Plants | Uccello Lane

Spring Late – 2019 Guest Photographer

Spring 2019 has been glorious – after the hot summer we had some good rainfall – and now it is lush. We had a guest photographer capture some of Uccello Lane – and some old photos of how it was.

Starting with “The Bank” everything is in flower including the wisteria, snowball trees and the lavender. Have a look at how it was in 2013 .

The Bank

Iris getting ready to flower

Trav’s Trees clear away bank

July 2013 – Heading towards the Cherry tree on the Bank

Bank in July 2013

The Bank

Seaside Daisy

Seaside Daisy growing in a rock

Snowball Trees

Wisteria

Trees

The Bank

Lavender Hedge

The Bank

Yellow flowers

Pale yellow flower

The edibles and kitchen garden are getting planted – and the fennel has taken over.

Spring Onion

Leafy Green

Chooks

Mango Marigold

Fennel

Hedges

Strawberries

Poppies

The birch forest with the helibores underplanted and trees with bark that look like an owl..some old pictures from 2015 – before the birches grew

Birch forest

Smoke Bush

Standing Tall like a Birch tree

Trav’s Trees guys do the clearout

Birch before they grew

Trees Tagged

Wisteria

Helibores

Trees – Owl

The Secret Garden has a lavender hedge and a new wrought iron door to peep through – it all started with a string line and some plastic fencing…

The Secret Garden

String Line set up to start

Vince fixing the Secret Garden Door

Excavation

The Secret Garden

Before the Hobbit Door

The Rosa Arbor is in getting ready to burst – and the natives are also keen to get in on the season…

then it across to CrabApple Walk – past the dry stone wall and across to the perennial garden

The Yellow Garden….September 2019

It is Spring and it is all about the Yellow Garden – daffodils and the Wattles have never looked so stunning.

Daffodils

Tree Fern

Salvia

Summer Joy

Wattle

Wattle

Yellow Flower – Daisy

Flower after the rain

Romantic Garden – Shirley Minster from Creswick

As part of the Open Garden for Creswick we went to Shirley Minster beautiful rose garden. It is a rather romantic garden in very difficult conditions fighting rabbits, a hard clay soil and a very limited water supply. The Smoke bush is amazing but the heroines are the Roses.

Creswick Romantic Garden

Smoke Bush

Creswick Romantic Garden

Dry Stone Wall – Before (2016) and After (2019)

July 2016 – before the stone wall, the fernery and the lavender hedges. No plans it just evolved.

Then by May 2019 it was a much different vista!

Before the Salvias and Hedge

Pathway is in

Ready to plant

No stone wall yet – 2016

Fernery and Lavender

Green Plant

Salvia on the wall

Stone Wall – 2019

Flora and Fauna after the rain….May 2019

It was a long dry summer and it was not until May that we finally got some good soaking rain – the garden responded and grass peeped through quickly – and the kangaroos quickly ate it.

kangaroo getting ready to jump..

Kangaroo doing some weeding

Agapanthas

Protea

Grevillia

Lorependlum

Eremophilia Scarlet

Eremophilia White

Eremophilia Pink

Rose in the Rain

Japanese Windflower

Bergundy

Lemon Myrtle

Green Plant

Native Violets

Bark and Red Hot Pokers

Wistringa and Red Hot Pokers

Climber

Back Fence

Just keeps growing

Seaside Daisy

Leaves already falling

Rosemary

Camolmile

Pink Impatients

Yellow Daisy

Rosa – Carpet

Rosa on the bank

Rosa di Pagola, Artichokes – and an Alien Salvia!

Rosa di Pagola has emerged from its life as a cricket pitch. There is a meandering path down that leads past the artichokes with their purple seed heads – and then the alien salvia…

Rosa di Pagola

Salvia – ALien

Just Joey Rose

Fragrant Roses

Old Fashioned Rosa

Bushy Rose

Pink Carpet

Great rose blloms

Long View – Rosa di Pagola

Pathway to Rosa di Pagola

Apple

Carpet Roses in white

Teepee and Rose

From the Rosa Pagola

Teepee and Just Joey

Rose TeePees

Rosa di Pagola

Pom Pom Tree – Spring 2018

The Pom Pom Tree is out – almost breaking under the weight – it looks good enough to eat!

Pom Pom tree

Variegated Blue

Poppy

Sage

Burgundy Flowers

Urn on the Hill

White Plant

Hellebore

Straw Flower

Gates to the Boardwalk

Stone Wall – 2019

Woodland takes shape – down the boardwalk

So the woodland is starting to grow – down the boardwalk stairs into the native rain forest – and emerging into the “Edna Walling” Walk. The roses have been moved and the birdhouse has a resident kookaburra.

Across to the wisteria

Over the Birch forest

Start of the new path

Down the lavender hedge

Wooden steps

Port Hole to Secret Garden

Brick Steps

Eddie Emu from the Market

Autumn – 2018 at the Lane after a long dry Summer

Willow Fence on the Kitchen Garden

Purple Perrenial

Yellow with Purple Centre

Red Hot Poker

Red Hot Poker Close Up

Salvia

Salvia – up close

Roses

Rose

Roses

Rose

Correa – for the Birds

House for Birds

Curly Tree – side

Curly Tree Top

Elm Tree

Chinese Lantern – Pink

Chinese Lantern – White

Hydrange

Butterfly Plant

Wattle

Swamp Wattle

Roses – and Birds

Lambs Ear

Pomegranite

Fruit – Gauva

Fig Tree

Veggie – Ornamental Kale

Parsley

Herb – Echenasia

Herb – Sage

Herb – Rosemary Hedge

Verbernium

Red Stem Dogwood

Larapetlim

Camelia

Purple Ground Cover

Yellow Ground Cover

Yellow ground cover on the bank

Leaves for Autumn

Bark Pear Tree

Emu

Steps to the Apple Tree

Everything is still looking dry

Lilly Pilly

Silver Birch Bark

Leaf Carpet

Door to Secret Grden

Lavender

Cumquat

Wisteria Tile

Secret Garden

Camellias & Rhododendron- glossy leaves and vibrant winter colors!

Camellias signal the start of autumn and keep on right through winter. They love acid soil at Uccello Lane and burst into bloom when everything else seems to be having a rest! They grow under the Ghost Gums where nothing else will with bright red flowers.

Rhododendron is like a winter orchid and loves the acid soil like the Camellias.

Rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron