Dunedin Blues

Summer delights. Good blues.. happy blues 🙂 From our visit to Dunedin Botanic Garden on 15 January. New Zealand.

Rock Sea Sky

After exploring the east side of the first beach island we skirted around to see what lay beyond. We found another beach island and some fabulous rocks. Ocean View, Dunedin, New Zealand. ~from our short visit yesterday when we stopped on our way home from Dunedin. Click on any photo to enlarge. This is the...

Succulent Lemon Flowers

Here's another succulent plant or ice plant but unlike our native Disphyma austral posted yesterday this is an exotic pest (pretty though). I took these photos at a picnic area near the Roxburgh hydro dam in Central Otago, New Zealand on 16 August 2020. Native to South Africa but now widely distributed! Click on any...

Disphyma australe

This native succulent is found at the coast. I saw it on a cliff above rocks when we took the coast route from Dunedin to Waihola on our way home. We stopped at one of the many beaches, 25 October 2020. New Zealand. Click on any photo to enlarge. Disphyma australe subsp. australesynonym: Mesembryanthemum australeNew...

Bluff Flora Foray

Wandering around in Bluff, it wasn't just the scenery and the buildings that caught our attention. We also found some interesting trees and flowers - native and exotic, garden-worthy and not so garden-worthy. I'll share with you our finds! Bluff, Southland, New Zealand Bluff Flora Foray We came across a tree and shrub planting between...

South African Garden at Dunedin Botanic Garden (NZ)

I'll focus on the part of the South African garden shown in the photo below. (This photo will serve as a reference photo.)  Dunedin, New Zealand. Click photo to enlarge The red blob of colour you can see down the bottom of the path... Erica cerinthoides. Taken 05 Nov 2017 Erica cerinthoides. Taken by Nigel...

Garden Blues

Here are some photos of 'blue' that I've encountered while visiting the Dunedin Botanic Garden and Larnach Castle Garden this year (Dunedin, New Zealand). One plant featured here is native to NZ - the Chatham Island Forget-Me-Not. Lithodora growing in the rock garden, Dunedin Botanic Garden. I glanced across the bridge (below) and saw it...

I see… Red

Some recent posts have grabbed my attention with their lovely red images and it prompted me to put together a "red" post. This first photo which I came across this morning is the one that really galvanised me into action! Its simply magnificent! Thank you very much to contributing photographers! All images used with permission....

Succulents at Larnach, Dunedin, New Zealand

Photos of succulents at Larnach Castle Garden taken August 2017, most Sun 27th. The photo below is a larger size. You can click on it to view more detail: Text and photos by Exploring Colour (2017)

Alice in Singapore Wonderland

This Alice resides in Gardens by the Bay, Singapore. She appeared in my Reader this morning, posted by Joanne Koo on her blog Pot Gardening. Joanne tells me that Alice was bought from Chelsea Flower Show two years ago.

Larnach Castle, South Seas Garden, Dunedin, New Zealand

Part of Larnach Castle South Seas Garden, near Dunedin, New Zealand. From our recent visit. (Mid-winter here in NZ.) I think I can safely say these are a type of aeonium. The purple and green foliage is very attractive. Behind the aeonium is a huge tree stump with a door in it. One of many...

Larnach Castle Garden, South Seas Gazebo area, Dunedin, New Zealand

The South Seas garden area at Larnach Castle is a wonderful place to visit with an extensive display of interesting plants and great views out over the Otago Harbour, Otago Peninsula and Harbour Cone. This post is focused on the Gazebo part of the garden. Visited last Saturday. Gazebo in the South Seas Garden. Photo...