Annie's Blog

an hibiscus flower in the front yard... one of the orchids...see more below... a strangely exotic flower on a tree at the Botanic Gardens and a display of native plants at the Botanic Gardens... I think the above are some sort of eucalyptus flowers... a delicate melaleuca an native orchid above from Stradbroke Island and irises at the gardens... a tropical palm at church today.... another sort of orchid above... purple bougainvillea..... my calistemon.... the jacarandas....are starting to bloom... and a petria in bloom.... a pretty bauhinia I noticed the other day.... poinsettia above... more calistemons.... and the orchids again... I hope you have enjoyed the flowers from this week in tropical South East Queensland.... If you would like to see more flowers from around the world...then please click on the Today's Flowers icon in the sidebar over there...

My bromeliads are starting to flower...as they usually do at this time of the year! Sorry I don't know the names of these blue and yellow flowers...or the orange one either. I found a second nerine in the garden...good to know I have two of them! A jacaranda ..flowering in March,,quite unusual! And these trees are in flower. This is not a very good photo, but they are yellow flowers! If you would like to see other flowers from contributors from around the world, please click on the TODAY'S FLOWERS icon over in the sidebar!

Last week I found the LOTUS flowers out at the Botanic Gardens They grow in this tiny little rectangle outside the library and admin buldings. the native bees thought they were pretty good too! then I went in to look at the bromeliad display...this one was most unusual! even the cycad was in flower outside...it is a long time since I lived in Darwin on 5 acres and had these growing all over the place meanwhile back to the bromeliads...a lot of my photos were out of focus..silly me, as I had the camera on the wrong setting... but this one wasn't too bad.... another look at the lotus on my way out! Then the pink flwoering tree down the road was out...so I took a photo of it...unfortuantely this isnt it...this is mine in a previous year...my flowers this year are coming out slowly one by one... It is such a pretty thing, and I don't even know the name and the poincianas are coming out too...just as the jacarandas are fading...it seems early for the poincianas... I went u...