AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Flower For All Seasons


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A flower that blooms in my Dromana Hills garden all year round and always looks beautiful!
This is commonly known as a native hibiscus.
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Macro Flowers Saturday #23
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Like a happy plant
Pleased to live in sun and rain
Life for all seasons
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Hosted by Maia T (Romania) at Macro Flower Pictures

11 comments:

Lui said...

Lovely color!

Maia T said...

The flower is very beautiful, it looks like our hibiscus bush but the leaves are different.
Lovely macro in beautiful light.

Tara said...

The hibiscus - so simple yet speaks of sweetness.

maryt/theteach said...

A real beauty, Gemma! :)

Kim, USA said...

Hibiscus is very pretty tried to plant it here in MI but it didn't last long. Happy weekend!

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Ann, Chen Jie Xue 陈洁雪 said...

Yes, I saw lots of hibscus in Australia.

My plant right outside my window is hibernating, there are not flowers. The colour is the same as your photo.

Is the weather cold where you are? My sis in Brisbane says it is raining heavily there.

Al said...

Hibiscus is one of my favorite flower they never stop blooming, if one is withered another one will bloom. How nice.

Roan said...

Hibiscus is one of my favorite summer flowers. Here they are commonly called Rose of Sharon. They seem to never stop blooming. Love the color of this one.

Janneke said...

This is one off my favorite flowers, love this color.
Great photo!

Janneke X

Judy said...

Nothing common about hibiscus in this part of the world! They have been blooming here for a week or so...

Rosie Nixon Fluerty said...

thats beautiful to have growing in your garden

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