PSEUDOGYNOXYS CHENOPODIOIDES

I know I keep posting the same plants over and over again but sometimes when I see them, their alluring beauty is too hard for me to resist.

So here are photos of the Mexican Flame Vine (Family: Asteraceae/Compositae) at the garden. I have always been enthralled by some of the compositae flowers such as the Echinacea and this vine with orangey-scarlet ray and disc florets are remarkably eye-catching.

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I love this captivating climber Mexican Flame Vine that I planted at the Home Garden swing and at the Car Park Garden's trellis and was pleasantly surprised to see the latter putting out its best display for all to see. I certainly hope it would gain some popularity in other gardens.


The Devil's Tree or Indian Pulai Tree (scientific name: Alstonia scholaris) must have flowered spectacularly recently, considering the amount of pendulous seed pods that were hanging on the tree.


And I can never forget this Flame of the Forest or Red Flame tree (scientific name: Delonix regia) because I deliberately and painstakingly selected it, with the intention of making it the symbolic representation of HortPark. But I never got to or achieved that stage. All I did was planting out a few of them at Floral Walk and Car Park Garden and the remaining were planted at the Floral Stitches where the display plots were. This particular tree at the Car Park Garden flowered recently and it bewildered me why the terminal branches with flowers were pruned off just days before?


Up at the Floral Walk, I noticed the grafted Wrightia dubia was much taller than before and it was still flowering. I am glad I planted these strikingly beautiful plants along the walkway for others to appreciate them.


If not for the Alstonia photos, this would be a post entirely dedicated to orange or peach coloured flowering plants. 

IPOMOEA LOBATA

My colleague gave me a young Ipomoea lobata recently and I gladly accepted it because of the unusual flowers that look different from the typical bell-shaped flowers characterized by Ipomoea.

I first saw it a few months ago when this colleague grew it and displayed it at HortPark's Lifestyle Corner. It was just so breathtakingly gorgeous with its numerous varied coloured flowers. Unfortunately, this plant does not seemed to produce any fruits or seeds that we can collect.

This first photo was taken on 2 Jan 10 when the first of a cluster of flowers appeared. Noticed the red flower which would eventually turn orange to yellow as shown in the attached photos.

The second photo was taken on 8 Jan 10 and the newly opened flowers were already showing shades of red, orange and yellow as they aged. Compare the size, colour and shape of these flowers with the typical bell-shaped purple flower of the Ipomoea morning glory that was grown in the same pot. The non-flowering Mexican Flame Vine is in the background.

The third and fourth photos were taken today.