Festival of Flowers – Floral Friday

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This week I chose to feature a couple of native plants, from our garden, which have been in flower for a few weeks now.

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Grevillia.
Like all plant families there are many types of grevillia.

This one may be the Grevillia ‘Superb‘ (according to Wikipedia).

Grevillia ‘Superb‘ is a dwarf plant (1-2 metres high) and is covered with these delicate flowers. The birds love them.

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Correa, Dusky Bells.

Growing to about 1 metre high, with a 2-3 metre spread Dusky Bells is a shrubby sort of ground cover.  Dusky Bells produces many flowers which are only about 2.5 centimetres (one inch) in length. I love the this one as foliage is just as it appears here all year round and it flowers for a  long time.  Not everyone will agree.

It is commonly known as the native fuchsia.

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Just for the record, these are my photos taken in our garden.

There are similar photos on the web

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Someone commented about the Daphne mentioned in last week’s post.

Ours is just beginning to bloom so I will try to capture it in full bloom if it ever reaches that stage.

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Floral Friday                                                         Festival of Flowers

 

 

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• Floral Friday (scsurfbutler.com)
• travelwithintent.com/2013/08/09/rare-lobelia/