Annie's Blog

A series of the latest blooms, taken mainly on a walk down to the shop...this wonderful magnolia in flower... the peach blossom in flower out at tennis last week.. and interesting plant I discovered, (above) but know not what it is... irises must be one of my favorites a quick trip over to an orchid show at the Botanic Gardens a week ago... some natives from my walk to the shops...I can never remember of they are grevillea or bottlebrush...or is a bottlebrush the same as a grevillea anyway? a poinsettia of the pink variety, taken from underneath and of course the NZ Christmas bush again...I think this has featured here before...grows fairly prolifically at the beach (Sunshine Coast)...and in New Zealand too I presume!

Flowers are such a wonderful thing on a special occasion. They can say we love you, when we say goodbye to a good friend, husband, brother, brother in law. and they can also be just ordinary flowers growing in a garden, but how they can cheer us when our faces alight on theirs.... and they almost seem to have even more significance when a marriage is celebrated, don't you think? And then when you come home to your own garden, there is often a little overlooked gem sitting beaming at you from the bushes. Thank you to my little zygocactus , for being a faithful flower every year. This post is for the Brenda Photo Challenge this month...on FLOWERS...can you guess? Please click on the Brenda Photo Challenge over in the sidebar to see other participants.