Some more flowers on remembrance day Nov. 11 2022
after it rained overnight.
Lest we forget.
I took these only 20 minutes ago.

Thanks Bobby.
I took a native flower piccie today. How do I post it here?

We have a pollen problem in Melbourne now.
There are fears of thunderstorm asthma.
The weeds are growing fast and now they're flowering.
The grass curbs and other areas are overgrown with weeds.
They are still pretty flowers:

The humble daisy - flat weeds growing like crazy everywhere:



Blackberries are growing like a super weed - but I love eating them:


This flower is unidentified on a tree.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 5:14am:


Thanks, I'll get onto it.
may take a few days

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1593303377

Monk posted 2 flower pictures that are worthy of my MRB:

Bobby. wrote on Nov 18^th, 2022 at 8:25pm:


Nice 😎

Bobby this topic is a breath of fresh air. As an avid gardener I'm loving 🥰 it.

Got a question for you though : WHEN do Mother's Day flowers bloom? Let's be more specific  ... when do they bloom in Sydney Australia?

(I'm currently looking at the date AND my Mother's Day flowers which are happily blooming away in one of my garden beds.)

Bobby. wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 12:26pm:


I'll go and take a pic of some of our Mother's Day flowers (my favourite are the deep blood red ones). Before I do so ... I'll write up a note with today's date/time and I'll dedicate the shot to you. Ok Bobby?

Edit : Actually ... I'll even take a shot of one of my 4 choko vines. Yep...we've got chokos growing. EVERYWHERE! They've taken over adjoining neighbourhood yards too 🥺

In fact I reckon I'll start HARVESTING chokos BEFORE December <--- that's when I normally start looking around for an over ripe choko to PLANT. Not this year....here we are staring at chokos and Mother's Day flowers happily growing away in our own garden. In November. 😳

Bobby. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2022 at 10:37am:


It doesn't look real. By that I mean it looks too amazingly perfect.

Love it!

Hey .... guess my favourite tree! Hint : It starts with J.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 19^th, 2022 at 11:04am:


Wow!

And YESSSSSS!

I LOVE Jacaranda trees ESPECIALLY when their gorgeous purple flowers spray everywhere across lawns. The resultant look is so soft and romantic. Just beautiful!

I got 2 more today that were worth posting:

Lisa Jones wrote on Nov 19^th, 2022 at 9:20pm:



No worries,
thanks Lisa.

Lisa Jones wrote on Nov 19^th, 2022 at 9:31pm:



Thanks Lisa,
all the pics are taken with a low priced mobile phone.
No $1,000 mobiles needed.
You don't need an expensive mobile or a DSLR camera to take nice photos -
especially at the small size of 700 pixels wide.
With mine I do have to tell it what to focus on -
just by pressing on the screen the center of the flower of interest.
It's that easy.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 19^th, 2022 at 10:23pm:


Good on you Sprint! I now love coming to OzPol BECAUSE of this sub forum (and in particular this topic).

Re gardening and flowers etc ... I've been up since 6 am watering away and plugging in my early morning chores. I'm now at the stage where I've showered, dressed, had my morning coffee, sorted out the family ( they're showered, breakfasted and off with Dad to visit their cousins this morning )  and I've got washing machine load no 2 going.

That means I'm ready to get out there with this iPhone and start taking snaps. Let me prep a Good Morning OzPol by Lisa Jones dated 20 Nov first.

Edit : Damn these bloody strong winds...our usual Sunday midday bbq is definitely not happening today 🥺☹️😐

Just took this shot .... bloody windy here this morning ☹️

Here is another one Bobby. Too windy here and I'm holding my shout out card for dear life ☹️

Now ....THIS is just an example of what typically happens to me when I bury vege scraps. I end up with way too much in the way of whatever it is I've buried. In this case it's tomatoes and I start giving them away in large pots. I need to transplant these into pots and give these to others as I've already planted 20 tomato plants here sigh.

Not a good shot as it's terribly windy but I will come back to this area of my garden AFTER the wind goes away.

This snap captures 3 different plants growing together.

My purple coloured hydrangeas (my fav flowers are hydrangeas and I now have every colour 😎).

If you know your vines then you will be able to differentiate btwn the grape vine and the choko vine. These are growing around the hydrangea.

Note : all the above plants I propagated/planted myself.

I no longer buy plants from Bunnings...not even seedlings 🌱

Once this wind goes away I'll take snaps of my "laboratory" ie where I muck around with transplanting and propagating plants.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 20^th, 2022 at 10:46am:


Yep! We've been eating home grown tomatoes all November.

