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It is a while since I posted photos here of the flowers that appeal to me.  I will soon update this site.

Agapanthus

Bamboo and Agapanthus at Adelaide Zoo

Adelaide Zoo is fantastic.  I read somewhere that it is not just a zoo, but a garden where animals live.  There are many bamboo plantings especially around the Giant Panda exhibit, and the rows of agapanthus are beautiful.

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.