Archive - Frary's Fresh Flowers

now I was going to write a nice long blog tonight but I called home and heard all about the growing that I'm missing in Tipperty, the poppies, the heather, the roses and all the weeding that has been done so got jealous/down and then I heard anbout all the money our daughters are expecting to fall off the trees and I got angry - I planted apple and pear trees not efffing money trees! !! I am just so angry and the international dialling line isn;'t working so I can't phone home to scram at them.

So what I will do instead is try to calm down and unclench my jaw before tmy teeth finally collapse into dust (one of the problems with being a rotator is that I'm never at home long enough to get decent dental treatment - my teeth are falling to pieces at the moment - literally - and the anger isn't helping).. where was I ... relax... relax - think beautiful flowers.

While trying to identify the Dombeya yesterday I came across the article I linked to - http://tenerife.sun4free.com/island/exotic-flowering-trees.html - and it cleared up a non-identification and a misidentification I had made previously on the blog.

The blue flowering tree which I posted - flowers like hare bells or polemoniums - turns out to be Jacaranda. What a great name - I'd heard it several times but never imagined that this was the tree - for some reason I always thought it was a yellow flowering tree. Jacaranda...

The tree i missidentified - well I thought that it was a Carob - the locust tree. now that it has started blooming it most clearly isn't. It is a flame tree - Delonix regia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Poinciana
The pods are around 2 feet long andf hard and dry with beans in side. -

The flowers are spectacular - big, brash red and very unpea-like and yet they are in the same leume family. The leaves are very typiocal 'rain tree' type leaves - pinnate - and now I am getting angry at the photos - the camera is so crappy that you can't really see much beyond a yellow blur but can I afford to buy one - no - because I'm supposed to pay for car insurance for a year for someone who will use the car for maybe two weeks- so much for colling down - can you hear the sound of teeth splintering?
That's me.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr