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I thought you might enjoy these photos of one of the hebes that’s currently flowering-like-crazy in my garden.<\/p>\nI thought you might enjoy these photos of one of the hebes that’s currently flowering-like-crazy in my garden.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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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.”<\/p>\n
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J Church, the friend who took this pic, of another hebe in the garden, did a better job of capturing the bee \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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