Tulips

Mrs Shaggy's orchids.

a little rain is always appreciated

plumbago ..almost a weed..:0 but oh so delicate and sticky little buggers..

plumbago ..almost a weed..:0 but oh so delicate and sticky little buggers..

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bundycat that is soooooooooooooo good

thanks sometime I think I suprised myself too..might put this one on the wall. in my house ..but then again I can walk in the garden and see it every day ..mm

here is the white version .. they are planted together ..best bit is they do not need much water..

Nice flowers for a weed.

I like the Plumago, nearly always flowering A good shearing once in a while is good! I have never found the white one on Samui...

Different form of Plumeria... pink buds opening to delicate pink flowers... told it's bloomed for three weeks!

^ Beautiful pic SJ

Well today is Mrs Shaggy birthday and so I dedicated these Tulips to her.

Taken with my A6000+ Jena DDR Sonna 135mm.............S/S 1/200,ISO 320,f8?

^ Beautiful pic SJ

Well today is Mrs Shaggy birthday and so I dedicated these Tulips to her.

Taken with my A6000+ Jena DDR Sonna 135mm.............S/S 1/200,ISO 320,f8?

Shaggy you are a wise man. You use your money to buy photo equipment then you can just take photos of flowers for your wife instead of buying the real thing and now you save more money for more photo gear. True photographic wisdom.

It's hard to get fresh "Tulips from Amsterdam" to the Mrs ^^^^

Another type of Plumaria looking nice right now .... It's really amazing how many colour forms there are... but none have the fragrance of the white one!

wow I love frangies too..pity we don't have pic and sniff !!.

The delicate flower of the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)

Setting a bad example here,but I do like Blossom,lets me know the warmer weather is on the way.

Yet another Plumaria, we could almost make a thread on just the different colours of flowers of this plant!

oh no ! more bougies

how many "boogie" faces/shapes can you find in the red bits ?

ok am I hogging ? sorry

Don't know what this is but it is big. Most of these flowers are in front of our genetic modification laboratory.

Don't know what this is but it is big. Most of these flowers are in front of our genetic modification laboratory.

Amaryllis. They are naturally large not genetically engineered to this size.

Canna Indica

Dalia's?

That's Dahlia Shaggy! ^^^

"ditch weeds" I believe Amaryllis, blooming all around Samui now! Same "family" as Tywais's red hybridized one ^^^

Wild & unedible yam flower...it stinks if you sniff it...

Yellow lantanas...

White-yellow-pink lantanas...

When I was a kid in Africa we had hedges of Lantana and my sister and I used to pick the flowers and make 'tea'..... Never drank it of course!

This is one from my garden.

It's called Dalla and I got them from Kow Yiai.

I bought about 10 plants with 3 different colours but this is the only colour that survived.

Every year the 4 plants remaining give me lots of flowers.

When I was a kid in Africa we had hedges of Lantana and my sister and I used to pick the flowers and make 'tea'..... Never drank it of course!

Tolsti...I'm glad you two didn't drink that "tea". You wouldn't be here today.

Lantanas are an old tribal (out here anyway) means of killing rivals...in

a "here, drink this" kinda way. Or the seeds were ground up & put into

food. That nasty stuff said...I have been told down in Malaysia & Indonesia

some "medecine men" use a very weak lantana "tea" to cure stuff like

severe constipation & other intestinal ailments. Hmmmmmm. Plus it's

used in other "tribal cures"...aka folk medecine.

Kinda like eating Fugu in Japan. I ate it once and I'm still alive.That said

I was taken to a famous restaurant in Yokohama that specialises in Fugu

to eat it. However...when it's prepared, one wrong slip of the knife & the

customer will die...after first noticing a slight tingle & then numbness

of the mouth. What actually is Fugu? Puffer Fish.