Botanical Update

 

If you followed up on my recent pix of the Gomphocarpus, you'd know
that said plant is considered really good eatin' by Monarch butterflies

Here's one stuffing him/herself in Russell; wait, no, maybe it's two
Monarch butterflies, and they're not munching on the Gomphocarpus...

My earlier speculation that spring is late here and that the
Pohutukawas are not fully bloomed...was dead wrong...it was a
warm early spring, the trees bloomed in November and December
before we got here, and the later December and January storms
blew most of the delicate petals away...oh well...next time....