Annie's Blog

I think the above photo might have appeared in last week's flower post...sorry if I am repeating myself! some of these flowers I have almost forgotten where I took the photos. But this one is in the park garden across the road here at Inwood. these roses were at the local Catholic church...lovely! There are a couple of close ups of these red ones further down in this post. and another garden at the entrance to the park... I really love these couple of shots of the lavender.... and of course the blue irises.... these pink flowers were colorful and striking! and I just loved the pink roses, at the Dyckman farmhouse....absolutely gorgeous. More below. a gardenia? are these little blue ones forget me nots? pansies of course.. yellow roses again at ther Dyckman farmhouse and the pink flower again...I wonder what it is? Unfamiliar to me. For more of Today's Flowers from around the world, please click on the Today's Flowers icon 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...