Over winter, I forget how busy late spring and summer are at work. This week has been really a really busy one, as we are coming to the last couple of weeks in spring. It is one of my favourite times of year though as there are so many colourful and interesting flowers appearing at work.

These canna lilies have to be my favourite flowers of the week. This is because the orange is so bright and showy. I also love the leaves of this cultivar too-the green, yellow, pink and purple all add something to any garden bed they are in as they are surrounded by the green of other plants and the gray of surrounding roads and buildings.

Murraya flowers don’t look like much, but they have to be one of the most fragrant flowers that I come across frequently. You smell them long before you see them, with whole hedges often covered in these pretty little white flowers. Another benefit is that Murraya flowers are great for attracting bees and butterflies, which is always an added bonus for me.

This rather nice yellow flower is a new one for me this week. Commonly called golden trumpet, Allamanda cathartica is a native of South America. Again, this lovely bright flower is a cheerful addition to any garden.

I also love jacaranda flowers, mainly because of the colour. Spring is when jacaranda trees shine, the rest of the year they are a fairly average looking tree.

Thistles are a bit of a weed here in Sydney. While not common, I see them often enough, but I do have to say that I love their flowers too. They are different to most flowers I see and are also great at attracting bees too, so i do have a bit of a soft spot for them, even if the plant is painful to remove!

Another new one for me and another great orange flower. From what I can tell, it is a cultivar of Hemeroacllis fulva. Daylillies are always great in a garden if you want some colour but don’t have a huge amount of space available.

Gazania flowers are always nice to see. With this one, I like the contrast between the bright yellow of the flower and the grey-green of the leaves.

I love this little collection of bower vine flowers.

Typical of all plants in the Myrtaceae family, these lilly pilly flowers are in possession of showy stamens. These are flowers I’d never seen before moving to Australia, but I have enjoyed seeing them ever since.

It is agapanthus season again. They appear in late spring and early summer in either purple or white-both are great, but I prefer the purple version.

I almost stood on this walking iris (Neomarica gracilis) flower the other day as it was on the floor. Thankfully, I didnt as it is a delightful flower, it’s a shame that the flowers end up near, or on, the floor as I imagine most people miss these little gems!

This is a swamp banksia (Banksia robur) flower. The species is native to the east coast of Australia. Banksias are a tough group of plants that have evolved to deal with the diverse range of tough climatic conditions within Australia, while still looking good doing while doing so.

This pretty little flower belongs to the brush box, Lophostemon confertus. This is another native to the east coast of Australia that is a rather grand looking tree that reaches up to fifteen metres tall.

Finally for today are the flowers of a couple of Dietes species. The white and purple flower belongs to Dietes grandiflora, while the willow ones belong to Dietes bicolour. I do like both flowers, but the white and purple is my favourite.

That is my week in flowers. There are more than I thought this week, but that’s no bad thing-it means my week has been pretty good in some way!