SUNDAY BEST #315 - SUMMER

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We are seeing some hot Summer days lately and the sky turns a brilliant pure blue that highlights the green gold of the eucalypts and the red of the earth. It is fortunate that we are able to live in a place where we can still enjoy the beauty of nature close to a big city, and also more than lucky to live in a country where things are not as bad as what most of the rest of the world is experiencing at the moment. For that I am thankful.

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Last week, An Bui in Vietnam posted some great photos from Da Lat. Please visit his site for more wonderful shots.

 

ROSA 'FRIESIA'

Rosa 'Friesia' (synonyms: 'Sunsprite'; 'KORresia') is a rose variety developed by Reimer Kordes and introduced in 1973. The rose was derived from the cultivars 'Friedrich Wörlein' × 'Spanish Sun', and is one of the most successful floribunda roses. It was named 'Friesia' after the region Frisia (Friesland), the home of the breeder, and was one of the first roses to be given a code name (KORresia for Kordes).

Its sunny yellow blooms are large and flat with 17 to 25 waved petals, reaching an average diameter of 8 cm and have a very strong fragrance. The high-centred flowers appear solitary or in small clusters in a blooming period lasting from June to September. Their bright yellow colour hardly changes with age. The flower is not well suited as a cut flower as it has short stems and only lasts for a short period of time after cutting.

The plant has light-green, glossy leaves, forms upright, bushy shrubs with about 40 to 75 cm height and up to 60 cm width, is very disease resistant and hardy (USDA zone 6b) and can be grown on the ground or in containers. It is used as a parent rose, leading to cultivars such as Rosa 'Sun Flare' (Warriner 1981) and 'Morden Sunrise' (Davidson & Collicutt) 1991.

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SUNDAY BEST #314 - WALKER

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Last week, Lydia in Sydney posted some lovely photos of reflections in a lake, of which this one below was my fave. Please visit her blog to see more.

FLOWERING GUMTREE

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SUNDAY BEST #313 - IN THE DESERT

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South Australia outback near the Flinders Ranges.

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Last week, Jim in Sydney posted this striking image. Please visit his blog for more great photos.

CALIFORNIAN POPPY

An American wildflower, hybridised and now possessing a pink flower (rather than the wild bright warm yellow). Some alyssum in the background.

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SUNDAY BEST #312 - MOON SONG

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

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Last week, Linda in Virginia posted some lovely photos of the wintry countryside in her part of the world. Please visit her blog for more wonderful images.

AGAPANTHUS

Agapanthus is the only genus in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae. The family is in the monocot order Asparagales. The name is derived from scientific Greek: αγάπη (agape) = love, άνθος (anthos) = flower. Some species of Agapanthus are commonly known as lily of the Nile (or African lily in the UK), although they are not lilies and all of the species are native to Southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique) though some have become naturalised in scattered places around the world (Australia, Great Britain, Mexico, Ethiopia, Jamaica, etc.). 

Species boundaries are not clear in the genus, and in spite of having been intensively studied, the number of species recognised by different authorities varies from 6 to 10. The type species for the genus is Agapanthus africanus shown here. A great many hybrids and cultivars have been produced and they are cultivated throughout warm areas of the world.

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