Peter Timmermans
@TimmermansPeter
Avid gardener, fan of palms and magnolias. Growing 20+ palms in my garden at -5 m and -22 to +35 C. Pics my own except retweets or stated otherwise.
Shot from the heart of a 200+ year old Dracaena draco, Jardin de la Marquesa, Arucas, Gran Canaria
Pretty in pink for this weeks #SixOnSaturday🌸 Happy weekend to all! #FlowersOnX #GardeningX #gardening #mygarden
Did anybody else ever get told off by their Grandad for popping fuchsia buds open? Here we have Grewia occidentalis flowers which open beautifully but without that satisfying pop.
My little flower field in all its glory. Happy weekend to all! #SixOnSaturday #GardeningX #GardenersWorld #mygarden
Common carder bee, Bombus pascuorum on a Agapanthus floret
Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions
We had the chance to see a Rafflesia keithii near Poring (Sabah, Malaysia). It parasitises on the vine Tetrastigma leucostaphylum and can reach up to 80–95 cm in diameter.
The lush foliage enjoying a nice albeit brief spot of rain , Schefflera macrophylla BWJ16322 and Lobelia leschenaultiana.
Lily of the Orinoco or Natal lily, Crinum moorei
Ajuga reptans L. #botany #Lamiaceae #taxonomy #plantsci #Lankester #PlantBlindnesss #PlantAwareness #angiosperms #biodiversity #nature #science @IndurotUniovi @UOdivulga @uniovi_info
One of my new Daylilies, bought it last year... and I already forgot her name 😌 But she is a huge flower and awful pretty 😍🌸💕
見つけた時、思わず変な声が出た!! Amorphophallus atroviridis 石灰岩地帯に生えるコンニャク属の仲間。葉縁が赤紫になり美しい。石灰岩の穴の中から生えているようで、石灰岩の上に葉だけが顔を出していた。
Cordyline, Lagerstroemias, Jacaranda, Agapanthus, bougainville, mimosa , Sabal palm and Dracaena drago on the balcony
Palm pic of the week. Flowers of East African doum palm, Hyphaene compressa
Senegal date palm (Phoenix reclinata) at Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. Planted 1905. #RBGMelbourne #Arecaceae #Phoenixreclinate)
Early winter blossom: Prunus mume 'The Geisha' - Japanese flowering apricot #Prunus #RBGMelbourne