Spring in Queensland

[ozjohn]

Poinciania time. Trees just coming into bloom and an eastern water dragon a common harmless lizard in SE Queensland. Grows to about 2 ft in length.

[ozjohn]

PS the tree in the foreground is a jacaranda from South America.

[HistoricCoinage]

Just back from WA, the jacarandas are absolutely spectacular this time of year!

[Paddy]

I think this is one too. This one in Hong Kong and taken in 1986. The building is the Officer's mess of the Queens Gurkha Engineers - I suspect long since demolished by the new Chinese regime.

[blakeyboy]

This is what my garden looks like in the cold and damp!!

Cycad, Musa, Echium, Canna, Hedychium all wrapped up.

Soil heaters in the pots if it gets very cold.

I fit a translucent tarp across the veranda, and we get a small room full of plants to play cards in in the winter!

Lemon/lime cross full of fruit this year- gonna do some lime pickle....!!

 

[blakeyboy]

From the other direction

Turmeric, Delonix regia ( from old seeds from John), delicate hibiscus etc.

I got fed up with my dark garden so I've done something about it!!

[blakeyboy]

17 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

From the other direction

Turmeric, Delonix regia ( from old seeds from John), delicate hibiscus etc.

I got fed up with my dark garden so I've done something about it!!

..and in the top pic you can just make out the yellowing fronds of a very old, very small jacaranda.

Like most tropical flowering trees, they should only be grown for their lovely foliage here in the UK- they just will not flower in a pot.

In the spring I am going to plant a Caesalpinia Gilliesii and a Citrus Australasica outside,

against the shiny fence in the sheltered corner, where I can give them their own little greenhouse for the winter.

[blakeyboy]

I wonder if there is, by the slimmest of chances, anyone on this forum who knows where Citrus Australasica, the 'finger lime' or 'caviar lime' is a native species?

I wonder.....!