This week has been a calmer week than normal, which has been a blessing. In saying that, I am still happy it is now the start of the weekend! On that note, here are the flowers from my week.

The bird of paradise flower is always one that I enjoy seeing in the garden. I love the bright contrasting colours of blue and orange. I also like the shape of these flowers too, mainly because they are so different to other flowers.

Flowers with strong colours are always a favourite of mine. The red of this geranium is a good colour to have in any garden. Why fade into the background when you look this good?

I wasn’t expecting to see this pink cherry flower this week. I love flowering cherries, for the fact that they are the opposite of flowers like the ones above. They are delicate and more muted in colour and are just as welcome in my garden.

While palm trees are far from my favourite, I do quite like their flowers at the relevant time of year.

I love nasturtiums flowers. I saw this one walking to my car yesterday afternoon. Orange seems to be the colour of the moment!

One of my favourite trees is the broad-leaved paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia,more info here), in part because of the flowers. The bark is also rather interesting.

Agave flower spikes are covered in these little greenish-white flowers. Produced only once in their life, they are rather amazing to look at when they are fully formed.

Azaleas do have very pretty flowers. It’s a shame that in Sydney, they suffer really badly from azalea lace bug. This is mainly because of the warm, humid conditions during the summer.

That’s all for this week.