TODAY'S FLOWERS

I can't remember whether I have shown you this frangipani tree...a white one..with a purple branch in there! Can you see it?

And of course I couldn't resist taking this photo of peeling bark at the bus stop while I was waiting for a bus! There was a little jacaranda flower captured in there! They often drop on me while I am out on my morning walk! And peeling bark is all around my yard now with all the gum trees shedding bark at this time of year!

This is one of the culprits, Now I am sure the herbarium over at the Botanic Gardens told me one year that this was of the eucalyptus species..but I could be wrong. Anyway, it is flowering away at the moment. As a lot of the gum tress are...and the local lorikeets are twittering away out there very happy..drunk no doubt! And the mess they make of the trees...rubbish strewn all over the ground underneath. Whole little branches chewed off! They must get super energised while drunk, eh?

My petria...I never know whether that is spelt with an I or an E...must look it up soon! Hope I didn't post this last week..if I did I will have to remove it! Oops, if I do..it will remove all copies everywhere on both my blogs...mm. Perhaps not, sorry!

and my ONE agapanthus flowering away! One year I had 32 of them flower, and since then for several years...none! This year I have this one and another one that isn't flowering yet!

A strikingly vivid Red Bougainvillea.

and another Iris...I can never resist these pretty little things!

Not sure I know the name for this one.

Gazanias are always a good show...as long as the sun is out!

Ah, the frangipanis are out at last..how pretty they are!

This little weed is taking over...all the cracks in the pavers around the pool! It is like a what I call a baby's breath that they use in bouquets! Only pink.

the pink frangipani out the front...was looking striking against a storm dark sky the other day!

Now a good tennis friend told me the name of this at church yesterday...was it something like an erithinia? Should that have a y in it...I am not much of a botanist am I?

As I said the jacarandas power on out there...this one was down by the river at Mandalay! I think they are getting to be just past their prime. I took a photo of a lovely one out at the uni yesterday, with all the purple carpet underneath, but I haven't downloaded it yet..(most unusual) so it will have to be next week's feature..then I think they might have finished by then. I drove out there to Mandalay to have a look..haven't been there for ages! It is very pretty out there beside the river, but very low lying...they would have all been under water in the great flood of 1983! So much as I would love to live out there ... I wouldn't ! And to make matters simple...I couldn't afford to anyway! I took a photo of the "Road to Mandalay". Do you remember the song?

But this Mandalay always reminds me of a very famous book...I wonder if you remember which one I am thinking of...or is it only people in the UK who would remember..come on Cath? I was very disappointed in looking it up, when I discovered that they had a different spelling...I had forgotten that! What a shame!

The book opens with the sentence..."Last night I dreamt I went back to Manderley". I think that is how it goes....someone one must remember...I will give you a hint...the book's name was the name of one of my grandchildren! (A grand daughter). (smile..not much of a hint...or was it)?

And the hoya I inherited from Mum and Dad when Mum shifted to a nursing village is doing well under my neglect...and flowers from time to time to surprise me. Such an unusual flwer!

Todays Flowers ...other contributor's entries for today can be seen if you click on the link up there in my sidebar! Hopefully Mr Linky will be open for this week!