This week we are at Burnbrae garden. For years I got annoyed with the dogwood on the southern side. Each spring I looked for lovely pink flowers like the one up the road. No flowers appeared. Then one year I chanced to look out the window near Christmas time and to my surprise I found it displaying lovely white star like flowers - I had been looking for the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Other things happening at Burnbrae include the bottlebrush flowering OK for the first time since I pruned it when the shrub nearly died.
And the very insignificant flowers of the port wine magnolia pushing out their scent to welcome us home - it is a strong bubble gum type scent that can be smelt a long way from the tree in the afternoon and evening, not much perfume in the morning at all.
Well, in honour of my Uncle I sure would love to have a port wine magnolia here! What a sweet coincidence this is!
ReplyDeleteI love the raindrops on the leaves, too. Beautiful.
I wonder why is is called Port Wine magnolia?
DeleteThe dogwood blossom looks smaller but very similar to those we have here.
ReplyDeleteIt is just like the ones in America. It is not a native Australian plant and I have seen ones such as these in America, maybe Yosemite, my memory is failing me.
DeleteI simply love the port wine magnolia. I think there are some beautiful ones in our Queens Park near the CBD. Such a beautiful scent.
ReplyDeleteThey are the type of plant I would expect to see in a park like that. Old ones (like ours) are a beautiful tree with lovely glossy evergreen leaves so look great all year round.
DeleteWe have a Port Wine Magnolia tree, which we planted a few years' ago, but it has no scent. Or, if it has, I can't smell it! We also have several Bottlebrushes and Grevilleas which attract the native birds (mostly Wattlebirds). I haven't seen a native Frangipani, but we do have the ordinary Frangipani (growing in a pot) which I struck from a cutting.
ReplyDeleteThey are night scented so try sniffing around at nighttime. I doubt an ordinary Frangipani would survive in Lawson, you are further down and hence warmer. I love them.
DeleteThe port wine magnolia flowers are so different from the huge blooms on the Southern magnolia I posted a few days ago. Sounds as if they are just as perfumed though. The colour is the same as port wine ✨
ReplyDeleteYes these blooms are so itsy bitsy you would miss them except for their powerful fragrance.
DeleteThe dogwood bloom does draw my eye.
ReplyDeleteI am now wondering if you get dogwoods in your forests in Canada.
DeleteI love that all your lovely blossoms have been blessed with beautiful raindrops.
ReplyDeleteWe have been having good rainfall in the mountains over the past few weeks and some rainfall at Kandos as well.
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