Above: Rose and church from Billy Goat Lookout, about a kilometre's walk from the cottage where we spent a weekend in Clare in March. Below: White Rabbit in Mintaro Maze - scene of an infamous Annual Easter Egg Hunt.
For the first time, we've had some success with an orchid! This happy little Dendrobium Orchid lives under our front pergola out of direct sun (it hit 42'C today). The shot below is a macro.
Since making this house our new abode the women have been planting out the little stip of dirt by the pool with flowers. Fully grown, they should be quite spectacular.
I don't know if this pink flower is actually a hibiscus. I suspect not. It grows on a largish bush (smallish tree) just out our backdoor.
This red hibiscus has featured on this blog before. This photo's a bit more evenly exposed. This grows on a creeper over the fence by the pool.
This is the view from our front 'lawn' patch, over the courtyard's ivy covered wall, to the next door neighbors' jacaranda. They are the trees the council used as street trees in our street. Different streets around here feature patches of different types of tree. It's kind of nice to have jacarandas around, although none are as impressive as the one that loomed over the fence at our last place (click here to see a winter view of it).
The above photo is taken from a roundabout in the middle of the road. Off to the side was this rose garden. Adelaide is a great place for roses, and even sponsors a major 'Rose Festival' each year. Given the opportunity, and the drought permitting, I hope to feature some of our rosey vistas in future on this site.
...looking, as they do, over our pool.
This picture was taken three weeks earlier, and shows them about to bloom.
Many of Adelaide's suburban streets feature Bottlebrush trees. They have amazing red flowers. This closeup was taken on the next street, one block from home.
These beautiful Hakea (?) flowers catch my eye every time I walk past them, in a frontyard about two blocks downhill from our home. They've been in bloom for nearly two months. Past their peak now, this photo was taken in their glory days.
This photo is better lit, but is a little more raggedy as a flower...
Macro...
Macro
