A beautiful large nectar laden flower beloved of honeyeaters and pigmy possums, held on an emergent stalk, of the Sandstone country of Eastern Australia. Also difficult (but ever so rewarding! :) to grow in cultivation, requiring full sun, yet sheltering from summer heat, needing moisture...
'Christmas, Christmas Bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them sing
Soon it will be Christmas Day'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZeAImrvtqw
Beautiful delicate red and yellow tubular bell flowers of the swamps of the Upper Blue Mountains escarpment heath and sedge lands...
....Of spring in the Carolina's? Or has just seeing the sun for a few days and warm temps got me all excited.
These are only about 2 inches high but sure were colorful.
A sweet female hovers above the old tractor tire flower bed. From the middle of last August. The next visit only 4-5 months away.
Blessed, by yearly visits, Dan
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