Winter can be a little dreary, especially when you get days and days of rain. In Tasmania, the sun rises late and sets early, and tracks lower across the sky than in summer. Sunshine is sometimes scarce. But just as winter is really setting in, there are a number of plants that begin to bloom in that sunshine yellow that you really crave on a grey day. The daffodils and jonquils start to pop up, and the masses of wattle brighten up the landscape. Leucadendrons are wonderfully colourful in winter too. Inca Gold are a well known hybrid that have been grown commercially for many years. As the weather gets colder, they get brighter, until the yellow becomes almost creamy. They glow on a grey day, seeming to promise that warmer weather is coming.
These Inca Gold are fabulous in a seasonal bunch. Their colour coincides with the flowering of Safari Sunset which, whilst beautifully rich red at other times of the year, turn pink and cream with central cones covered in yellow pollen. It's such a pretty and cheery midwinter colour combination.
These bunches of mid-winter cheer are off to a local shop, ready to bring some sunshine to someone's grey day!
These Inca Gold are fabulous in a seasonal bunch. Their colour coincides with the flowering of Safari Sunset which, whilst beautifully rich red at other times of the year, turn pink and cream with central cones covered in yellow pollen. It's such a pretty and cheery midwinter colour combination.
These bunches of mid-winter cheer are off to a local shop, ready to bring some sunshine to someone's grey day!
So much beauty! This arrangement in the basket is cheerful and lovely!
ReplyDeleteWe could use some rain now. We are in the midst of hot and often humid summer. Nothing wet at all comes down from the sky here for many months - from May to November, sometimes December we only dream of rain. But we love it anyway! :-)