Flowers!

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A few Canadian wild blossoms

The first one is Gorse.... an import from UK as with the yellow Broom, which has taken over much worse... .... in a few areas of the "wet coast".... I used to spend many hours with a friend, trying to clear near Botanical Beach

The other two, I don't recognize .... (memory fading) ......... we'd better be careful, these are not Thai flowers!.... eh!

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down on the beach walk this morning!

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OK not real, but they look pretty!

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Since I managed to kill off all my wife's flowers while she was out of town on an extended trip she has started from scratch. Note to self: "They need water".

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Queen Sirikit centre, Chiang mai.

Regards.

[samuijimmy 28,158]

Bed of roses! (Samui)

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Got lots of these images... so many different varieties up there.

at Suan Suwaree - The Rose Gardens of Bhubing Palace, Chiang Mai

[samuijimmy 28,158]

Got lots of these images... so many different varieties up there.

at Suan Suwaree - The Rose Gardens of Bhubing Palace, Chiang Mai

Very nice, I am outta likes for today! So keep the bloomin roses coming !

You guys in the north can grow roses so much better than down here in the south... the red ones I pictured above are the only variety that does reasonable well here at sea level!... but it's a variety I never seem to be able to find in the garden shops!

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...keep the bloomin roses coming !

yep Jim.. the Roses seem to do very well at higher altitudes. This one with its central flower & 3 surrounding buds is apparently a prize bred variety.... Doh! the name evades me.

Rose Gardens of Bhubing Palace, Chiang Mai

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Here is one red one, I had a few years ago, out of a dozen or so different roses I have purchased here... only one has survived .... it's a wishy washy pink!

Here is one growing at a higher elevation here on Samui,(new Lamai Temple) the slightly more cooler temps up there, do make a difference!

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Not sure if this qualifies as a flower or a creepy crawly...

P7180057 by pattayadays.com, on Flickr

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In the wildest part of a botanical garden I was looking around in today.

Quite a lot of them around, grow on a shrub about 2 m tall.

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In the wildest part of a botanical garden I was looking around in today.

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Quite a lot of them around, grow on a shrub about 2 m tall.

I've always thought that flower above looks quite attractive, Robby, one sees it growing wild around Samui, but when suggesting to my Thai neighbours, that it would look nice in the garden they always say no! .... Perhaps too much of a weed?

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All the others that I could see on the tree were plain red.

But I liked this one best.

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Here is an unusual flower / plant found on Samui today.... anyone any idea of what it might be?

Potted...

Inside.... I am wondering if it will smell like rotted meat this evening....

The finder... one thing I know he will do his best to look after it!