A dark wine-coloured tulip is just starting to unfold its petals. This particular one is from the Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, a gem in the heart of the city.
Category: Plants/Trees
Hibiscus
Should we say ‘a hibiscus‘ or ‘an hibiscus’? Or is either suitable?
Swiss Butterfly
There must be something about the wing designs of butterflies and the plants on which they tend to alight. This Swiss butterfly seems to be in perfect synchronicity with its nectar-bearing perch.
Iris blooms
It’s impossible to fit them all into the photo. These iris blooms along a riverbank in Shizuoka, Japan have been planted and tended by a few local citizens who live nearby.
And they’ve done a pretty good job!
Cherry blossom, wisteria and maple
In the same frame: cherry blossom, tulips, daffodils, snowdrops, and rosemary flowers, along with red momiji (Japanese maple leaves), and, on the left, the wisteria vine starting to bloom. How often do these plants flower at the same time?
Autumn / Fall colors / colours
Bonsai
This miniature tree doesn’t grow like this. It has been carefully tended and cut for many years.
The art of bonsai is a Japanese specialty, and this is the Japanese maple in full leaf.
Giant Redwood / Sequoia Trees
There are tall trees, there are taller trees and there are the tallest trees, and these are the Giant Redwood trees of California, also known as sequoia trees. Some are over 100m in height.
Blue flowers
Even though blue roses are very rare, blue flowers are not so unusual, and these tropical flowers can be found at Kew Gardens in London.
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Buckwheat
Buckwheat can be used to make to make soba noodles in Japanese cuisine. There a very attractive white flowers and these are they.
And below you can get a closer view.
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Sunflower
This is not the famous, and tremendously expensive, painting by van Gogh, known as the Sunflowers. This is the real thing, which is much much cheaper.
Different daffodils
Some people may think that a daffodil is a daffodil, but there are an incredible number of different varieties.
Corpse flower
This is one of the rarest flowers in the world. This one in Tokyo blooms about once every 20 years ,and the flower is about 1.5m tall.
It is known as the corpse flower because it smells like dead flesh.
Spring maple
The season for viewing maple trees is usually the autumn, but this maple tree is full of beautiful red leaves in April.
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