ABELIA

I just love the Abelia plant since the first time I saw it at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Now we have these 2 variegated forms from Australia. If I love the normal green form so much, you can imagine how much I love these variegated varieties.

SKIPPER ON ABELIA

I saw this skipper on the beautiful Abelia grandiflora plant from the Caprifoliaceae Family. I am not sure if this is the Starry Bob skipper?

It then skipped, I mean hopped, onto the adjacent Abelia grandiflora 'Kaleidoscope'.

Anyway, from the attached link, I just realized that the plant should be Abelia x grandiflora (Andre) Rehd. and it was hybridized between A. chinensis and A. uniflora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelia_x_grandiflora

ROMA STREET PARKLAND

This was one of the last locations of the Australia trip on the last day on 17 Apr 10. I like this park very much and there are quite a number of photos, so I have to break this up into several posts.

The first photo showed the bed of red roses that greeted us at the entrance to the park.

Then there was the interesting sculpture that reminded me of a ring of overlapping half domes structures.

This was followed by the Abelia grandiflora that I love so much. The dishevelled branches add to its allure.

The next photos showed the ever pretty Bauhinia galpinii that I posted so often in this blog.

Then there were 3 black-white coloured Ibis birds that reminded me vividly of the scarlet red ones that I saw in the Jurong Bird Park many years that originated from Egypt.

The Roma Street station is an interchange of sorts and has multiple train lines and buses that ply this area.

In the last photo, they displayed their creativeness by trying to grow the Bougainvilleas up the concrete slope area.

ABELIA

I was in love with Abelia since the time I saw it planted by a colleague at Singapore Botanic Gardens almost a year ago.

In Australia, they seemed to have various varieties of the variegated Abelia. The small white flowers are also slightly fragrant. In addition, the small pinkish sepals are a great contrast with the green or variegated leaves and white flowers.

When I saw the huge clump of normal green leaved Abelia grandiflora with long arching branches at Aspley's Nursery, I was mesmerized. I could not remember Robert Percy mentioned how long it took this plant to grow to that size. All I remembered was how spectacular it looked.