Friday, June 24, 2011

Just A Little Flaunt!

I'm joining Tootsie for her Flaunt Your Flowers/Fertiliser Friday meme, Mary for her Mosaic Monday meme and Today's Flowers with my post today.


I would encourage you to pop over to these blogs and enjoy the posts.
The moon won't go to bed today and is still hanging around our winter sky at 10.00 am  in the morning.  It's another beautiful blue-sky day with just a hint of a chill in the air.  So let's take a quick peek at what's blooming around my place on this winter's day here in north-eastern Oz.

As I was strolling along the little pathway to the courtyard ...

off to my right, I noticed the first coloured bracts on my variegated Bougainvillea, which had to be trimmed back severely in the post-cyclone clean-up.
Very soon those bracts will open up to reveal the tiny white flower that generally goes unnoticed inside. 

To my left I noticed the Sanseviera trifasciata is showing a spike of greenish-white fragrant flowers.  This plant is regarded as a weed in my area of the world, but my patch is contained in a garden bed at the back of the courtyard and hasn't spread anywhere else as yet.  The patch has been flowering sporadically now for around two years.

Around the courtyard there are various potted plants in bloom.

The Impatiens hawkerii 'Celebrette Orchid Star', Azalea, Spathoglottis, Petunias, Gomphrena globosa, Antirrhinum 'Strawberry Crush' and 'Velveteen', as well as the Osteospermum are all in bloom.

My Zygocactus is showing off at the moment and makes an eye-catching display on the wooden table in the centre of the courtyard.

There is quite a bit of colour from foliage plants as well, and not just from the annuals which are starting to make themselves known at long last.

There's a little pot of Lavender and Lobelia which just can't go unnoticed.

As I wander on into the house and out into the shadehouse garden,

I notice the various Impatiens walleriana are flowering wonderfully once again.  I missed their colourful display during the long wet season and it's terrific to see their colours peering out between the fronds of the Giant Sword Fern.

The Dragon Wing Begonias power on in all conditions, wet and dry.  I just wouldn't be without them.

Wandering through the shadehouse garden, I stop to take a look at the tiered garden bed just outside.

The Iresine herbstii 'Blazin Rose' is simply covered in spikes of white flowers ....

... and a few of the old faithfuls are still carrying on as usual.  Mandevilla 'White Fanstasy', Euphorbia pulcherrima, Cuphea hyssopifolia, Pentas and Gerbera.

34 comments:

  1. well now Bernie...your gardens NEVER stop wowing me!!! I love the things you grow...and am jealous that you can grow outside some of the plants I can only grow inside!!!
    thank you for faitfully linking in each week...and for the visits...and all that jazz...even though I have been so busy lately that I don't often get to blog hop and visit everyone all the time anymore! I appreciate it more than you know.

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  2. Beautiful blue sky and gorgeous flowers. Have a good weekend.

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  3. How nice the plants and flowers you have! It's gorgeous.

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  4. Wow Bernie ~ I never come away disappointed after visiting one of your posts. What a wonderful array of blooms and foliage you have. I'm so glad your gardens are doing well after all the damage done earlier by that storm.

    Enjoy your cooler weather.

    FlowerLady

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  5. Bernie,

    It looks like you are beginning to come back from the terrible storms. I love the fact that many of our houseplants live outside in your area and become invasive.

    Eileen

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  6. Your winter garden is lovely Bernie. Love the mosaics too. V

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  7. As always, a refreshing tour! I love that dragon wing begonia, and you captured it beautifully in your photo.

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  8. Bernie, you have more plants blooming in the winter than I will have at any time during our 'growing season' of twelve weeks, lol. I am always amazed at the beauty in your gardens. I never knew iresine bloomed, how lovely!

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  9. The little lobelia are just so pretty! Lovely images.

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  10. Such gorgeous blossoms! I've grown Sanseviera but it has never bloomed. What is the secret?

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  11. Good grief Bernie, you have more blooming in Winter than we did in Spring! I love the blossoms on the dragon wing begonias!

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  12. What a beautiful collection of pinks (with a splash of mauve)!

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  13. Such a beautiful place, magic in the garden!

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  14. Beautiful flowers! So lucky to have blooms in winter. Where I live, winter means snow, ice and absolutely no flowers.

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  15. Your zygocactus is very attractive. I have always failed with this plant. I liked your mosaics with colours balanced so nicely.

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  16. Wow! That is so neat how you accent a picture inside of a picture. The flowers are beautiful, and your photography is too!

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  17. Great shots from your wonderful garden! So many beautiful flowers and plants!

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  18. you have an enchanting garden! love your collages, beautiful blooms! thanks for visiting.

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  19. A lovely series of the prettiest flowers. Just gorgeous colors and love the lighting in all your photos.

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  20. Gorgeous blooms!! I love how you captured each of them.

    Today's Flower at my page.

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  21. I am always amazed at your beautiful flowers. Your gardens are just gorgeous and I enjoyed your photos and mosaics. Have a wonderful week!

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  22. What gorgeous photos! And I love the mosaics with the photo on top of the other photo! What a dramatic effect! You have some beautiful pinks...and lovely lavender! ♥

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  23. A wonderful journey through you garden!!! Beautiful as always! Cathy

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  24. Wow, Bernie your garden is beautiful and so colourful and full of flowers.

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  25. I love walking through gardens and yours is just gorgeous! Have a wonderful week!

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  26. Wowzer...your garden is growing beautifully. It obviously enjoys the cooler temps.

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  27. Wow - the layers of colour are mind-blowing. Such exotica to me!

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  28. I love your garden! You have many wonderful blooms including thoseo f E.pulcherrima.And,I recall I almost couldn't believe that Sanseviera will flower when I first saw them. At that time, I tought the plant would not flower. Btw, your impatiens are delightful :-D

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  29. Such a lovely garden you have Bernie! Your winter season starts and other summer season. Have a nice week.

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  30. You have a wonderful array of flowers in your garden, Bernie! Your mosaics are beautiful!
    We call Zygocactus "Christmas Cactus" here in the states, as they usually bloom around that season in our hemisphere!

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  31. What a wonderful display! Your flowering cactus reminds me of mine which do not bloom until November and December...so pretty. Thanks for the tour...

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  32. It was fun seeing plants that are familiar to me, and some that are not. You have a lovely place, Bernie!

    Thanks for your comment on my Bloomin' Tuesday post.

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  33. Omigosh Bernie, your garden is so beautiful! All of these plants are so exotic, and so different from what I normally see here... It's like another world!

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