Hydrangea

Just a recent shot of a nearby garden, extraordinary that the ph level of the soil can vary the colour of the blooms from branch to branch.

Allyssum

(Sweet) Alyssum
(Lobularia maritima)

4 to 8 inches tall by 1 foot wide Honey-scented flowers are white, pink, rose or purple. Late spring until frost Alyssum may decline in midsummer.

Shear, feed and water to rejuvenate.

Creeping Betty – or ? cultivar

vine

I’ve always propagated by cutting and the original plant on my balcony is now ten years old with may it of it in other pots and given away. I don’t know the proper name for this one and drew a blank n a Google search as Creeping Betty, although that was the name on the stick which came with the original plant. It grows rapidly, doesn’t mind having cuttings taken and often needs to be cut back. It flowers but once a year, a shame because it is very showy.

Gazania – wildflower

Family: Asteraceae
Form: Herb
Origin: Native to South Africa.
Weed Type(s): Weed, Naturalised, Garden Escape, Environmental Weed
also: Treasure Flower

Gazania is a tough, low-growing perennial herb with lance-shaped leaves and brightly coloured daisy-like flowers in bronze, yellow and orange tones. It produces abundant wind-blown seeds and spreads rapidly. It withstands salt-laden winds and grows well in sandy soils. It is often spread in garden waste.

Gazania is widespread and common in Victoria and naturalised in South Australia and Western Australia.

The related Coastal gazania, Gazania rigens, has become naturalised on coastal dunes and along roadsides from southern Sydney to the central coast, on the Eyre Peninsula and southern Mt Lofty region of South Australia and in the Moreton region of South-east Queensland.

They need the sun, and soil has to be very well drained and watered daily It faired through the winter here in British Columbia in a balcony planter and continues to bloom rofusely. I bought the plants last year.

Daisy – Belis Perennis – wildflower

Daisy (Bellis perennis)
also: prairie daisy, mountain daisy, madelefje

Small wildflower daisy which grows among the grasses in open fields, just a few inches tall. Propagate by division. Plants will grow happily in pots, if crowded in among other plants with lots of available sunlight.