Blossomville

[David Kilpatrick]

Land of the free! Do that in Britain, and you get the conservation police on to you straight away.

Fortunately, there is rarely any need to as bluebells and similar wild flowers invade gardens without being asked - and garden flowers escape into the wild.

David

[01af]

 
On the difference between boys and girls:


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[Dusty]

Land of the free! Do that in Britain, and you get the conservation police on to you straight away.

Fortunately, there is rarely any need to as bluebells and similar wild flowers invade gardens without being asked - and garden flowers escape into the wild.

David

This was on my buddy's property, so I'm just taking his personally owned - albeit naturally grown - flowers. I'm always told to treat it like it's my own. I called to tell him I was going to do it and his response was a "Why do I need to know?"

His valley by the creek is really pretty in the early spring, but timing my trips has become almost impossible ever since I got married. Too many responsibilities now.

Dusty

[aster]

Some 'bluish' to add to Dusty's bluebells and 01af's educative contribution.

Yildiz

The wisterias are in full-bloom covering the periphery wall of the garden at the moment...

[aster]

And of course, the red velvety roses right after today's rain...

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Their pretty Yildiz, sortof orchidy...nice.
Greg

ps. One of the shrubs here suddenly got flowers on it (in Autumn...what the?), it's a plain jane nondescript flower but it releases a large dose of lavender fragrance just on and after dusk, (you can smell it out in the street) thing is I don't know what it is, someone said it was a Franciscia (spelling optional) but however/whatever spelling I search under, I can't seem too find anything on it, I did snap a photo (still in camera) of it after coming home from work, I'll upload it asap Yildiz, you might have some idea what it is...maybe.

This is it.

[aster]

Hi Greg,

I may be wrong but I think that it's a type of 'jasmine'. Jasmines give off their scents late in the evening into late in the night. They have a very tantalizing scent. There are two types that I personally know: The white ones like the one in your garden have scent while the yellow ones look nice yet have no scent at all. We have the yellow one in the garden here.

Or it's a flower called 'Lady of the night', because it starts to smell right after sundown. And I think it's called 'Brunfelsia' aka 'Lady of the night'. The type in your garden looks like to be the one called 'Brunfelsia Americana'. It probably acts like jasmine does, but definitely is a different species. Look at the last two photos that I linked please.

And also take a look at this link which almost has the same shrub as yours:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/85466/

Yildiz

The yellow one: Jasminum nudiflorum



The white, scented one: Jasminum polyanthum



Lady of the night



Brunfelsia or Lady of the night:

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Yildiz I think the 'Brunfelsia' is the one, we have a white/blue near the back fence also, it doesn't seem to perfume as much as the white/yellow one, the new flowers start out white on both and then gradually change colour over the next couple of days before shrivelling and dropping off.
Greg

[aster]

Hi Greg,

That's a good Brunfelsia shrub indeed, rather big and it's a pity if it doesn't have that sweet fragrance the white ones have.
You have some nice species in your estate and the highest wood fence I saw for sometime which is nice. We usually have stone walls and corrugated ironwork for fencing as that's more durable for city life and a necessity for security.

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Yildiz,
Actully it's not really an estate type place, just a suburban qtr. acre allotment (with a big old Queenslander on it), but a perhaps little larger than in some newer subdivisions I see now in parts of the city (developers like to pack em in now), what makes it seem big to me is that it's on a corner, and one does have a lot more territory outside too look after compared to being in the middle of a block with just a frontage, (I've got not only a frontage, but also a sideage too mow water and trim) In the old days they liked wide footpaths and a large nature strip on either side of the road. One benifit of that is, it keeps the cars a good distance away from the houses, not that there is much traffic anyway...here in suburbia
Greg

[aster]

I intentionally used the word 'estate', because small, moderate or large it's yours to do with as you wish, that's what matters.

I truely like Australia in general, eveything about it is still worth investigating with its history, the indigenous people and modern times. Before reading your last post I was reading on Townsville, Queensland, and I think you live in a very nice environment. The Castlehill looks most interesting among the generally flat land and the you definitely have beautiful beaches. City life and natural habitats are blending nicely!

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

They tell/told me (old timers that is) oops, I'm probably an old timer now, that we nearly lost Castle Hill once, the US had a huge presence here in WW II, thankfully, (there are a lot of people who have never forgotten what America did and the sacrifices made, it was them that stopped a large Japanese invasion force just to the north of here, it cost an aircraft carrier, the USS Lexington to do it though) and thought it would be a really good idea to use the hill as a quarry and build a causeway/bridge over to Magnetic Is. (about 5KM of shallow sea, there were gun emplacements over there as well), for some reason it didn't come too pass so it's still there...thankfully, as it's a really good view from up there.
And yes the 'traditional owners' out in the backblocks are basically ok, (some of the town ones tend to be a bit feral) they'd do anything for you if you needed a hand...as long as there was no hurry, time moves very slowly out west, it's the booze etc. that causes so much trouble everywhere.
Drop in any time Yildiz
Regards
Greg

[Birma]

This continues to be a great thread of flowers - I hope I do not take it too off topic but going a bit on the 'wild' side. A couple of blooms from this morning in woodland a few miles out of town.

Bluebell


Wild Garlic


Both taken with the Sigma 70-300, ISO 80, F11

[Greg Beetham]

Your wildflowers are normal/nicer Birma, I like that first one, lovely.......by contrast these are natives from here which are a little weird...sortof.
Greg

[Birma]

Thanks Greg. It is great to see the flowers from your area, both the for the similarities, and the difference / weirdness . The selection you have there all look like types to survive hot, dry summers. Not something their UK relations have to worry about recently , but I realise that you chaps would appreciate a bit more of our rain.