It’s been another warm and tiring week for me here in Sydney, but there is still time and energy to enjoy the flowers around me as I go about my daily life.

Here are the wonderful orange-red flowers of a Corymbia ficifolia cultivar, found at my local pool. I include them again because of the colour, which I love.

Crepe myrtle trees are still flowering well at work this week. For me, the flowers make it worthwhile planting this tree, along with the attractive bark and the fact that they do very well as street trees here in Sydney. They are very tough trees in my experience and carry on looking great in the heat of summer.

Purple is one of my favourite colours and the flowers of species within the Fabaceae (pea) family are one of my favourite flower types. These lovely flowers are from purple broom (Polygala virgata).

The swamp banksia (Banksia robur) is a lovely shrub native to Australia, that I have written about Here.

Cosmos flowers are always pretty. I found these ones at the local community garden when I walked past earlier this week. I have sown some cosmos seeds over the past week, so I’m hoping to have some of these delightful flowers in my own garden soon too.

Homegrown sweetcorn is one of my favourite things to grow as it tastes so much better than shop bought sweetcorn. Many of the corn plants in my garden now have their tassels on-these contain the pollen that gets blown by the wind onto the silk strands further down the plant (or other corn plants). I can’t wait for my sweetcorn later on this summer as it’s a long time since I’ve grown sweetcorn (but it will stay a regular feature of my garden in the future).

That’s all for my week in flowers. Until next time, happy gardening!