have been looking at it for weeks. It's real, so it was pricey.

Picked it up yesterday at a super-reduced price. It had a hideous blue base, so I spray-painted it gold. I don't mind the graduated 'ombre' colour effect, although I may fix that later with a different white spray.

These are all over Pinterest, on'styled' bookcases. I'm happy to have it!

Dead lily-pillies

They don't seem to want to grow in my garden. I'm sick of them doing nothing. This is the second one which has carked it.

Out she comes.

Discovered a new creeper - want!

Saw this along the highway as I was motoring to work recently - photos is blurred as I was stuck in a traffic jam, crawling along the road and only had seconds to capture the pic. I was attracted by the colour, and the blooms so high flowering in the bushiness.

Did not recognise it at all. Showed the photo to Mum, who thought it must be a double-headed bougainvillea, but nope, I insisted it was not.

Then, driving locally, I spotted it again, in a front garden.

Decided to park the car, and walk up to get a closer look. What a curious plant - the leaves of a bauhinia (book-tree), and the flowers of a poinciana! Lovely coral colour too.

Did some research and it turns out that it IS a bauhinia - b. galpinii.

So I called Little Pee Dee Nursery and spoke with Esme - she did have some in stock, and Maree will bring them to the Ipswich Sunday Market on Sunday, after Easter. I ordered 2.

So exciting. They grow to a good height. Have plans to use them as more shelter from the road.

They say it's a bit of a weed now in Qld. Well, too bad, as I still like it. It's not yet outlawed, so I'm going for it.

I'm thinking some plumbago will be the final plants I need. I was against them for a while as they can look so scraggly, but I reckon the blue colour will be pretty against all the pinks and reds.