My first garden bloggers bloom day.

Thank you May Dream Gardens. This is my first garden bloggers bloom day post. It's a little light on information as I'm new at gardening and have yet to pick up on my Latin, and due to the fact that it was blowing a gale and raining on and off while I tried to take the photos, I haven't managed to capture too much. Oh well, it's a beginning.

Ok. This is a fuchsia. So far so good.

And petunias.  I have a few and they seem to be coping with the wet.

This is a snake vine, hibbertia scandens. It's an Australian native climber and is doing its best to hide the ugly metalwork on my back undercover area. Probably a year or two to go until full coverage.

That's a begonia of some description in the background, and possibly a white Verbena in the middle with an unknown ground-cover in the foreground.

I don't know either of these. I took surreptitious cuttings from other gardens to grow them. Anyone?

And this one too.

Australian native violet in my Wollemi pine pot as an under planting.

Bottlebrush, or Callistemon.

This is my attempt at a cottage garden. It looks more like a dining table centre piece.

Mad hatter.

Grevillea something or the other

 Kangaroo Paw

 My Eureka lemon

 And the big bottlebrush tree out the front.

Thanks for your patience. I'll get better next month.