July flowers

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I am having a wetter and cooler than normal season, so far. July is traditionally the driest month of the year in the Azores, while August is the warmest.
As usual, the New Zealand Christmas tree, or Metrosideros excels is in full bloom:

There is also a yellow Calla Lily that just pops up every year:

I have some xAmarcrinums – a cross between Amaryllis and Crinum, that bloom at the same time as the Crinums:

Then there is the Fuchsia boliviana. I have the white one, but it is still settling in, so the all red one brightens up its area:

An annual poppy keeps self-sowing. I started this years and years ago, and haven’t had to replant since:

Then there is the huge Strelitzia Nicolai. To take the first photo, I had to go to a terrace I have and use a zoom lens to get the photo as it is about 20’ above the ground.

Then I went down to the ground level and zoomed up to the same set of flowers. Here you can see the flowers leak a sticky substance that I haven’t seen on their smaller cousins. They also have 4 or 5 tiers of flowers, so they last a long time.

Then there is today’s brag flower. Last year I started seeds of 2 different Cypella species. Cypella herbertii started flowering in April and is still flowering like crazy:

Today, I got the first Cypella coelestis. This stands about 2 feet tall and is 2½" across. Like the other, it only lasts 1 day, but will produce lots of flowers, so that doesn’t really matter.

• 1 Jul, 2019
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