Note: House Circuit posts are drawn from the many 50 metre walks I make every day around our house.
The other day I noticed a clump of off-white flowers thrusting itself up, like an aerial cauliflower, from somewhere at the overgrown rear of our old caravan. I got as close as I could and concluded that it must be an
Olearia, a daisy bush, and one of the many New Zealand plants I had acquired over the years. It looked most like
Olearia x haastii, a natural hybrid. Searching my computer I found a diary entry for the plant and discovered I had bought it from a local nursery in 1981 and planted it at the back of this self-same caravan. Presumably it has been struggling through brambles and nettles for 35 years finally to emerge into the sunshine.
Whilst scrambling about at the rear of the caravan I spotted some clematis flowers high in an old damson tree here. It turned out to be
Clematis viticella 'Huldine'. This may be a plant I bought as
C. flammula at the same time as the
Olearia above. I certainly have no record or recollection of putting
C. 'Huldine' anywhere else in the garden.
The other day I noticed a clump of off-white flowers thrusting itself up, like an aerial cauliflower, from somewhere at the overgrown rear of our old caravan. I got as close as I could and concluded that it must be an Olearia, a daisy bush, and one of the many New Zealand plants I had acquired over the years. It looked most like Olearia x haastii, a natural hybrid. Searching my computer I found a diary entry for the plant and discovered I had bought it from a local nursery in 1981 and planted it at the back of this self-same caravan. Presumably it has been struggling through brambles and nettles for 35 years finally to emerge into the sunshine.
Whilst scrambling about at the rear of the caravan I spotted some clematis flowers high in an old damson tree here. It turned out to be Clematis viticella 'Huldine'. This may be a plant I bought as C. flammula at the same time as the Olearia above. I certainly have no record or recollection of putting C. 'Huldine' anywhere else in the garden.
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