Manuka, tiny white flowers.
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Manuka, tiny white flowers.

Didn’t expect to see Manuka flowers after the heavy frosts we have been experiencing. I climbed up the tree with my macro lens to get a closer look.

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Primrose deep dive.
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Primrose deep dive.

This wee beauty suddenly exploded with flowers. Not clear what is happening in the bullseye from this picture…..

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Texas Bluebells Fusion.
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Texas Bluebells Fusion.

Two flowers for the price of one.

Rocks and flowers grab my attention when football is in the background. I have more success photographing rocks. They last for millions of years, are quite hard and don’t move around unless you are very unlucky. I love flowers,but, don’t look after them properly.

My Texas Bluebell plant lasted only a few days when I forgot to water it.

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I’m a bird, I’m a plane, I’m Epidendrum Pacific Rose
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I’m a bird, I’m a plane, I’m Epidendrum Pacific Rose

If you like orchids. If you like orchids that are neurodiverse. If you like orchids that won’t rot and die. If you like orchids that just keep throwing out flower spikes that deliver for four or five weeks then Epidendrum Pacific Rose is the answer.

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Echinopsis Chamaecerius
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Echinopsis Chamaecerius

The small peanut cactus, centre stage, throws out a huge number of beautiful red blooms. It ran out of steam after a couple of weeks.

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