Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas Colour.


This is one of the grafted Eucalypts that we have planted in our garden. It gives a nice splash of seasonal colour with the red and green. This is the first good flush of flowers we've had on this tree, last year the possums nibbled the new buds. One of the parents is E. ficifolia a red flowering Western Australian species and it's grafted on to rootstock of E. phytocarpa which has the common name " Swamp bloodwood" this is able to tolerate our more wet and humid summers. They are not cheap to buy, but certainly worth it for the beautiful colour they bring to the garden, plus they attract the native birds. For any fellow bloggers dropping by we wish you a joyful Christmas and happiness and health for the coming year. God Bless.

6 comments:

Gwen said...

Hi Roy.
Just popped in to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
Great Christmas Colour in your pics
stay well Roy .

TYRA Hallsénius Lindhe said...

Happy New Year Roy, best wishes from Tyra in Vaxholm

Sue Swift said...

Happy New Year Roy. Great to see you're posting again. i love the pic of the two little frogs in the last post!

mightymatt1313 said...

There is red and then there is fantastic red!! You have captured a great manifestation of mother nature!!

Unknown said...

That's such a beautiful flower!
It must be the attraction of your interesting garden, seems like you have a great choice...
Anyway's wish you a very happy Christmas ever...
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Michael said...

Pictures with amazing clarity and very defined, good job thanks, enjoyed it.