Blues

Christmas in Australia is blue with Agapanthas, Plumbago, Yesterday, today and tomorrow and Hydrangeas. Every insect attracting flower, probably because there are so many insects.

Christmas collage

These flower photos are Rai's originals collected together to wish you Merry Christmas 2010

Fern leaf Geranium

This beautiful plant has the tiniest flowers and blooms many times a year.
 The foliage is like a fern with fine fronds. It's early summer.

Asiatic lilies and Grevillea - white

The lily and the grevillea are blooming together on a hot sunny day. I like eclectic gardens with Australian plants and exotics. If a plants grows well without taking over, it has a spot in my garden.

Jacarandas first week december

Jacaranda season in Sydney coincides with examination time for schools and universities.
There is a local story that Ryde hospital used to give out a Jacaranda plant to every mother whose baby was born at the hospital and now Ryde is a mass of purple in the beginning of Summer.

Parrot impatiens

Friday 3 December 2010  This impatiens is a native of Africa. The flowers come directly from the stem and look like curled snails with parrot colours.

Late Spring

A friend's house in a southern suburb of Sydney covered in Wisteria in October

The best Philadelphus shrub in Sydney in October. this specimen has more blooms than any other. Frost? Different variety?

Tiny blue flowers at Eryldene in a northern suburb of Sydney. In November this garden is full of dainty plants.

Noosa November 2010

Pineapple variety

Lake McDonald Cooroy, bougainvillea

Turpentine tree blossom in Spring

Turpentine trees are eucalypts, syncarpia - the seed pod shows the fused carpels.
The fluffy flower is hundreds of anthers.

Waratahs are in full bloom. New hybrid varieties are able to be transplanted.

Iris after rain. This iris grows in the frog pond.

Iris and roses in Galston on the October open day. This was part of a lovely parterre.

Wisteria in spring in Australia. A week after equinox. the perfume is beautiful on a warm day