Queenstown Cream

All of these photos were taken by me in Queenstown Gardens on 27 Oct 2018. Most are selected for this post due to their cream or lemon colours – I seemed to have a bunch of photos that fitted this description. There are also many brightly coloured flowers in the gardens but those photos are for a separate post. – Liz

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I was delighted that the lilacs were in flower and hit the jackpot here with a beautiful creamy-white lilac, a mauve and a purple! The low chartreuse mounds are Euphorbias and I’m assuming they’re Euphorbia polychroma. I love their bright colour

When we lived in Queenstown we had Euphorbia polychroma in our own garden

The same creamy-white lilac with a snowy peak in the distance

I think this huge mound of creamy-lemon flowers is a form of Kerria japonica

The whole plant. The flower is similar to a very small rose

Here’s a photo of the sculpture you could see in the last photo. This is “Fleur”

Lastly I want to show you two photos of a native divaricating shrub named Corokia cotoneaster. Its a nondescript grey shrub for most of the year but in spring its beautiful with a profuse display of little starry yellow flowers followed by small red berries

Aren’t they lovely?

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Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2018)