Today the Otago Daily Times had a small article titled Golden face of spring about Aurinia saxatilis growing in the rock garden at Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand. You can’t miss the bright gold blobs of colour scattered about! We’ve been photographing the Aurinia recently so the article prompted me to show some of the photos.
Aurinia saxatilis aka “basket of gold”, “yellow alyssum”. Brassica family.
Yellow alyssum growing in a gully area of the rock garden, Dunedin Botanic Garden, 08 Oct 2017.
Bright gold blob of yellow alyssum in the rock garden, Dunedin Botanic Garden, 24 Oct 2017.
Different shapes, forms and colours including yellow alyssum, Dunedin Botanic Garden, 08 Oct 2017. The other flowers just left of centre are shown below:
Lovely bright flowers!
Dense patch of yellow alyssum, Larnach Castle Garden, Dunedin, 22 Oct 2017. Credit: Nigel
Other bright yellow flowers…
Golden achillea flowers, Dunedin Botanic Garden, 24 Oct 2017
Yellow tree peony. Dunedin Botanic Garden, 08 Oct 2017
Crown imperial (Fritillaria imperialis). Dunedin Botanic Garden, 24 Sept 2017
Kerria japonica. Dunedin Botanic Garden, 24 Sept 2017. Credit: Nigel
Text and photos by Exploring Colour (2017) unless otherwise attributed
FOOTNOTE (added 28 Oct 2017):
Photo of Crown imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) in the Clive Lister Garden at Dunedin Botanic Garden. Taken 01 Oct 2017. Showing both yellow- and orange-flowered forms
Exploring Colour 
Lovely colors and shapes.
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Thanks for leaving a comment. I’m so happy you enjoyed seeing these photos!
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A nice study on the variations of the yellow flower, any of which would be pretty to have around your yard! I particularly like the fritalata, such a cool looking plant.
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Thanks Ellen! That plant has an orange flowering form as well, in fact I have a photo from another part of the botanic garden that has both colours in the same photo.
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Ellen, I’ve just added a footnote to the bottom of this post – it has the photo I mentioned to you of the yellow- and orange-flowered forms, both appearing in the same photo. Photo quality not great but it gives the idea!
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Nice! I tried and failed to grow these years ago. I’ve forgotten what went wrong but I didn’t get the perennial success I had hoped for my garden.
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I’d love to try growing them! Maybe next time we own our own garden! The best ones I’ve ever seen grow at a private garden called Maple Glen in Southland, a neighbouring region to ours. I was so amazed when I saw them as I’d never clapped eyes on these incredible flowers before then and they look so regal 🙂
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Lovely collection! Yellow is such a cheerful colour.
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Thank you Helen! I find yellow very cheerful too. When I was a kid I can remember really liking yellow and orange in combination.
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