Thursday, June 5, 2014

Yellow Enumeration

I have been telling you a few times, or yes i admit it is nearly complaining, that sometimes i get bored with our orange and red colors. It is not actually the flowers, i must clarify, but the colors! Seeing them all the time somehow saturates our brain, or maybe the emotion through our eyes. So i deliberately chose other colors in one post, now it is the yellow. It is surprizing that we have a lot of them too. These are actually just some of them, i still remember some that are not flowering these days. They might not be exceptionally unique, but putting them in isolation like this, separated from the orange and reds, make them somehow special.

This Hoya buotii has been blooming in our care for two years. It gives a few blooming peduncles, then rest a few weeks and then bloom again. It is a very lovely hoya for me, although it only lasted for 3 days. 

Hoya crassicaulis also produces a very lovely umbel. The individual flowers might not be as big as the Hoya buotii, but the umbel tends to be very full into an almost perfect sphere. Moreover, it gives a very sweet subtle lemony scent that attracts me as well as the bees, ants and moths.

This is a not so open yet cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus

 and who will forget the yellow hibiscus? It has wide blooms as big as a saucer!

 Turnera subulata is almost a fixture now in our gardens. It is hot and drought tolerant, so we always see them around. It competes with the oranges and reds. And if not properly regulated, it tends to be invasive in our area. The seeds are scattered around and wait till the rains come. This will be with us for a long time to give the yellows more prominence.

This might be considered an outlier, exception to the group, but it is wanted around. If only we can multiply them faster, then our scale insect problems will be finished.

 Floral Friday Fotos

11 comments:

  1. I like the yellows! I can see why you would get bored with the same palette after a while. Ours here shifts and changes too fast sometimes. But the opposite would be frustrating, too. I guess that's why travel and indoor plants are so nice!

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    1. You are very right Beth, travels are very much needed. That's why the first time i saw pansies, snowdrops and wisteria in a temperate country i am instantly smitten. And blogging also assuage the frustration of not being able to grow them, thanks to the digital age!

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  2. Wonderful flowers! All these beautiful yellow!

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  3. So lovely! I love these studies in yellow!

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  4. What a wonderful collection of yellow!

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  5. The Hoya in the first photo shows a perfect sphere of quaint succulent flowers. Its lovely except that it only lasted three days. I love that yellow ladybird. I've only seen plain yellow ones in my garden, not this one with a pattern.

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    1. Hahaha, i love your description of the Hoya buotii flowers, quaint, as in charmingly old fashioned. Awesome things are always uncommon, the unique will not be unique anymore if they are commonplace. I thought i've seen the tortoise shell ladybird in your post before!

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  6. Such amazing flowers and lovely colors !

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  7. The Hoya is so beautiful and velvety! Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier:)

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  8. Gorgeous yellow blossoms! I love the pale yellow hoya.

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  9. Great yellow blooms...my yellows are back for summer blooms.

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