[John J]

Hilary, our Bougainvillea is in full flower now, taken this morning.

[Hilary]

Explosive, like the fireworks last night

[John J]

We only heard a few fireworks last night, sadly no church bells. We hear that in one part of the village someone had set up speakers outside his home and transmitted the service from Kykko Monastery. His neighbours were outside on their front patios or balconies with candles ready to light at midnight.
The church is usually decorated with white flowers today. As that can't happen Thea has compromised by making some arrangements for the house.

[Hilary]

Charithea wrote that in Cyprus the churches are decorated with white flowers on Easter Sunday. This piece of information inspired me to find some photos of white flowers for you today. Luckily, I have a file, another unfinished project, named WHITE FLOWERS.
Here is a selection of photos of white flowers all taken in April

[Hilary]

Red flowers today
All the photos were taken in Aprils past in Greece except the erythrina which we saw while running from the rain to go to the aquarium in Lisbon

[Hilary]

ORANGE FLOWERS IN APRIL IN YEARS PAST
All the photos were taken in Greece except the one of Papaver croceum which we saw in Paris

[Charithea]

Hilary, I loved all your flowers, white, red, orange etc. I have been trying to identify them all. Thank you for the posting and of course all the others too.

[Hilary]

Glad you like the rainbow coloured flowers, tomorrow is yellow, easy peasy, but then it is green. Not many green coloured flowers around . I don't write the name of the flowers on the assumption that anyone wanting to know the name would ask. Not that I know all the names of the plants anyway

[Umbrian]

Am trying Nasturiums here for the first time this year after seeing them in a friend's garden last year. I had always thought our temperatures would be too high for them to continue for long but she had them in a shady position and they were still looking good in late autumn. The seeds have germinated well so ... fingers crossed.

[Hilary]

YELLOW FLOWERS IN APRIL IN YEARS PAST

The photo of the Potentilla was taken in the garden of the Archaeological Museum Madrid. If you are ever in Madrid and have some time to spare please do visit this museum

The photo of the mass of yellow tulips was taken in THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, MADRID

All the other photos were taken in Greece

[Hilary]

GREEN PLANTS/ TREES APRIL

Well there are not many green flowers around and the two photos I have were taken in other months.
Today I will be posting photos from our travels, thanks goodness we took the opportunity when we did, and one photo taken by our son M

1 a cloisonné Easter egg, I have a collection of egg cups and painted eggs
2 Quercus frainetto taken by M in Foloi, Elis, GREECE
3 Cynara cardunculus, Corinthia GREECE
4 Agave attenuate ‘Salma Dyke’ Lisbon, PORTUGAL
5 Chusan palm, Madrid, SPAIN
6 Cedrus deodara, Bilbao, SPAIN
7 Acer pseudoplatanus, San Sebastian, SPAIN
8 Hellebore, Paris, FRANCE
Note the information for  4,6 and 7 was supplied by notices

[Charithea]

Top marks to you Hilary for being inventive.  I saw green flowers on a climber about 50 years ago in the Botanic Garden in Singapore.  I saw the same flowers in the La Mortella Garden in Ischia a few years ago. I wrote the name down somewhere and can not remember where.

[John J]

My wife thinks these self-sown Cerinthe and Centranthus ruber make a good colour combination. I'm not so sure. What do you think?

[Hilary]

They look good to me, leave them alone

[Hilary]

Charithea,
There are articles about La Mortella in 13 issues of THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN . you never know the green flower you are interested in might be mentioned in one of them.
I looked at the website of La Mortella and there is a very strange blue/ green flower featured
Puya berteroniana