Flowering Gum (Eucalypt)
Flowers close up.
Flowering Gums come in a range of white, red and pink. This one is in Mogo, on the South Coast of NSW.
A nearby children's playground.
Not a good day for distance shots ....
.... but at least the grass was green.
8 comments:
What a beautiful view and surrounding, Alice. Lovely the children's playground and all the green around you!
Yes, it certainly is nice to see green grass again. Sydney is looking beautiful after all the lovely rain :) I don't care if it rains everyday for the next six months!
I just found your blog! I love the beautiful pictures!! They are wonderful, all the plants and flowers!!
Wow, everything looks so green and lush!
I could have sworn that I commented here.. ahh well - stranger things have happened.
I love the red gum... do you have one in your yard? I am not a eucalypt lover, because of the leaves but the flowers are to die for. A lovely thing I remember from my grandmas was my grandfather would always bring her a bunch of gum tips to put in a vase - lovely, don't you think?
Spring is very pretty where you live!
Robyn - sorry, yes you did leave a comment but when I edited the posting and added some more photos, your comment got lost.
I don't have any flowering gums in the garden, and I do love the red and the pink. When I was a child Mum and I would sometimes walk up to the bushland on our farm and collect a big bunch of gum tips. She would put them in a huge vase in the loungeroom fireplace. I think they helped prevent the flies from coming down the chimney in the summer time.
wow, I didn't know that!! I wonder if it would help to put a bunch at the front & back doors during summer? flies are here with us already - what pests!
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