March and our False Bay garden

  

by Diana Studer

- gardening for biodiversity

 in Cape Town, South Africa

 

In a vase on Monday is a meme that has run for years - and sometimes my vase IS 'on a Monday'. Pink Thuli Madonsela roses have faded, but there are buds coming for next time. Marbles and pelargonium leaves still look good.

 

Thuli Madonsela
pink roses
In a Vase on Monday

Bright plans to get the garden together after the painters have slipped sideways, so no wide views yet. We have the blue pots back in place. Pruned the Brachylaena, again. Also our neighbour's Australian brush cherry. Since it is an invasive alien, I harvested fruit before the branches went for municipal composting. Litres and litres of them!! In desperation I mulched all the pots with a layer.

 

Blue pots mulched with cherries

Softest blue Plumbago. A lone late Crinum. Iceberg roses flourishing after being shunted around.

 

White garden flowers in March

Finally the March lilies which were spectacular in Porterville have bloomed here on False Bay. Because I had trimmed their Pelargonium shade away?

 

March lilies
in shade and brilliant sunshine

We have 2 Euryops bushes, the first with green leaves, and the second with grey leaves. Catching the autumn sun.

 

Euryops in March

First Nerine sarniensis flower with buds coming in the pots. Autumn blues from Plectranthus saccatus.

 

Nerine and Plectranthus

Next task is getting this rotten woodwork replaced. That gable vent faces the worst of the winter weather driving in from Antarctica (the others are fine). The gate has dry rot and we can see thru gaps which should not be there.

 

Rotten woodwork

Thomas and Zoe are almost never found this close together but they both like that corner. Warm and sheltered?

 

Thomas and Zoe together

Time out at Kirstenbosch, where they replace the old thatch in sections. Fascinating to watch a team working together with those buckets of wet concrete for the roof ridge.

 

Kirstenbosch thatch

I had to tweak the colours for this golden sunset (the camera saw it as menacing and smouldering) but it was ethereal and worth a long, lingering look.

 

Golden March sunset

Garden year month by month here, back to November 2014.

 

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