Peden Street, Chirnside Park

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It’s a short steep street, good for exercise and floral beauty.

Peden Street is tree-lined with many of them red bottlebrush. When in flower they add colour to the walk and another feature of them is that they don’t grow into overhead wires and need drastic pruning.

Just as colourful when in full bloom are the brilliant yellow broom trees. Another yellow plant was the yellow flag.

On a corner block, a well-maintained picket fence featured a landscaped area on the corner.

A nice feature was a picket fence atop a brick wall.

No garden ornaments were seen, so the only item of interest was a pink milk churn mailbox.

A nice feature in one garden was a brick wall topped with balustrading.

It is certainly rose season, and many beautiful examples were seen and photographed.

Only one walker appeared.

The only avian activity was two noisy miners, a mudlark and a raven.

Daisies and pelargoniums were showing their always colourful petals.

Four individual blooms were a convolvulus ground cover, a hebe bush, a salvia hot lips and a polygala bush.

Other individual flowers were a lavender, red hot poker and a narrow-leaf palm lily, which is an evergreen Australian plant.

Common white lilies crop up in older more established gardens.

Some nice grevillea specimens are featured in a couple of gardens.

An unusual plant was several tall cape honey plants, a native of South Africa.

Almost a must for gardens a few decades ago was the South American pampas grass. Now rarely seen.

A wooden fence had two escapees, a branch of a bottlebrush and a flowering branch of a melaleuca tree.

Many gardens had iris flowers in full bloom. Two iris flowers were spotted growing through a rose bush.

Peden Street runs between Victoria Road and Roseman Road and can be found at Melway map 38. B.3.



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