Natures beauty

[Buddler]

 

[rod58]

FOUR long years ! every year since i planted this Wisteria i've waited with bated breath , cursed it and ..nearly prayed , for it to flower !
SO THIS !

 

[joyknights]

If you are planning to visit the Philippines, I would recommend you to visit this island in Camarines Norte it is called Calaguas. It is not as isolated as Boracay, I've been here last year and the view is breathtaking. You can either rent a wooden cottage or sleep inside a tent.

 

[rod58]

i just love this ! , pride of madeira or Echium candicans .
from the island of Madeira , this plant grows in our very sandy " soils " and without any watering produces these wonderful flowers year after year , tough fuckers !

 

[rod58]

this is as above , "pride of madeira " under magnification .

 

[rod58]

and one of my " clematis " .

 

[rod58]

busy as a bee !

 

[rod58]

lower southwest of western australia , karri trees .

 

[rod58]

our local grevillia ..an amazing flower thats always full of nectar .

 

[rod58]

the west australian kangaroo paw growing on the edge of the road ..

 

[rod58]

it seems that i'm nearly the only one posting here .. i hope i'm not being a serial poster but i just love some of the plants and flowers of the ozzie bush . anyhow .. here's another one .
australian blackboy ..in our poor soils the growth rate is recorded at 1cm per year .. do ya sums !

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[rod58]

hows this little fella ! a western spinebill honeyeater , native to the south western and the south eastern parts of western australia .
this is the male and usually has about 5 or six females with him .

 

[rod58]

first pic is the flower of the bouganvillia vine and then clematis vine .

 

[armedoldhippy]

keep them coming, rod58. beauty does not care who posts it up, and i sure as hell aint gonna complain if they are all yours. my computer crashed, and i have lost 8 years worth of pix until i pay about $800 for computer geeks to extract my data from old drive system. never storing a damn thing on my 'puter again. lesson learned...

 

[Green Squall]

keep them coming, rod58. beauty does not care who posts it up, and i sure as hell aint gonna complain if they are all yours. my computer crashed, and i have lost 8 years worth of pix until i pay about $800 for computer geeks to extract my data from old drive system. never storing a damn thing on my 'puter again. lesson learned...

Ya I've been there. Now all of my pictures are backed up on thumb drives.

 

[Teddybrae]

Bracket Fungi, Baird Creek, Far North Queensland

Bracket Fungi, Baird Creek, Far North Queensland

 

[rod58]

nice part of the world teddy .. in our mid twenties my wife and i had a slate mine further out on the palmer river , loved it there ! .

 

[rod58]

another of my clematis flowers ..dozens of these flowers hang off the vines ..

 

[rod58]

this is my bonsai tree that i grew from a seed 20 years ago this april .
desert ash ,..augustifolia fraxinous ..

 

[rod58]

a close up of some sort of cactus , flowers are pure white and massive