A couple of my spring poppies, which are in pots onmy deck.
Like a mother watching her child....
This is a New Zealand native tree, the lovely kowhai (Sophora microphylla) which is our national flower. This small leaved variety is perfect for city gardens. (Read more
here if you're interested). It attracts native birds who feed off the nectar in the flowers. We don't get many tui or bellbirds where I live, so the birds I usually see are
these - this article (obviously written by an Australian) calls them silver eyes, but they are normally referred to in New Zealand as white eyes.
A couple of my spring poppies, which are in pots onmy deck.
Like a mother watching her child....
This is a New Zealand native tree, the lovely kowhai (Sophora microphylla) which is our national flower. This small leaved variety is perfect for city gardens. (Read more here if you're interested). It attracts native birds who feed off the nectar in the flowers. We don't get many tui or bellbirds where I live, so the birds I usually see are these - this article (obviously written by an Australian) calls them silver eyes, but they are normally referred to in New Zealand as white eyes.
5 comments:
Love your white poppy. I have had only 1 white so far, not as double looking as yours. That looks a healthy Kowhai. We have the tuis and bellbirds but in other trees . The tuis get very loud and silly when they over indulge.
What a lovely glimpse of Spring! We are hurtling out of a non existent Summer and into Autumn here. Thank you for sunny colours.
I've never seen a white poppy before...how beautiful!
Beautiful poppies (I live poppies of all colours) and a gorgeous kowhai. By the way, I've always known them as waxeyes but have heard them called silvereyes here as well, but not whiteeyes!
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