For those of us for whom our gardens are special, or for whom our gardens aided in our recovery whether physical or emotional, post your photos of your garden that bring you joy.
Cassia fistula (Golden Shower Tree)
Delonix Regis (poinciana)
Every afternoon these trees are visited by lorikeets and other nectar feeding birds.
Don't judge a book by it's cover, or a garden by what's on display. It's taken me a while to get this established, but it is a tank heaving with the most delicious Dutch Cream spuds. I really wanted to grow kipflers, but they wouldn't play. 's
Curious. Rosa Camp David was developed in Germany in 1984 but it was not introduced in its home country but ‘in Australia, where the cultivar is well liked’. So maybe nothing to do with American Presidents?
Yes, I too thought the rose must be named after the Camp David hideaway for American presidents. I'll see if I can find any further information. Or perhaps one of our network buddies knows more?
Hi Jennyss, I never thought about the name. I even thought it may have had something to do with where the USA president holidays I think that is called Camp David but I am not sure! My brain is toast these days. The fragrance is lovely and it's a long stem rose. I have 4 of them as standard roses and I Have to make sure I pick the flowers because the rose gets so heavy they often fall over. I have a couple of roses that need restaking at the moment but I have to pick the jobs I can do.
Beautiful @Locksley! I was intrigued by the name of the rose, so looked it up on wikipedia. I read that " 'Camp David' is a red hybrid tea rose developed by Mathias Tantau, Jr. in 1984. While the rose was hybridized in Germany, it was not introduced in its home country but in Australia, where the cultivar is well liked." However, no explanation of the name of the rose.
Hi @Annie C Your garden is lovely. The red trees are beautiful. You must have clever parrots. Our parrots eat the new shoots from the rose bushes so I am lucky to get any flowers at all.!
Dear @"Annie C", Thank you for the description of your garden; and garden history - beautiful. We have been in our house near Dubbo NSW for 19 years. It is at the edge of a rural village. A very basic garden of pot plants, a few bushes and about 10 trees including Kurrajongs and bottle trees which we have planted near the house and in the paddock. It is good to see birds using the trees.
@Caz1 Thankyou. The tree is a Poinciana. There are 12 on our block. Most are now about 15 metres in height. We planted the first one when we bought the bush block and "humpy" in July 1997. A neighbour gave us a 30 cm sapling as a house welcoming present.
We really did buy "The Little House on The Prairie". The house was literally a humpy requiring a lot of work and the "prairie" was wattle and cane grass right to the front door! Not a blade of green anywhere.
Over the years the others have been either planted by us or spread by the parrots. The parrots have been skilled gardeners and dropped the seeds in the best spot.
Poinciana trees line our driveway and ring the house providing shade, privacy and colour. In the Wet Season when the Poincianas flower, there is a riot of red and green surrounding the house. I love driving home, because as I crest the hill to our block and look down the road to the house the trees are a feast of red and green.
Most of the flowers have dropped now, making a carpet of red over the lawns and pathways. A bit of a mess, but a good downpour and the pathways are clean and I regard the fallen flowers on the lawns as good mulch!
