In Sydney, we are lucky in that we get flowers of one form or another all year round. Here are this week’s flowers.

Indian hawthorn is a fabulous plant-evergreen, pretty flowers, tough and reliable. I usually complain about a plant being used too frequently in gardens, but this is one of the few I don’t mind seeing all the time as it looks good and is easy to care for.

Bougainvillea ‘Temple of Fire’ has flowers that are nicer shade of pink than usual neon pink (although the neon pink ones do look great in the sun). The only benefit of any bougainvillea is that the flowers put on a show, as it’s a nightmare to maintain with the thorns!

I love frangipani flowers, they remind me of holidays in Asia.

The squash plant that I took note of a couple of weeks ago is now flowering. I was, and am, taken with this plant as it is in an ornamental garden rather than in a vegetable garden and I like that idea. Productively can be more than how much veg can be produced!

In the same garden bed, we also have an aloe plant flowering. I didn’t go hunting for the leaves as I was supposed to working, so I can’t tell you what species it is. They are lovely flowers though.

Purple broom (Polygala virgata) is also looking good at the moment. I love purple flowers, and so do bees and butterflies.

While not flowers, leaves can still be interesting, so I’ve included some succulents as well. First up is this kalanchoe. I love the grey leaves and their shape.

Here we have senicio, or Senecio crassissimus. On having done a little research about the plant, I was surprised to read that this is a succulent from the Asteraceae family, which is the daisy family. Again, the leaves are rather interesting. I do like having the odd succulent around, unfortunately this isn’t one of them at the moment.

The final succulent of the day is this crassula with its wavy leaves., which is what I like about this plant.

Finally, this jacaranda tree is looking good. Yes, it is rather cloudy and the purple flowers won’t appear for another three or four months, but they have a nice form if you can let them grow as they naturally should.

Overall, this week has been a good week for interesting (at least to me) plants. The week has also been a busy one, but I prefer that to it being slow and boring.