At the end of another busy week, here are my plant highlights of the week. This week, the weather has been sunny, with temperatures starting to rise now that we are coming into spring-which is rather nice!

I found a rather nice little grevillea yesterday. This is a ground cover grevillea, so doesn’t grow very tall, but size doesn’t always mean much! I think that this is Grevillea ‘Canterbury Gold’, after having a look around the internet and a book or two! Reading about new plants is something that I do enjoy doing when I have the spare time.

Late winter and early spring are great for flowers on Prunus trees. This pink flowered on is Prunus persica, or flowering peach. They are a sign that spring is really on the way.

Another lovely tree flowering now is this white flowered Pyrus calleryana, or the Bradford pear. There were so many bees around this avenue of trees which I always enjoy watching if I can.

The way that fern fronds open up is always fascinating to me. The way they slowly unfurl into often large fronds is unlike other sort of leaf. These two fronds are just starting to unfurl.

Another native plant today, this time a banksia with red-orange flowers. I think it’s Banksia ericifolia, or heath banksia. The flowers on these trees were looking so red in the light yesterday, I got a little confused by what species they belong to. Half an hour of moving around the internet and I think I’ve got it right. Either way, it’s a banksia with great looking flowers!

This totally over-the-top showy purple flower belongs to Pride of Madeira, or Echium candicans. These plants can become rather large over time, but I think they are worth it for the flowers alone.

While the leaves below are not flowers, they are rather colourful. The new growth belongs to the fried egg plant, or Gordonia axillaris.

Finally today is this delightful bromeliad, known as the imperial bromeliad, or Alcanterea imperialis. I like the colour of these bromeliads-the green and red-purple is a really nice colour combination.

That’s it for the plants that caught my eye this week.