FFOS on SCARLET ORBIT It is a nice red. Good size and depth of colour.
FFOS on CHINESE SPIRIT It is often more mauve and less reddish than this.
MIDNIGHT MAGIC flowers well for a new plant.
BLACK BRIAR BAY, wh is very like MM. Maybe darker, throat less green, and a light wire edge
FFE on this unlabelled one. It appears to have dual edging: 1 pie crust ruffle, 1 gold edge, 1 half of each. It is a big flower

Maleny Eyecatcher rarely without a bloom
SECRET GARDEN keeping company with ME
PICCADILLY PRINCESS
FFOS on JOAN SENIOR hidden from wallabies, and craving water
BORDER BRIDE
MAKING WHOOPEE
SC TINY PERFECTION At last some less blurry and more realistic colouring

TROPICAL HEATWAVE
internet keeps dropping out

still loving Maleny Eyecatcher

I have Black Briar Bay in a couple of spots, it's one of my favorites.

Wonderful Bron. The mosquitos are terrible here at the moment. I go into the garden and they try to carry me away.

These ones yesterday were reaching for the sky but are dwarfed by the hoop pine which is some distance from the house.


Competing with the gardenias is this Michaelia/magnolia champaca
Bad photos of the lovely MAKING A SPLASH one of wh is completely single

TUSCAWILLA TRANQUILITY
FFOS on LOIS HALL which was not a bitone when it first flowered for me
GRACEFUL EYE taking shelter
CHARDONNAY
MIDNIGHT MAGIC leaning over to B. Alphonse Karr
MARCIA FAY in the shade
SEDUCTOR
TROPICAL HEAT WAVE

The mosquitos are horrific. Thank goodness I have already had Ross River and Dengue fever.

First blooms for the season
AUSSIE DREAMTIME


GARY COLBY


New seedlings
King Lamoni X Volaris 2016,1,13


These are interesting. The first two blooms have been polys. Fingers crossed the rest are!
WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014222




This is this seedling blooming again which is like it was cut out of a sheet of thick plastic. It would make a good throwing star. MILANESE MANGOXSEEDLING 2012 057


This one is a terrible photo but it had only one bloom and didn't see it was open before the rain hit. I know it is nocturnal from last year.
CRIKEY!XSEEDLING 2013 209


MILANESE MANGO X SEEDLING 2012 109


Others

PLANET MAX


DESPERADO LOVE


FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN


ADMIRALS BRAID reblooming


LINDEN CAPRICIUOUS reblooming

Gleni said:The mosquitos are horrific. Thank goodness I have already had Ross River and Dengue fever.

Yowzah!

Loving Planet Max I'm thinking our mosquitos are mild compared to yours but I'm always swatting them. They love me

That is an interesting magnolia, Bron. And I love the color on Making a Splash

Westbourne Tid Bit x Josie is looking promising, Glen

Blooms look lovely and healthy. Glad u hd some rain. We just have wind and forecasts of 30% chance of < 1mm. So not surprising when no rain happens. But at least sometimes cloud cover. Suppose sun and wind keep mozzies at bay. Only bad in evening.

PLANET MAX and DESPERADO LOVE look good together. Be great planted together with a dark purple one.

I think my LAVENDER SPIDER will b nice for landscaping. Can't contemplate digging out anything already planted in this weather.

Had to recharge all batteries. So blooms are after a day of heat and wind. Taken with my daughter's camera. Flash not great
FFE on EBONY JEWEL had a salvia leaf across it. U can see where it wasn't.

Large Yellow NOID
CHARDONNAY did a nice double.

Nice example in Ebony Jewel of how the sun can fade the color of a daylily. It seems such a contradiction that daylilies love and need sun but the sun washes out their color.

We had a millimetre of rain and lots of thunder. It is amazing there are any flowers
This may be WITCH'S THIMBLE
MACHO MACHO MAN
The unlabelled pie crust and gold edged pink
CHARDONNAY
SEDUCTOR
MISSOURI MEMORIES After flowering for 3 wks now on its second last bud
yellow NOID getting too much sun now
Hiding in the grass, MAKING A SPLASH
Unfortunately I missed FFOS on VICTORIA LACE

Gorgeous Bron but WITCH'S THIMBLE is making me drool

Very nice

Nice to meet you Bron and Vickie.

Glen - I recently bought a small electronic mosquito repeller that clips onto your clothing. It emits the sound of dragonfly wings to keep mosquitoes away. It's not quite mosquito season here yet so I haven't had an opportunity to try it out. I'll let you know if it works.

Being the newby to this forum, I need to ask the dumb questions. May I ask what FFOS stands for? If I had to guess, I would guess first flower of the season. Am I close?

Right on target, Robin. Think FFE is first flower ever, but not sure on that one.

Thanks Debra .

Robin
Debra you are correct on FFE
Loving all the blooms Bron, Glen, Robin and Dellac.

Thanks Mike

back to my bad camera. Lots of reds and near whites out today.
CRIMSON ICON
ANGEL TEARS
CHINESE SPIRIT
HURRICANE SKY damaged as a bud by a very hot day
MAKING WHOOPEE almost cooked by 11am
MISSOURI MEMORIES After 23 days almost non stop blooms, last one until rebloom
MACHO MACHO MAN looking very elegant in the heat
ULTIMATE PERFECTION
FOREVER RED is a knockout for colour saturation. bit darker than pic.
JOAN SENIOR looks like a larger version of AT above
SCARLET ORBIT is astonishingly fragant
MARCIA FAY
PICCADILLY PRINCESS appreciating the big watering I did yday