Friday, 4 April 2014

Sandersonia Aurantiaca

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Erythronium revolutum or Dog Tooth Violets



This flower is with slightly reflexed pink petals one of the little joys of spring is when the Dog Tooth Violets come into flower.  At first their glossy green marbled leaves appear and then these beautiful flowering stems emerge. They're native flowers in the USA and cherished so much in UK gardens.Photo Credit: Rosie Nixon

The Dahlia's are in full bloom here in the Adelaide Botanic gardens

The Dahlia's are in full bloom here in the Adelaide Botanic gardens

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Alstroemeria

You can say anything you like, but your actions show your real attitude.

Hellebores


Hellebores are fanciful, easy-care perennials for the shade that tolerate drought and are highly deer and rabbit resistant because they are poisonous. One of the first perennials to bloom in spring, hellebore ensures no-fuss color for the shade. Do you have hellebores.

Beautiful Dandelion

This time I have a beautiful yellow flower for you, a dandelion, which is pretty common and commonly pretty they are.

Hepatica along the Fiery Gizzard Trail in the South Cumberland

Hepatica along the Fiery Gizzard Trail in the South Cumberland. Always look forward to these early signs of the return of Spring.

Monday, 31 March 2014

Calliandra haematocephala (Red Powder Puff, Powder Puff Tree)

Calliandra haematocephala (Red Powder Puff, Powder Puff Tree).
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding." - Gian Carlo Menotti