Pink is not my favorite color but a look at my summer garden might suggest otherwise. The Lisianthus (
Eustoma grandiflorum) I've featured in my vase posts for weeks are mostly pink. Now,
Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid' has produced a fresh flush of pink blooms. When I purchased the plant in 2015 I'd convinced myself that the flowers were more peach than pink - but they're pink. They're very pretty, though, and the plant is a bee magnet. It's a last minute choice for this week's Wednesday Vignette, the meme hosted by Anna of
Flutter & Hum.
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| Photographed from this direction, the Callistemon blooms don't look particularly abundant. (Some of the remaining pink Lisianthus insisted on photobombing the shot.) |
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| The majority of blooms are on the east-facing side of the plant |
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| We've got a strong breeze going, blowing the branches this way and that. This was the best close-up of a flower and a bee that I could manage but most flowers have 2 or 3 bees buried in the blossoms. |
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