Day: May 26, 2024

Around the garden (finding flowers)

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Lens-Artists Challenge #301: Floral

I decided to be floral at home. A lot of the flower photos taken over the past few weeks either have bees or birds on the flowers. So that is why I went on an adventure to discover what flowers are still here in Autumn. You may thank me for not including all of the flowers as the post would have been far too long.

I bought some Plants needing a home. They looked rather sad in the nursery. This Stock flower was the only flower, so far, from the punnet. It is very late in the season for Stocks to flower.

Am Allamanda vine trails over a shed

Last year I planted Marigolds and let the flowers stay on the plants. This year I have new garden bed of Marigold flowers.

The Gerberas have been lovely even if they are a little ragged but the Stingless Native Bees don’t mind

Other Gerberas are still putting on a show

The Bottlebrush flowers have been amazing this year. The trees are full of Honeyeaters as well of flowers

One of the early plantings, Cape Honeysuckle are still growing among a tangle of other plants. I was surprised to find some flowers

All of the Salvias are flowering. Only one variety shown of four

I love Dianthus and this pot of plants is seemingly never ending, always has flowers of many colours

While out I came across the dreaded weed Lantana, a real pest on my place. The flowers are pretty, pretty poisonous to horses and cattle especially the red variety. This is a representation as they aren’t like this, I used a function on my camera called Vivid

Same again for this variety of Lantana although this one isn’t poisonous to stock.

I have shown my garden favourite, Cats Whiskers many times. I wonder what they would look like in Vivid too

Two Blue Triangles (equals more)

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Becky’s #SquaresRenew

These photos go back quite a few years. One of my photo quests from the past was to get a photo of a Blue Triangle Butterfly. I had taken one or two quick grab photos in the past but they were never good enough to show.
One day I was at a friends place helping out in the garden when I noticed two Blue Triangle Butterflies darting among the bushes in the garden.
I hastened to get my camera which was close by. By the time I had my camera and my spotter told me where they had gone. By then, they had made friends.

Unfortunately they were deep in the foliage and no way I could see them clearly. I was content to have some almost good photos to show who splendid they are.

As butterflies can do, they decided to do somewhere else, still joined and flying a short distance. I would have liked to get that flying photo but I was too slow Sneaking around to see where they had gone, I found them.
Aren’t they beautiful butterflies.

Lot’s of Butterfly songs to choose from but Kasey Musgrave won