Anthurium

These are spectacular flowers - the anthurium - and not easy to grow, but these are all flowering at the house where I am house sitting.  In fact there are several plants and they all have several flowers on each plant.

It is my duty to keep these flowers alive and well - and they sit on a small table on the back deck, for the moment looking very healthy.

Hippeastrums

I love these wonderful flowers. During autumn and winter there is nothing to see in a garden where hippeastrums grow and come spring they push through the soil in some places looking like a giant green spear that opens out to brilliant coloured flowers.

These flowers were in the garden of one of my house sits at Manly in Queensland, Australia.

Varieties grow in the Central and South America in the tropical areas.

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Hibiscus

This is a beautiful Hibiscus from a garden on Lamb Island where I have done some housesitting. The garden there is quite new - just a couple of years old and has some very interesting blooms in it. Hibiscus are a flower that is more often associated with Hawaii but they grow very well here in Australia, particularly in the hotter parts.