Thursday 8 December 2016

The pohutukawa trees are flowering at last!




Summer is here and the red Pohutukawa trees are flowering at last, these are New Zealand's iconic Christmas tree, they usually line the coastlines along the country and myth has it if the flowers are out before December then it means we will get a good hot Summer. Looking forward to it -but not the humidity though...

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8 comments:

Rhonda Albom said...

They started flowering up on Hibiscus Coast before December. I even planted a couple in the bush behind my house this week.

Fun60 said...

A new one for me. Love your photos of them.

Photo Cache said...

That's beautiful. I like flowering trees.

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Jim said...

Great shots.
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Photo(Geo)grapher said...

What lovely shots. I like

Light and Voices said...

Well, it does look like you will have a warm summer. Enjoy!

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

What a great tree ..l you have the Christmas weather I like ... and hopefully will get now that we are in Florida.

betty-NZ said...

You're so lucky! We have a few starting to bloom at the coast (New Plymouth and Hawera) but they never quite make it before Christmas Day.

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