Blooming Spring

Temperatures are warming and with the odd sprinkling of light rain the garden is showing signs of life and some colour. 

Red Hot Pokers (kniphofia uvaria) - flowers are very attractive to nectar feeding birds

Good old bottle brush - dense clusters of bright red flowers that birds find very attractive as well

Callistemon Wildfire

Golden candles plant (pachystachys lutea) - bright yellow bracts

Petunias

More bottle brush trees - 
Purple Splendour has deep mauve spikes

barrow load of violas

My first hippeastrum of the season - gardens around the area have had them on display for a month or so but mine are late bloomers.

The best part of all the garden are the scents, the sight might not be that spectacular but clustered in one area is the gardenias, the Brunfelsia and a Port Wine magnolia - an amazing fragrance when they are in flower.

 

 The real beauty of brunfelsia is in its sweetly perfumed flowers.  When they first open they are a violet colour, fading to lavender blue and then white, with the three colours present on the bush at the same time.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Brunfelsia latifolia)