Kerryville Gardens

I wrote about the Kerryville Garden in my other blog.   These are some of the flowers from that garden.

Heliconia

Rose of .....

Heliconia

Heliconia

Orachid

Hibiscus

Heliconi

Gardens at Australia Zoo, Queensland

Fabulous staghorn

Heliconia

It was a pretty wet day and I did not take my Canon SLR into the park so I used my little point and shoot Samsung camera. (I have bought an annual pass so that I can go with camera on a fine day!)

The gardens are fabulous and I look forward to going back one day to see more!  Read my post about our visit here.

More Heliconias

Throughout the magnificent Singapore Botanical Gardens there are great stands of Heliconia - and any Heliconia lover like me will enjoy seeing the different species on display.

I have one of these in my garden but it has never looked as spectaular as this specimen. They are great in flower arrangements and do last a long time in the vase.

Heliconia and Ginger Flowers

I have long been a lover of Heliconia and Ginger flowers - and as we live in a subtropical area, they grow quite well, although this last season they did not do very well as we have had so little rain. They love rain - heat and high humidity, and barely flower without the optimum conditions.

Singapore is great for these flowers as well as Orchids and while we were there we say many of them.

We went for a long walk around the Singapore Botanical Gardens which are spectacular -

this one is one of the wonderful single ginger flower.