Today's Flowers

I found these trees on the way home from tennis...I had to turn around and find somewhere to park (in a lady's driveeway) to get this shot. Flame trees are just stunning when you see them, especially when they are growing beside a jacaranda!
and of course the carpet the jacaranda leaves on the ground....apologies to those who saw them during the week...(I couldn't wait till Sunday)...
a lovely floral arrangement at dinner during the week...I think that looks like a bromeliad flower....
a funny little ochna flower...I just discovered it is also called the mickey mouse plant...a shrub that was introduced to Australia from South Africa in the early 1900's (I think)....
a lovely garden I pass on my walk...the pink flowers were petunias I think!
and my pink flowering tree (which I had identified as a Lagunaria patersonius during the week from the herbarium at Mt Cootha)...more commonly known as a Norfolk Island Hibiscus apparently...is nearly finished flowering...very sad...
the orange bauhinia flowers away everywhere...
another hibiscus...
there is a bit of a jacaranda flowering away in the back yard....
and this is a flower on a tree at church...one which I would have called a kurrajong...but someone else thought might be a brachychiton ..OK..now I have looked it up...a kurrajong is a brachychiton.. so we were both right!

another jacaranda on the way home from church...
and another ochna under the gum tree in the front yard...
aha...the dancing lady orchid of my late mother's is finally flowering....hooray! It is very pretty and delicate....
and it looks like the azaleas are going to have another go at flowering, after the lovely rain we had on Monday....how lovely!

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