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Thursday 27 May 2010

Thursday in the Garden

With winter fast approaching, and don't I know it with the wet, cold weather in the last few weeks, the roses are bidding their farewell until next spring.......


The oranges and the irises, however, are rearing their heads ......


And these buds which will become lovely blossoms soon....


Does any cat know what plant it is? These were given to us last year and they seem to be coming on quite well.

20 comments:

Kate (Pablo's mum) said...

Oh, we said goodbye to our roses LONG ago! I heard it's been very wet in Sydney lately. Keep your paws dry!

Brian's Home Blog said...

That is a beautiful garden MoMo, but where are you hiding?

AFSS said...

We thinks the cactus may be a Christmas Cactus
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1510/
Our Grandma has one.

We loves the yellow rose. ~AFSS

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you, dear MoMo. ~Socks

Gemini and Ichiro said...

Wow! Those roses are gorgeous!

Just Ducky said...

That last plant, we have one of those, mum calls in her Christmouse Catcus. (botanically known as Schlumbergera or Zygocactus)

Love the roses too.

Cory said...

Your roses are divine! We will say goodbye to yours as we start to say hello to ours. We don't have too many roses but we have a few.

NAK and The Residents of The Khottage Now With KhattleDog! said...

Khan I have your winter please???

Yes, it is a KHAKHTUS - sometimes they are khalled by the holiday they bloom around!

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra & Khousin Merdie

meemsnyc said...

We agree, it's a Christmas Cactus. Our mom has one and it blooms twice a year, once in summer and once near Christmas time. The roses look so pretty!

Jacqueline said...

Your garden is still looking beautiful, the roses are lovely sweetie...Good job in your garden gorgeous girl...xo...Calle, Halle, Sukki

dArtagnan Rumblepurr/Diego Hamlet Moonfur said...

You guys are lucky, there is no doubt it's winter here in NZ!

Milo and Alfie Marshall said...

The plant is a Christmas Cactus ~ we used to have one. They give out beautiful red blooms around December.

Yoor roses are beautiful. We wish is was a smell-a-blog so we cud sniff them.

Purrfect Haven said...

it all seems lovely and relaxing in your neck of the woods. Super flowers. Love Darcy and Bingley

The Island Cats said...

That's a lovely garden, Momo...enjoy it while you can!! And we think that last plant may be Christmas Cactus. Ours only grows inside...

Forever Foster said...

Gosh it's weird seeing a garden in which things actually grow. It's very different to what we are used to ;)

Anonymous said...

You roses are lovely! mom wants to get a little rose bush for our house. She just got some bulbs for our sisbean's fundraiser. She got Freesia's and Lucifer Crocosmia. They are a hummingbird and flutterby bush. She is going to plant the bulbs on Monday.

Anonymous said...

that last plant is a weird one, but so cool looking! what is it??? your garden is beautiful.

Dma said...

very pretty plants. have no idea what that last thing is.

Memories of Eric and Flynn said...

Yup, it's definitely a Christmas Cactus. Our mum has a huge one that used to belong to dad's mum and it is over 40 years old. It goes out on the patio in it's pot for the summer then goes back in the porch during September and then it blooms with hundreds of pink flowers just before Christmas.

JB's Big and Small Worlds said...

Those are pretty roses but they will be back.
Mom has seen that plant before but can not remember what it is called.
--JB

Sasha said...

Lynettea says it is a Christmas cactus too. She had one a long time ago before I was born. She is incredibly ancient like the Sphinx.