There's much pleasure in the first flower of the season of one's favourite species and in seeing tiny tubestock plants grow and produce their first flowers - although this honey myrtle (Melaleuca thymifolia) ( melaleuca cotton candy) has taken six years to do it. Here are some more firsts - and maybe an answer to the mystery plant question... First kangaroo paw opens and an apricot grevillea. The first grass tree flowers for the year are blooming and the honey bees seem almost frantic in their enthusiasm for them. Have done a lot of trawling through pictures on the net and tentatively suggest that this is a type of cybister amaryllis - there's one called 'Quito' that looks similar, but hails from Ecuador in the Andean foothills ...By any name it's a striking flower - 14cm across - and how it got here remains an intriguing question.
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