Jimmy Turner

The gorgeous and relatively unusual pink flushed Rhododendron sino nuttallii. Those flowers are very fragrant and measure 13cm across. Strong enough scent to smell from a few metres away at times.

22.11.2024 21:06 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Higo iris in the meadow down by our stream. Every year they flower and every year, they make my heart sing.

27.11.2024 20:37 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A liverwort with gemma cups ressembling eyes and mouth

Liverworts with gemma cups ressembling eyes and mouth

Plant pareidolia: It’s hard to take liverworts seriously when they look like this 🧪🍀.

17.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 453    🔁 72    💬 10    📌 6

The Striped Sun #Orchid (Thelymitra pulchella)
#Orchidaceae is native to #NewZealand. These can have up to fourteen blue, pink or white flowers on stems up to 800 mm (30 in) tall. The petals, & sometimes also the sepals have dark blue stripes. #NZFlora

28.12.2023 20:17 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently Violas grow really well here in #NewZealand. This seed grown one hasn't stopped looking like this for months. #Flowers #Gardening #NZGarden

23.12.2023 19:12 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently #Hippeastrum (commmonly called #Amaryllis) grows really well in the North Island of #NewZealand. These natives of S America are perennials here. These are growing in a hell strip in front of a hotel. #Bulbs #Flowers #Garden

18.12.2023 20:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fluffy balls of cream to silver moss growing amount ferns and rushes

The new place I'm living is a heathland of Leptospermum scoparium, but the ground underneath is coated with this #Lichen (Cladonia confusa). A rather surreal looking landscape. #NewZealand #NZFlora #Moss

12.10.2023 19:12 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A magnolia warbler hand drawn onto a small wooden slice

Magnolia warbler Christmas ornament drawn with coloured pencil on a wood slice! 🪶 🐡

12.10.2023 16:38 — 👍 91    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 1

I found these right outside my door. Drosera pygmaea a #CarnivorousPlant native to Australia & #NewZealand. Tiny rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves with sticky tentacles are used to capture bugs. Leaves are often reddish & the flowers are yellow or white. #NZFlora #CarnivorousPlant #Horticulture

22.09.2023 04:46 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

A bright end of a rainbow vividly displaying all its colours

Wide-angle pic of a double rainbow spanning hillside to hillside

We seem to have moved to the end of the rainbow here in Far North, Aotearoa New Zealand. This is at least a weekly occurrence. They’re often so close that you feel as if you could reach out and touch them. Now where is that pot of gold?!

22.09.2023 03:54 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The scene is bordered by trees and shurbs on either side. These appear small relative to the falls. The falls starts at the top as a stream, that snakes toward the drop. It divides into 3 flows. It collects at the base and turns left, then turns right, flowing over rocks.

Waipunga waterfall, between Taupō and Napier in NZ. It's on the edge of a giant volcanic plateau. In this occasion, a very wet winter had increased the usual flow of water. Photographed 📷 as a long exposure. From my waterfall online gallery www.nznaturephotos.co.nz/p816347517

20.09.2023 22:53 — 👍 78    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 1

Happy yo help!

22.09.2023 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ants gnats and small flying insects

22.09.2023 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I found these right outside my door. Drosera pygmaea a #CarnivorousPlant native to Australia & #NewZealand. Tiny rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves with sticky tentacles are used to capture bugs. Leaves are often reddish & the flowers are yellow or white. #NZFlora #CarnivorousPlant #Horticulture

22.09.2023 04:46 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

A bright end of a rainbow vividly displaying all its colours

Wide-angle pic of a double rainbow spanning hillside to hillside

We seem to have moved to the end of the rainbow here in Far North, Aotearoa New Zealand. This is at least a weekly occurrence. They’re often so close that you feel as if you could reach out and touch them. Now where is that pot of gold?!

22.09.2023 03:54 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hibiscus mutabalis I think

22.09.2023 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0