New blooms in the jungle garden.

This year we grew corn for the first time in our garden, it was the honey and pearl variety and though I only grow my veges in raised beds I still found room to grow the corn in one of the beds, the seeds all germinated, and we enjoyed having fresh home grown corn for tea. I will definitely be making room for more corn in the garden next year, and may even grow a larger crop in one of the bigger beds.

What other veges are growing at the moment? Leeks are almost ready and I planted out another lot of leek seedlings for late winter /spring harvest, Rhubarb is starting to die back now as we have had a couple of quite hard frosts over the last week or two so I will be harvesting some of that later today. The Kale and Silver beet plants are making very slow growth will try giving them some compost tea to boost there growth a bit.

 Amazingly some of the roses are still flowering this Burgundy rose is one of my favourites.

This beautiful yellow rose is I think a David Austin rose, still flowering....

 Recently we removed a large native tree/shrub from our front garden which had grown so large it was shading over a few of the roses out the front, when we took it out we noticed two roses that had not flowered in the time we have lived here. (three years) Over the last few weeks they have produced these lovely blooms.

 Unfortunately like many of the roses here I have no idea of the names, and I think the yellow one below maybe a climber.

The front yard is now mostly all in roses and most of the overgrown trees and shrubs are gone, I have planted some Hebe's out in this area they should provide some contrast with the roses as they will be purple and most of the roses out the front are yellows.