Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bottle
Inspired by picturesimperfectblog’s various changing bottles I had to add a bit of Australia to the bottle prompt with a Bottlebrush flower from unchanged through various effects to #monochrome
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I’m glad I could inspire you, Brian. And I immediately had to check up on bottlebrushes because I know them so well from South Africa. But they are Australian, all right. They are just so beautiful that they have become an export hit. And surprisingly enough I mostly don’t like flowers being stripped of colour but I really, really like your monochrome bottlebrushes.
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Thanks Elke. Would I lie to you? Some Australian plants are so unique and are now in a lot of countries. Glad you like my monochromes 🙂 🙂
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My favourite story is about cosmos flowers. In autumn, the South African highveld (the high plateau where Johannesburg and Pretoria are) is just glorious in different shades of pink and white from carpets upon carpets of cosmos. Yet, cosmos are not indigenous to South Africa. They came from Australia 😁 but the interesting thing is HOW that happened. The seeds came in the horsefeed for the British troops during the Boer War around 1900.
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We have a grass we call Whiskey Grass that has red feathery seed heads. The grass started to grow along the railway tracks from the straw in the wooden crates that the American troops alcohol – Bourbon, Whiskey etc was packed in. They just tossed the straw out of the trains.
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😀 Cheers!
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😊😊😊😎
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Thanks Sue 🙂
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I had a bottlebrush tree in San Diego. It was beautiful.
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San Diego would be a good climate for Bottlebrush.
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It’s everywhere. 🙂
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We have these in Arizona, Brian. I think they’re so attractive. Nice range of shots of them.
janet
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Thanks janet. Arizona would be a good place for Bottlebrush as long as they don’t dry out too much 🙂 🙂
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Not usually when they’re growing. 🙂
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I did not know bottlebrushes were Australian, wow! I had a whole row of these beautiful trees in Mexico; the hummingbirds loved them. Awesome pictures!
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It seems I am educating a lot of people about Bottlebrush. I have no doubt that Hummingbirds would enjoy some of the varieties of Bottlebrush that have delicious nectar. Glad you enjoyed my photos Irene 🙂 🙂
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ooh you have been having fun!
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Just a tad 🙂
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We had bottle brush in CA, too. It’s so cheery and bright. I like the natural picture best for that reason.
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The are beautiful 🙂
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They are, I agree! 🙂
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