Day Lilies

Once upon a time I was not familiar with day lilies but I found one in a shop with the same name as my mother, and for a while had a whole row of them growing and blooming them at the side of the house.

They tend to die off, then come back with many flower spikes with buds, that open to a beautiful flower.

Sadly they are not useful as cut flowers, but make a magnificent show in the garden.

These blooms are in my daughter's garden, and flower well late in spring, or early summer despite her neglect. I love the different colours.

Yesterday as I was taking the photos grand daughter number two was impressed that I was interested in taking photos of her mother's flowers, and promised to phone me if more flower. We did not confirm the details, but I hope she means that if more of the plants inthe garden burst forth in bloom she will tell me.

There are many buds on the plants that are already in bloom, and another 6 or so plants still to show their colours.

Hotel foyer

The flowers in the hotel were amazing too. These two views are of the same arrangement. One side looked quite different to the other. We found it hard to determine initially what flowers were plastic and what were real. The orchids were plastic, the leaves and some of the lillies were real. We knew this because of the exquisite fragrance and the feel of the petals.

The Lotus Flowers

In the ponds near the entrance to the college were many plastic pots with small sticks in them. That's what they looked like when we arrived at the college just as winter was almost over. In the spring there was some activity in the pots and the sticks seemed to come to life - and green foliage slowly emerged. The gardeners put the pots further into the centre of the pond, and soon the foliage was flourishing. Goldfish swim in the pond and now had something to play hide and seek around. Just a couple of weeks ago I noticed the flowers. Beautiful strong flowers on a tall straight stem. There are pale pink, darker pink and white blooms and they are exquisite. When the flower fully opens up the seed pod is revealed and it grows larger as the petals fall into the water.

Frangipanni

I love frangipannis. They are a wonderful tropical flower with the most sensational fragrance. Most of us are familiar with the most common of frangipannis - a pale yellow with a darker yellow streak. Whilst the flower and fragrance are wonderful the tree itself is quite ugly.

In winter when all the leaves have fallen it looks a stark ugly jumble of sticks, but as spring comes, there is a little activity at the pointy end of each branch and soon the buds and foliage burst forth.

It flowers contunuously for some time and the spent flowers fall in a carpet below the plant.

Why Tottie's Blooms - Gerbera.

Well, you could ask"Why Tottie?" but I'm not going to explain it here. It is already explained elsewhere.

I've realised that I have a lot of flower photos so I thought I'd post them all on one site. I have hundreds, so much to add.

I have always loved flowers and over the years had many blooms in my garden. The Gerbera has become very popular in our household as we created and managed a Gerbera Farm here in Brisbane Queensland. So it is only right that my first photo would be of a Gerbera, and you'll see many of them as you peruse this site.