It's not my work. It's the wonder of God's workmanship Bobby.

And right now I'm hoping God takes that awful wind away as I've got these little chokos (which I hope don't fly away) 🥺

Lisa Jones wrote on Nov 20^th, 2022 at 10:58am:



OK but do you have your mobile phone set to take only tiny pictures?

Sprintcyclist wrote on Nov 20^th, 2022 at 1:17pm:



Sure you can but maybe it's worthwhile for
you to learn how to resize and post a picture?
It's really very easy.

Lovely.

Flowers are really good to grow.
They take almost 0 nutrients from the soil

Bobby. wrote on Dec 4^th, 2022 at 7:38pm:


And the butterflies, birds, many insects.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 12:26pm:


Ok! I just found this thread about flowers 

I went to fill up bin as it has to be put out tonight for morning collection… now we’ve had 2 hot days in Melbourne… and today (Monday) it is quite cool and raining now…I saw the flowers covered in droplets of rain and took a pic just now to put up in here.
PS…. Bobby I know you’ve told me before about resizing but can you put it in step by step how to please 


I added width=506 height=676 into the link

That imgbb site wanted my credit card… it’s not free?
I will have to find a way to resize from my phone. I will see what apps I can get.
The Imgur one is okay and used to have resize capabilities but not quite so lately.

In the apps they want .99c
In your link they say free but want all my credit card details,
I’m not giving it.
Will find another app

Some stuffing around with different apps to resize and save then upload and put on here. I would love to put up more flower photos I’ve taken recently … let’s see if all that effort worked out for sizing ….


Anyway…. Kangaroo Paw

I have a Triffid in my yard.
It's on a leash.
But I've got to be careful when I water it.

Jasin wrote on Dec 5^th, 2022 at 8:41pm:


That reminded me of something! A house we had up in Hervey Bay once… has these weird growing crawling vine type plants… reaching up to second floor and no matter how much we trimmed it back (and there were fast invisible biting things living amidst it!!!)
It kept growing and one day… when daughter went up there and took a photo of these weird plants going over the rail and into the veranda towards the house!
It freaked me out and I said… it’s like that movie the day of the triffids!
She didn’t know about it and I explained.
She thought it looked cool.
I was so annoyed at this taker over that it took several attempts by hubby’s chain saw to rid of it.
Was still growing and surviving from the stumps in the ground.
Well there was more effort to stop it.
Finally we did it, so triffids they were! 
Daughter visiting after work tomorrow and I will ask if she can locate that photo!

Sophia wrote on Dec 5^th, 2022 at 9:19pm:



Wow.

An app called google lens can help identify plants.
I was recommended it, it works pretty well

https://lens.google/

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 9:14am:


maybe a Phalaenopsis.
Moth orchid

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 9:14am:


How beautiful they are!!! I want some!

Bobby. wrote on Dec 5^th, 2022 at 9:03pm:

Damn thing took a swipe at me today.
I guess it didn't like the stray cat I fed it last night.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 9:14am:

Now that's a beauty.

Jasin wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 1:46pm:


Triffids have a sensitive diet

Jasin wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 2:19pm:


Better than a watch dog!

Nice photo.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 9:14am:


Alright - I've had this photo checked by an orchid expert.
He says that yes - it's an orchid but the color is suspect -
it has either had Aqua color dye added to the plant's water
or it has been photo-shopped to give it the Aqua color.

The expert is right - this is how they dye Orchids:

DIY Blue Orchid - How blue Phalaenopsis Orchids are made.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 8:54pm:


Nice bee in it too.
Plant is possibly a Stachys.

I never heard of it before

Sprintcyclist wrote on Dec 6^th, 2022 at 10:26pm:




It's a Lamb's-Ear.

Stachys byzantina


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_byzantina

Jasin wrote on Dec 7^th, 2022 at 8:27am:



But it's cheating.  LOL

I found a new flower today.
I think it's a Wild Iris.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 7^th, 2022 at 6:35pm:


noice

Melbourne is truly the garden state.
Took some more flower photos while it was raining.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 8^th, 2022 at 8:59am:


I love this one!

Sophia wrote on Dec 12^th, 2022 at 12:50am:



Yes it looks almost too good to be real?

Frank wrote on Dec 12^th, 2022 at 7:52am:



Wow - I thought you were joking but they are real:   

https://orchideria.com/dracula-orchids/

Nice moon pic Soph.

Frank wrote on Dec 12^th, 2022 at 7:52am:


OMG that’s so weird! But hilarious! Imagine giving a bunch of monkey faced flowers to anyone! 

Some beautiful flowers taken a few days ago in Melbourne: