It is meant to be winter here in NZ. This post was inspired when on finishing our coffee in Havelock on Wednesday we spotted, instead of (or in addition to) the sorts of flowers we would expect of this season…
camelias
Violas
and Snowdrops,
yes, we spotted a gerbera (a Transvaal Daisy)
That was a surprise for a frosty morning, so we looked around and found…
yes, we spotted a gerbera (a Transvaal Daisy)
Nile lilies
Osteospermum (Cape Daisies) - August here would be equivalent of February in Pireaus and I'm sure they never flowered on my Piraeus balcony in early February
There were also early violets
and periwinkle (which probably flowers in every season) - hardy but rather old-fashioned
BTW - authors who describe someone as having periwinkle blue eyes have clearly never seen periwinkle (that would be a truly unusual human eye colour)
Bonus shots of daisies and Tibouchina (a Brasilian beauty)
The juxtaposition here of periwinkle and Tibouchina suggests (to me anyway) that maybe we shouldn't be quite so dismissive of common old periwinkle.
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