After a busy week and hot week at work, but I was lucky enough to come across a lot of colourful flowers. When the hot weather makes it hard to work out in the gardens, the colours of any flowers can still put a smile on my face.

These salvia flowers are a fabulous deep purple. I saw them at the botanic gardens in Sydney last week. Add in a little pink of cone flowers in the background and it’s a great combination.

These white cone flowers are also really pretty.

I do love the summer months for the fact that frangipani flowers make an appearance. Here are a few I’ve seen this week.

I wasn’t expecting to see any more hydrangea flowers this week, but here are purple and pink. While the leaves are a bit tatty from the recent heat we have had, the flowers are still purtting on a good show.

This yellow flower comes from Hibbertia scandens which is a scrambling climber from the east coast of Australia. The flowers are a really bright yellow-from a distance (and close up) the flowers look great when there are a lot of them on the one plant.

Crepe myrtles are still flowering really well. These pink ones are my favourites at work-there are plenty of white-flowered ones around too, but I do t like them as much.

Finally for today, this is a Banksia robur, the swamp banksia (read about it https://flat-cap-gardener.com/2025/12/18/swamp-banksia-banksia-robur/). Banksia shrubs and trees are the quintessential Australian plants that I see mainly in the bush but sometimes in street plantings like with this one.

That’s my flowers of the week. Until next time, I wish you happy gardening!