Tag: Cee's FOTD Challenge
As I was weeding today…
As I was weeding today, I noticed these flowers in my garden.
In spring I threw out a packet of meadow seeds and watered them regularly until they emerged. The packet contained mixed seed. Mostly the poppies seem to to be outnumbering everything else. I found an old sunflower that I had kept and edged the plot with its seeds. In hindsight, that was dumb because the sunflowers hide the poppies and all the rest. So in the midst of the garden these had established a home for themselves.




For Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge
Raspberry centre
Spider Plant
Found a Grevillea (please correct me if I’m wrong) on my wanderings and loved its flowers. Loving the spirals here.




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Striking in purple
This was growing beside a grave in an old cemetery. It must be hardy, because it was all quite neglected.



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Cream poppy

I threw down seed in hopes of some different flowers. Here’s my cream Californian Poppy. You might like to compare it to my others here.
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KindaSquare Square Flower
A square flower for Becky’s October Squares Photo Challenge

See where the square flower was found. Click here.
The beard in the iris

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Val’s Garden
Val loves these really colorful Peruvian lilies, More correctly they are Alstroemeria, a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. They are also known as Lily of the Incas. These photos were taken just as the rain started.







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Visit to Val’s
Today I visited a lovely garden in Cohuna, a nearby town. In a corner I noticed a tiny flash of red. Val informed me I was looking at a Queensland firewheel tree, Stenocarpus Sinuatis. It was growing a very long way from Queensland, and certainly not anywhere near a rainforest. I was taken by what was remaining of the firewheel flower. The flower, as its name suggests is shaped like a wheel.

For some reason these pics remind me of a spider dangling on a web string. I feel a little uncomfortable. If you search up a pic of the tree actually flowering, (click here) it looks very different when there are lots more wheels,

I also thought the seeds were worthy of a photo. I was all for bringing a few back home and trying to raise them in my glasshouse until Val said it takes a very long time, at least 7 years, before a tree produces any flowers.

I will have to remember to go back and get a photo when the tree has more flowers next year.
Also for Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge