Showing posts with label bougainvillea pedro Salvia guaranitica rose seduction Poinsettia cordyline palm camellia sasanqua cotoneaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bougainvillea pedro Salvia guaranitica rose seduction Poinsettia cordyline palm camellia sasanqua cotoneaster. Show all posts

Monday, 10 May 2010

"Showoffs" in May, the last month of autumn...

Rust red Bambino Bougainvillea "Pedro";

It is a show stopper with its long arching canes topped by these unusual coloured flowers. Here it grows together with two Iceberg Roses and dark wine red, small shrub; It is an unusual combination but it works well and I like it a lot.

My long time favourite Salvia guaranitica; blue and black;


Rose Seduction is enjoying autumn and is busy making new flowers. A little visitor is seduced by the pretty pink, tasty pollen and nectar.

Poinsettias are starting to colour...

My neighbours oak leaf Poinsettia is already in full swing. Every Year I look forward to see this tree in in flower, it looks so graceful;

This Cordyline has always been a favourite even when it was not at all in "fashion" thirty odd years ago. I am still thrilled by its flowers and the wonderful colours of its leaves.
It grows happily together with a blood grass. The colours suit each other very well, a planting scheme I am not going to change.


This small palm has grown of its own accord from seed lodged in mulch. I think it is what is called a Parlour Palm. I am not absolutely sure. The flowers are insignificant but the seed berries hanging on bright orange branches are spectacular and make this little Palm very special.

The magical white flowers of Camellia sasanqua. This is a big tree and it flowers first of all my Camellias, starting quite early, end of summer.

Cotoneaster is like a beacon for the birds to sample the berries.


Believe it or not:
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need -- but not for man's greed." - M. Ghandi:


Enjoy a very nice week.