Helleborus part 1.
Pictures of a fascinating plant.
Helleborus flowers start out in their party best. Once showy blooms are done with pollination, Helleborus does something weird with its petals.
Hyacinth Blue
Distinct bouquets define single malts before taste buds respond warmly to the amber nectar. Drops of nectar dribble down the hyacinth ovary before 84 different aromatic molecules infuse the room with a beautiful musky odour.
Death on the Style.
Sometimes I like to visit the local Palmers Rotorua and buy a plant to look at in detail.
Rainy Day Marigolds.
Deepest reds and brightest yellows.
Trachelium Caeruleum unplugged.
Lake Tikitapu, The Blue Lake
Picture Perfect with a violent past.
Twenty minutes out of Rotorua on the Tarawera road lies picturesque Tikitapu.
Lilies
An explosion of flowers at the top of each stalk
Time of the season; dog days are over.
Just an anemonic monday.
Anemonies have a story
Paku on the Coromandel
Eight million year build.
Anemone in Blue
You can’t miss the spikey mound at the heart of an anemone.