May Photo Challenge – May 11

I was feeling much better about my efforts today than I did yesterday.

We planted this, our first hibiscus plant, a year ago this month. It wasn’t much more than a stick with a few leaves when we put it into the ground. But it was flowering even back then. There have been plenty of flower buds over the past year but not too many of them have reached full flower, falling off before they properly opened. I’m hoping this one will hang in there and show it’s fully beauty before dropping off. 

This is the same flower, just a different angle.

Another one of the many buds starting up on this bush. I might keep an eye on this one’s progress as it develops into a proper flower. Hopefully will won’t fall off too soon.

Our hakea laurina tree is absolutely covered with these seed pods. Most of them are looking old and grey but this lot of more brownish ones must be a bit more recent. I took more photos of the same pin-cushion flowers from a couple days ago but it’s quite difficult to get the focus right on them and they had to be binned.

Every autumn/winter, we have a couple of these plants pop up in our front yard. It eventually comes out with one or two pink flowers. I spotted this while revisiting our front yard gazanias and thought it might be interesting to track the progress of its growth. Hopefully the plant will be a bit more visible the next time.