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.


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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.