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6/12/15

scenes from a fern house

These were taken earlier this year at New Plymouth's Pukekura Park Fern House.






I thought I might get away with not looking up the name of this purple beauty, but I was wrong! It's name is Blue Mist Flower [Bartlettina sordida], I believe.






26 comments:

  1. Beautiful! The last plant sure does have a very interesting flower. Love its fluffiness.

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  2. beautiful flowers. What is the last one - the woolly purple flower - amazing.

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  3. Beautiful flowers! I love the last purple ones, so cute.

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  4. Love those dangling pink blossoms. How lovely!

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  5. Beautiful collection of flowers!

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  6. Wonderful flowers! The third photo is my favourite.
    Have a lovely weekend!

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  7. Oh wow! Those are incredible flowers! I love them all, but that purple thing is amazing. Great shots!

    Thank you for joining us again this week for Photo Friday!

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  8. Yha, I'im not sure what that last one is either, but it is a super neat flower. Beautiful

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  9. Beautiful photos, these are stunning. - Tasha

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  10. lovely Betty, are those fuschias I see in one of the photos?

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  11. Would like to visit this place. Your pictures are gorgeous!

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  12. So pretty! I love going to places where they have an abundance of flowers, and then taking a million pictures and getting lost in their beauty!

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  13. Those flowers are SO beautiful. Is fern house another name for greenhouse? Or shade house? (Ignorant here, sorry; sometimes I think we speak a different language over here ;>)

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  14. @Sallie, yes, they are greenhouses that started with just ferns and the name stuck.

    @Amy, yes, they are fuchsias.

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  15. A marvellous collection!
    Have a nice weekend

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  16. These arrangements of flowers are so beautiful but also natural - that's the way I like it:) Happy weekend!

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  17. Lovely flowers.
    Have a happy weekens.

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  18. What a treat to see all these lovely flowers in your post!

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  19. Thank you for the lovely comments on my latest post! - Tasha

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  20. That blue mist flower is my favorite out of all the shots you took as it is so unusual. The name of the park makes a great tongue twister.

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  21. All beautiful, but that blue mist flower is nothing like I have seen before. It looks so soft. I also love the fairy flowers towards the top (I know they have a name, but my girls called them that when they were little and it stuck in my mind pushing out the real name).

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