Showing posts with label Summer Blossoms and foliage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Blossoms and foliage. Show all posts

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Summer Blossoms and Foliage

Blossoms on Eucalyptus Ficifolia.


One lone Nasturtium flower and remnants of another.


Leaves and old seed pods on Crepe Myrtle in bright afternoon sunlight - showing colours of early Autumn.

Bright Yellow Double Calendula Flower.

Some flowers in my garden - it is lovely to see their bright Summer colours and the varying shades of green and leaf shape. It has been so hot here, I am surprised that they have not all wilted from lack of rain. I do get outside early in the mornings and water the smaller plants before it gets too hot; though the mornings have been warm and so too the evenings.
The larger shrubs and well established trees survive but some of the smaller, more tender plants can easily die of heat-stroke. The weather bureau keeps predicting rain, but so far none has come this way - soon I hope . . . ♥