Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand
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Hebe, in reply to
Some sort of hydrangea? The stamen are unusual. Where did you find it?
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The flowers are on quite a big tree, looks like they brown fairly fast as there are other clusters that are quite brown. Didn’t take a pic of the tree itself, but here are a couple of others, you can see the large leathery leaves….
should get my plant book out I guess.... -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Unknown flower
whirling dervishes?
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JacksonP, in reply to
should get my plant book out I guess….
As you may notice, I have consulted the twitterverse. Opinions thus far vary. ;-)
whirling dervishes
I'd go with that.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
As you may notice, I have consulted the twitterverse
I’m not on the twitter-verse, what are the opinions so far (apart from whirling dervishes which will be the default name if all else fails.) ?
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Hebe,
If it is a tree, it is def not a rarity hydrangea! Probably would help to see the leaves clearly and a pic of the tree. I'll go with dervish.
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JacksonP, in reply to
I’m not on the twitter-verse, what are the opinions so far
Dombeya was one possibility.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Some sort of hydrangea?
obviously not a Lone Hydrangea,
perhaps a Jekyll & Hydrangea?The stamen are unusual.
well, the starmen are waiting in the sky...
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Hebe, in reply to
What can I say to that! You've blown my mind.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Dombeya was one possibility.
Thanks for that, Dombeya it is! Now I see it is also called ‘Tropical Hydrangea’, so there you go, everyone gets a part of the prize : ) Although there is something wrong with the information on the internet… they don’t seem to have picked up on the Whirling Dervish / Starman connection!
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Dombeya it is!
Possibly Dombeya Tiliacea (over 200 species) commonly known as the Cape wedding flower. Fast growing up to about 8 m tall, flowering late winter to early spring. Predominantly from Madagascar.
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Several months ago I posted a photo of tiny little frogs that had grown from tadpoles I released into my goldfish pond last December. I assumed they had become part of the food cycle over winter but so excited to see one today much bigger and basking on a sunny waterlily pad. Disappeared before I could get the camera. Think its a green and gold bell frog. Bright emerald green with gold stripes. Very pretty.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Cool :)
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Islander, in reply to
Yup - sounds like a golden bellfrog (one of 3 species of introduced treefrogs.) Males can make 'a tinkling sound', as well as croaking - hence the name.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Thanks Hilary, I remember those frogs pics, great to hear they're still on deck. NZ seems to have become the de facto stronghold for litorea aurea since it went into drastic decline in its native SE Australia. In the early 70s they could be seen in great numbers in reptile enclosures at Taronga Zoo, presumably placed there as a food supply. In recent years the Zoo has been fighting a losing battle to re-establish wild populations.
BTW the Wikipedia distribution map for NZ looks a bit off to me, as they're still pretty common in the lower North Island.
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Islander, in reply to
<q>TW the Wikipedia distribution map for NZ looks a bit off to me, as they’re still pretty common in the lower North Island.
Actually, they are the commonest frog *in ANZ* - found throughout most congenial environments throughout the south (including Big O. Where we also have the brown whistling treefrog - poured down a drain in Hokitika by an Aussie goldminer & spread through the south ever since.)
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No frogs here, and only brown whistling crickets in the bushes : )
California poppy
Calendula – not a repeat, honest… just love those tidy disc florets in the center there.
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Hebe, in reply to
That poppy is a wonderful picture Nora. It sings. If you don't mind it will be my desktop background.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
If you don’t mind it will be my desktop background.
Very happy for it to sing to you from your desktop : )
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
I just bought 6 tadpoles from the local Animates store last December. Forgot to ask where they came from. Everyone, including the man in the shop, told me they had no chance of surviving in a pond with 30+ assorted goldfish (the biggest about 20 cms long). So the fact that two turned into frogs and one at least has survived a year is pretty amazing. But it is a pretty wild pond and the frog(s) have found a safer spot at one end among the weed, waterlilies and purple water irises.
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California inside
Botheration daisy shake
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Hebe, in reply to
Botheration daisy shake
Bloody hell Nora that's good.
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Hebe, in reply to
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These are my flowers, and in my defence, the grass is long so surely that denotes Spring?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
floribundant imaginings…
California inside
Botheration daisy shakeThese are great!
What other tracks are on this album?
I think I used to own it…That first one has to be Georgia O’Keeffe
artwork – covering the Mamas and the Papas
and that psychedelic shake-kaleidoscope
has gotta be Country Joe and the Fish…
(or was it Tech Pistil & the Flaming Stamen?)I love the shapes they throw…
When will we be able to
grow our own architecture?
Something we can dance to…
or maybe we already do know how to do it,
but ya just can’t do it in cities / hives
and ya can’t get hung up on permanence…With an ululation of elation
the meme screams away…
look for the new series: Nomad Men!
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