plants galore

Every specimen involved in the creation of our garden comes with a story of where it was found and how it continues to thrive or perish.That aspect of gardening is special to me. I didn't have funds sufficient to simply go to a store and pick them from the shelf (with a couple of exceptions), so I roamed the streets of our new locality to find inspiration from existing gardens and retrieved abandoned plants from bushland areas where they were unceremoniously dumped and left to perish or prosper in native bush.

This first photo shows the orchids I found which had completely covered a fallen tree.

This is a close-up of the flower.

This is Tindal wanting to have his photo taken or food!

This was snapped in the evening.

This was snapped in the morning.

There are probably ten or so coleus plants now around the garden. all coming from small cuttings of a plant growing by the roadside.

This is a cactus from a cutting taken from Sylvia's.

This is asparagas fern found on the Nelson Bay headland.

I planted it and the plant above in between the fronds of a date palm.

This was found on a bush trail .

This was growing in a rock wall.