Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Flowers, flowers!

It is a new month once again, time to post a lot of flowers. Since i have been posting everything about New Zealand, i might as well be posting all flowers from there. Flowers are scattered everywhere there, even the weeds are beautifully colored with blooms. If i will not stop, my memory card will all be full of them. And that is almost a literal reality. But mind you, i am living in the Philippines, these are just from my travel there.

 Flowers i am posting here are mostly from the Government Gardens in Rotorua. I might not be familiar with them, i only know a very few ones, but i am sure my temperate country blogger friends are even more familiar with these plants. Labels are not there in the gardens, so i guess they are common ones. But for me they are very uncommon. I am from the tropics, of course, these are novelties for me. Please feel free to provide their identities if you can. Thank you.

 gazania


gazania


 carnation

 cosmos

red salvia



Posted by Andrea at 10:23 AM
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11 comments:

  1. Photo CacheFebruary 16, 2016 at 11:50 AM

    Nice to see you here again. Hope you had overcome the medical thingy. Stay well.

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  2. Janneke February 17, 2016 at 4:46 AM

    I visited the Government gardens in Rotorua a long time ago. Most of the flowers I recognize as we grow them here in The Netherlands too. The orange flowers near the house are Hemerocallis, called daylilies.
    Anyway, I just visited your tropical garden on your other blog and those flowers were so beautiful and exotic to me.

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  3. Flower AlleyFebruary 17, 2016 at 10:32 PM

    What is the plant with the purple blooms? Second from the last.

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    1. AndreaFebruary 18, 2016 at 11:27 AM

      I have said in my introduction that these plants are alien to me because they are in NZ which is a temperate country. I am only familiar with tropical plants, because i am from the tropics. If i put caption, then i know it, if not then i don't know its ID. Thanks for the visit anyway.

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  4. Caroline GillFebruary 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM

    Lovely to find a comment from you today, Andrea, on my blog! Gazanias are one of my favourite flowers to have in the garden here in the UK in the summer. Amazingly the plants lasted pretty well over the winter, but a late frost finally made the stems wilt. I read yesterday of a group of Harlequin Ladybirds waking up from their winter sleep: I wonder when I will see my first 2016 ladybird!

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    1. AndreaFebruary 20, 2016 at 8:34 AM

      Unfortunately, i have not been seeing them in my garden, maybe because i am not looking for them. I have very less time at home and most of them are devoted to hoyas, just stayed there for 2 weeks because i had to breath fresh air after being hospitalized for allergic asthma.

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  5. doodles n daydreamsFebruary 20, 2016 at 3:04 PM

    I enjoyed your flower shots, they are lovely.

    Diana

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    1. AndreaFebruary 22, 2016 at 9:32 AM

      Thanks Diana for dropping by, i was able to see your posts about NZ too.

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  6. Stewart MFebruary 21, 2016 at 6:08 PM

    What a great set of pictures - there are some many ways to be a flower.

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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    1. AndreaFebruary 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM

      haha i love that Stewart, "many ways to be a flower".

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  7. DonnaFebruary 22, 2016 at 4:26 AM

    Fabulous flowers!

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