Today's Flowers: Morning Glory

Today's Flowers: Mimosa

Today's Flowers: Trumpet Vine

非洲凌霄 Podranea ricasoliana, of Bignoniaceae family, an English common name pink trumpet vine known of its trumpet shaped flowers.

It is a vigorous, evergreen scrambler with glossy compound leaves. The beautiful trumpet shaped flowers are pale pink with carmine stripes and yellowish shading in the throat. Flowering time is summer and autumn. The fruit is a bean-like capsule containing winged seeds. Pink trumpet vine grows best in a sunny position, but will tolerate light shade. It needs a well drained soil and a strong support if it is to be grown as a climber. It has low water needs once established. It looks good grown over fences, very free flowering, virtually pest and disease free and drought resistant.

 

Some of other photos from my friend's, taken under the day light

 

 

 



Today's Flowers: Bellflower

Campanula is one of several genera in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. Hinting its bell-shaped flowers—campanula is Latin for "little bell". The genus includes over 500 species and several subspecies, distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region east to the Caucasus. The range also extends into mountains in tropical regions of Asia and Africa. The species include annual, biennial and perennial plants, and vary in habit from dwarf arctic and alpine species under 5 cm high, to large temperate grassland and woodland species growing to 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall.

The leaves are alternate and often vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower leaves higher up; the leaf margin may be either entire or serrated (sometimes both on the same plant). Many species contain white latex in the leaves and stems. The flowers are produced in panicles (sometimes solitary), and have a five-lobed corolla, typically large (2–5 cm or more long), mostly blue to purple, sometimes white or pink. Below the corolla, 5 leaf-like sepals form the calyx. Some species have a small additional leaf-like growth termed an "appendage" between each sepal, and the presence or absence, relative size, and attitude of the appendage is often used to distinguish between closely related species.

Today's Flowers: Hoya

 

 

 

 Hoya C.V." Krimson Queen"

 

 Hoya carnosa

 

Common Melastoma

...common melastoma (野牡丹) close up shot from somewhere in Singapore. Linking to Macro Monday 2

Today's Flowers: Pagoda Flowers

Clerodendrum paniculatum, also known as Pagoda flowers, Origin from Southeast Asia, Chinese name: 圆锥大青, Taiwan called 龙船花.