A Hebe Wall :)
I thought you might enjoy these photos of one of the hebes that’s currently flowering-like-crazy in my garden.
I suspect the flowering-like-crazy part may have something to do with our summer being far wetter than usual this year, since normally the summers where I live are very dry.
Whatever the reasons, this particular plant is pretty spectacular this year. And I’m not the only one who thinks so: the bees were going crazy for it the day I took these photos. In fact there are quite a few in both photos but they’re blending into the photo background. 🙂
Hebes are endemic to NZ and one of the country’s most popular garden plants. This particular plant is a garden cultivar and I’m pretty sure it’s moniker is “Icing Sugar.”
J Church, the friend who took this pic, of another hebe in the garden, did a better job of capturing the bee 😉
It certainly makes a colourful start to the week, although I shall be focusing on the gloom-shrouded Wall of Night, with its bitter peaks, rather than walls of hebe in the garden—except on my breaks, of course!
Lovely stuff
It “is” very pretty! 🙂
We have snow … so this is particularly appreciated from the Mid-Atlantic of the US.
So glad if it’s brought you a touch of summer in the midst of the bleak midwinter. 🙂
It looks lovely. I think I have something similar in my garden.
I was being cautious in the blog, saying “one of the most popular”, but some of the material I’ve seen calls them NZ’s most popular garden plant, although I wasn’t sure whether they meant of all plant types, or those that are native to NZ.