Looks a bit like photos I've seen of wisteria, but not as drapey, and ours is a shrub, not a vine. The pink poui has also been displaying itself for weeks, almost too beautiful to be real, and now its gold cousin is popping all over the hillsides and verges. Makes me glad to be alive!
[I took these photos with my ratty cell phone camera. My son needs to drop by with his trusty Canon to do this thing justice.]
9 comments:
I love the word 'berserk' and indeed your shrub has gone that way beautifully!
what a beauty - and wonderful pictures!
Once again it's absolutely pouring down here!
What a beautiful burst of color!
Ooh... lovely pictures. We used to have some bushes like that near our driveway when I was a kid. I was always terrified of them because they attracted bumble bees!
The purple is nice and the camera is not bad if the color was meant to be purple :)
Today, I noticed some purple petrea down in Central and they seem to be a though plant as they are growing wild near, or is it in, a cane field.
Xuxana, welcome to the blog! I'm fond of that word myself!
Flowerpot, the flowers last only a week or so - which makes the beauty that much more precious and wonderful.
Chris, it is indeed. Literally now - the rains are finally with us.
Phyllis, it's truly beautiful, and my mother's favorite colour. The house is lavender too and when this shrub bursts into bloom she's very happy.
Welcome, India! Yes, bumble bees and LOTS of plain old honey bees!
akalol, yup, they're light purple with deep purple centres. And it's definitely a tough shrub; ours suffered for years through various stages of potbound, including the extreme version, but it bloomed just as enthusiastically as when we finally put it into the ground and gave it some space.
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