This bearded iris is curious in the way it starts out like an ordinary iris, but as the days go on, flops down and looks for all the world like a Japanese iris.
I can't be sure, but I came up with Judy Mogil as its name after doing some googling. It has irregular light blue streaks and is very pretty both upright and flopped over.
I really wanted to use the same flower in both pics, but had to find another in the garden to properly show its form.
The daylilies are really starting to flower. This one has been putting on a beautiful show.
They have come forward in leaps and bounds from the old yellow ones I remember during my childhood.
I don't know any of their names unfortunately, but they're a good tough plant that doesn't seem to need any attention. In fact some of my plants are planted straight in the ground, no garden beds, I just mow around them.
Some are so perfectly formed and have thick petals as an added bonus. I have seen the petals used in salad and apparently some varieties are tastier than others. One day I'll sample one for fun.
The daylily below at the top left has a gold dust edge which is more apparent in sunshine. I tried to get a close up but nothing beats seeing things in real life.
In the last 7 years or so we have started to get visiting king parrots. Before that we had lots of crimson rosellas and a few of the shy eastern rosella, so the king parrots are still a novelty.
This is King Wally. The locals must feed him because he is very quiet and calls in now and then and not necessarily for food. We know it's him because he usually lands on the spouting and peers over the edge. The others usually feed in the trees and aren't curious like Wally. He called in this morning and was unperturbed at me taking his pic while he perched in the Melia
No comments:
Post a Comment