365 Days In Nature - Day 179

One of the Canna Lilies that keep popping up in our garden.

365 Days In Nature - Day 86

One of the bromeliads under the mango tree has bloomed!

Day 21 - 365 Days In Nature

These flowers have encouraged my new love of red.
Beautiful poincianas against a blue sky.
My favourite tree in our front yard!

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Red Bromeliad

This is from our garden.
The foliage of these plants is not very attractive,
but the flower spikes are stunning.

Red

Still in the botanical gardens...
I have no idea what this is, but I think it's pretty cool.

Red Velvet Hibiscus

This stunning flower was growing in my sister's garden.
I'd never seen one this colour before...gorgeous!

Handmade Red Lamé Bauble

Day 10 of Christmas photos.
Another handmade ornament today.
Every year I like to make some decorations for the Christmas tree to fit the theme.
This year I covered 5 polystyrene balls with red lamé, and decorated them with sequins and crystals.
I made them using purple, pink, blue, fuchsia and gold sequins.
Very bling-y!
This is the fuchsia one.

Red Bauble

Day 3 of the Christmas photos.
This ornament was given to me by one of my students in 2001.
I thought it was so thoughtful.
It has my name on one side, and Merry Christmas 2001 on the other.
I only wish it had the name of the child who gave it to me because I cannot, for the life of me, remember who it was!

Taken with Nikon D3100

Flame Tree

The jacaranda season is almost over.
Now we have flame trees.
Stunning!

Taken with Nikon D3100

Ornamental Red Pineapple

Another photo from our nearby park.
At first I thought I had discovered another bromeliad flower spike.
I hadn't seen one quite like this before.
It looks like a red pineapple.
And after a little research (thank you Google) I found it is actually an ananas bracteatus.
An ornamental red pineapple.
Isn't it wonderful, the things Google can tell you?!

Taken with Nikon D3100

Hibiscus

I love these plants because they flower all year round.
Even when all other flowers have withered and died for winter, these blooms keep on smiling.

Bottle Brush Flower

It's bottle brush season.
This is from our boy's tree and it is about to be covered in them.
When I see these, I almost like red.

Bromeliad

These flowers are stunning...shame about their leaves which are very ugly!

Red Hibiscus

Here's a beautiful summery flower for you...for the middle of winter!

Another one from my mother-in-law's garden.
She must think I'm a little crazy, I'm always wandering around her garden with my camera!!

Red Curl

We didn't plant this.
But it's growing in our back garden.
So I guess it's a weed.
Pretty though!