Saturday, January 7, 2012

Splashes of colour in the rainforest garden

These shots were taken this afternoon in what we call the 'rainforest garden' which I established in the first couple of months of moving in, and have added to it, from time to time. Looking from the outside, it looks for the most part, to be various shades of green. But if you move beyond the edge and into the garden itself, you find all sorts of beautiful flowers, such as this ginger.
and these gingers...
and yet more fabulous gingers
not quite a ginger, but close, a galangal flower, its creamy white flowers smelling exquisitely of some sweet evening in Thailand or Bali....
and not even close to a ginger, the flowering bract of a stream lilly.