Regular Random: five minutes with some pink flowers

Amaryllis belladonna or Lycoris squamigera both sometimes called Naked Ladies. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

My late mother in law loved flowers, and while she was still able to garden, bought and planted blooms of all sorts. It seemed that whatever the time of year, Joy’s garden always offered some colourful, often fragrant, delights.

She died about 18 months ago, and the garden has become rather wild and overgrown. But the flowers remain, and I couldn’t resist picking a few of the flowers that line the long driveway.

Calliandra surinamensis (?) flower bud. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Dying petals. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Calliandra surinamensis (?) flower. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

All that remains; petals in decay. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Dying petals. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Dying petals. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Amaryllis belladonna or Lycoris squamigera? Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Amaryllis belladonna or Lycoris squamigera? Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Calliandra surinamensis (?) flowers. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Calliandra surinamensis (?) flowers. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Lilies and calliandra branches. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Calliandra surinamensis (?) flowers. Image: Su Leslie, 2018

Five Minutes of Random (the #RegularRandom challenge) is hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist.

If you’d like to join in:

• choose a subject or a scene
• spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
• try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
• tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
• have fun!

Update: some additional botanical research has left me unsure if the “lilies” are Amaryllis belladonna or Lycoris squamigera (resurrection lily)– both members of the Amaryllis family and not lilies at all.