an almost spent hippeastrum bloom
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Orange for May
I am smiling as my title definitely will mislead you! That is the nuisance or maybe beauty of the English language. Being non-English speakers we also have running jokes about English words with the same spelling, but have very different meanings and pronunciation. I guess i am trying to explain my title, and how i was able to misled you. Orange is not just a fruit but also a color. And I have time and again been telling you that we have a lot of orange colors, it is the most predominant color in our climate, of course aside from green. You will not blame me for saying that it bores me sometimes.
My Hippeastrum puniceum that flowered slightly even prior to the heavy rains.
Caesalpinia pulcherrima has 4 colors here in our climate, the red, the pink, the orange and the yellow! it is so alive against the clear blue sky. Butterflies love them too, and our goat kids love eating their leaves.
Their very long filaments supporting the anthers with pollens are seemingly extravagant. I wonder what they signify for the plant to perpetuate the species. Or they might be a disadvantage as the pollens might not attach to the bees sipping nectar. I just don't know!
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beautiful. i'm starting to like orange, the color. the fruit still not so much.
ReplyDeleteI need to plant some of these...the orange toned ones are absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy late inlays came to the U.S. from Europe and had the same problem with English. Your orange colors are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHi, My missionary friend just recently did some mission work in Honduras. She speaks spanish fluently --but speaks 'Mexican' spanish... She was laughing at some of the same words with different meanings there in Honduras as compared to Mexico.... Guess it's the same in English--and other languages. Aren't languages so interesting???
ReplyDeleteI am one who LOVE oranges and reds... Guess I'd never get tired of them --but if that's ALL we had, I guess I would be the same way. Your flowers/colors are awesome.
Hugs,
Betsy
Lovely flowers. Hippeastrum will always be a Christmas flower for me and I can't believe you have them growing in your garden.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful vibrant colors on these flowers.
ReplyDeleteSuch vibrant colours!!! the last image is my favourite - just the bright colours and the lavish lengths of the stamens!!!
ReplyDeleteWonderfull color
ReplyDeleteYou know I love orange on flowers, birds and fruits as it is not a color we see all year.
ReplyDeletefantastic flower photos!
ReplyDeleteWonderful flowers! This Caesalpinia is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI too am nonchalant about orange flowers. I guess we tropical gardeners are lucky we can grow so many flowers even though many are orange and red.
ReplyDeleteStunning colours and shapes.
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