Lavender

Lavender at the Lyndoch Lavender Farm - this farm, shop, cafe is a good place to visit from Adelaide South Australia in the Barossa Valley.

Verbena Gone Wild

As I neared Miles (Queensland) I was impressed to see fields of purple flowers (purple is my favourite colour), though I knew not what they were until I spoke with folk at Miles.

They are not native to Australia, and sadly have run amok around the west of Brisbane.  Along the side of the roads, there are purple patches of these flowers.  They go for hundreds of kilometers.  The local folk get angry that in the city, these plants are for sale - giving further opportunity for them to be seeded and sent further into places where they are not wanted.

My Favourite Flower Photo

It is along time since our Flower Farm closed - and I often reflect on the busy life we lead at tht time, and how we enjoyed working with the flowers.  It is nearly four years since it closed.

I still find this photo in my computer and remember it all, and am thankful that I could take this photo.  The frog waited for me to go to my car and get the camera and was waiting for me when I came back.  

I love these, and I have had a continual display of them as I have quite a few potted orchids.

These (and others) are a few of my favourite things.....

I think of Julie Andrews and the Sound of Music when I say those words.  But flowers are some of my favourite things.

Sadly I have no garden of my own now since our house sold last year, and I am house sitting so have no garden.  I pass by our old house and note that some of my treasured plants have been pulled out and I assume destroyed.  All that work I put in, gone.   But you can't take them all with you, and life goes on.

Day Lily

These are some of my favourite flowers, but as the name suggests, they last just a day.  Day Lilies are easy to grow though, and if you have many in the garden they will supply lots of wonderful colour and bring smiles!!!

Orchid - to be saved.

Spathoglottis - sounds more like a disease.  But it is a little ground orchid, native to a range of places including norther Australia.

I bought a pot from Bunnings recently and it has been flowering well and now has a new flower bud reaching to the top of the plants.  I will need to repot it - it does seem to be struggling in the little pot it came in, so will do that, perhaps after the bud has bloomed.

It is reported to be 'vulnerable' in northern Australia but the commercial growing of it will help to ensure that it lives on.

ps.  (March 12th)  I am glad I took the photo above - as now the flower, thanks to a couple of feasting grubs which have decimated the flower and the new bud, it looks pretty awful.  I might just buy a new one and keep it inside the house.