Saturday, 14 December 2013

Flowers at Caboolture Historical Village

I am a volunteer at the Caboolture Historical Village - which is just north of Brisbane, Queensland.  It is a wonderful place full of the most extra ordinary history - and, I am pleased to say, a lovely garden.

Last week, when visitors from Bundaberg were in the Village - they asked about some flowers.  I had no idea what they were called but took a photo and showed our head gardener, who identified them as Foxglove.

 
 

Another visitor had asked about purple foliage (funny, really as I love purple and wear a lot of it and it is odd that the plants I have been asked about are purple...),  under a sign near the railway station.



This plant is called a Purple Shield or Persian Shield.  It is quite a beautiful plant.

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