Seasons | 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

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

Spring – 2016 after the big “wet”

After a wet winter that just keeps going the roses, hollyhocks and just about everything else are making their way hoping to catch some sun.

Climbing Rose near the chook pen – orange and yellow with some peach..

Hollyhocks

Roses

Roses – with a blush

Roses

Grevillia

Chinese Lanterns

Kangaroo Paw

Winter – 2016 at the Lane

It is deepest, bleakest winter at Uccello Lane and a visit from our photographer captured the colors and the detail.

Tree gums

Rocks

Moss and Rocks

Pomigranite

Winter Trees

Woodpile

Bark

Pathway through the Proteas

Magnolia

Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm

There are over 100 trees at Uccello Lane – magnificent Ghosts Gums, wattles, banksia, olives, fruit, birch – with the Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm being the King of the Hill!. As you drive up to the Secret Garden it is standing there with the almost citrus green foliage and this year after it’s Elm Tree Beetle injection it has grown an extra metre or two! It has taken ages for the tree to get ready for autumn and it is only now with winter here that the leaves have turned and are getting ready to drop

After the Secret Garden – ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm

Uccello Lane – Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm

Uccello Lane – Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’

Elm tree at last turning a shade of yellow

Uccello Lane -Trees LV

Elm Tree – Louis van Houtte finally turning yellow an getting ready to drop it’s leaves

Uccello Lane – Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’

Uccello Lane – Ulmus procera ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm

Summer – 2016 at the Lane

It is the end of Summer 2016 – and it has been hot. But in the middle of all this the perfumed roses, the Chinese Lanterns, native Jasmine and the Tree Peony all thrived. No idea why – but they do get watered well by next-doors high powered sprinkler system. The roses were climbing on the wooden teepees – we have the sticks, the twine the nails – we just need to make some more

Chinese Lanterns – Peach

Chinese Lanterns – Yellow

Salvias – out of control

Bellissimi Fiori at Uccello Lane

Already the apple tree’s leaves are turning

Chinese Lanterns – Peach

Roses – Dior

Bonnie on patrol

Rose

Butterfly Plant

Roses

Teepees

So fragrant

The roses love to climb the teepees

Native Gardinia

Secret Garden & the Elm

Autumn – 2016 at the Lane

At Uccello Lane the Autumn foliage, the vibrant reds and greens against the bark of the gum trees is nature at its best. A photographer visited and captured some of the scenic surroundings in the Lane.

Ms Poppy Pug

Bird House in the Apple Tree

Swampy Wattle

Birch and Elm

Clret Ash

Elm and Wisteria

Secret Garden is Beyond

Urn against the Wistringia

Bottle Brush

Nasturtiums

Over to the Secret Garden – Best shot!

Ghost Gum

Moss on the Pear Tree

Trees and bark

Spotted Gum

Paper Bark

Designer Wood

Ghost Gum

Protea

“Louis Van Houtte’ Elm

Winter – 2015 at the Lane

Winter is here so we have moved “inside” at the Lane. The wood fire is going and the frosts are still coming – the passion-fruit vine is just a couple of long stalks after it looked so healthy!

In the garden there are flowers from Hellebores, Camellias and Magnolias which truly beautiful and just keep coming.The bulbs are just starting to peep out and the bluebells in the birch forest look ready to pop. Over 20 roses have been planted – mainly “old fashioned” ones – some on the wall of the Secret Garden where they will begin the “perfumed Garden” theme.The proteas are out in the “Welcome Bed” and their foliage has provided the color that you need for winter. Best news is – the chooks are laying again!