My daughter does not like the roses in her garden - they have survived abject neglect for many years but still throw up some amazing blooms from time to time.
On the bud in the bottom picture you can see the infestation of bugs.
Sometimes plants don't mind neglect.
The Hippeastrums in my own garden have not flowered yet, and so far there are only two buds so I don't expect much this season.
Some in my garden have clearly died (we are not allowed to water our gardens because of the drought). The ones in the pots have survived.
These blooms are in my daughter's garden. She does nothing to them - how they have survived is a mystery.
This fabulous show of larkspurs were in the Roma St Parklands, Brisbane. Fabulous show of colour.
In a walk through the Roma St Parklands (Brisbane Australia) I found some more irises. Slightly different to the ones I photographed earlier, but still fabulous around the lakes.
I have a new camera - a Canon SLR and I'm having a wonderful time trying out using it. How wonderful that it is a digital camera and I can delete my "errors".
I've taken quite a few photos of Irises - because I have "found" them in the most amazing places.
There seemed to be quite a few flowering in China in spring, and also in South Korea, where I saw masses of them in flower making a magic scene.
Sadly I've not seen them in such numbers here in Australia, though I am sure that in New South Wales, or Victoria there are huge fields of them - I just haven't seen them.
I purchased a bunch (5 stems) today, some of them were partly opened like this one, but others were still in bud and surely will open over the next few days.
As I have a new Canon SLR Camera, I've been taking lots of photos - and thought this one was good. Enjoy.
My daughter does not like the roses in her garden - they have survived abject neglect for many years but still throw up some amazing blooms from time to time.
The Hippeastrums in my own garden have not flowered yet, and so far there are only two buds so I don't expect much this season.
This fabulous show of larkspurs were in the Roma St Parklands, Brisbane. Fabulous show of colour.
I will have to do some research to find the names of some of these flowers. They were all blooming in Roma St Parklands, in Brisbane, Queensland.
