Frangipani and Day Lily

18 years ago

I can never quite make up my mind if I like the coloured Frangipanis or the white ones best. Somedays I just think the white ones look so wonderful, then other days I can't help but admire the colours of this one.

I am rather partial to the delicate colouring of this Day Lily.

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User
18 years ago
Amazing Barbara you and I putting frannys and kookaburras on at the same time.
Your Birds are terrific and speaking of Frangipani I put a link on to the ones
That are on sale at Big W today Barbara it over in the Gardening in Oz Forum.
It may tempt you into buying one. O that Day lily is fantastic too.
Cheers..MM.
paradisi
18 years ago
still very impressed by the quality of your photos barbarah_70

do you touch up the photos to make them look like paintings (the frangipani especially looks like one of those wonderful old art book pictures)

or is it the skill of the photographer??

;-)
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goldhills
18 years ago
You have excelled yourself again. The birds look fantastic, how do you make them sit still they always move when I try and take photos of them. The frangi is very pretty. You can never seem to get two the same. I have similar colours but one has more orange and another has more pink. That day lily is gorgeous, do you know the name of it or where I could get one like it? I love it.
triciac
18 years ago
Now that really is a superb photo of the kooka, Barbara. AND you are so lucky being able to grow those magnificent frangipani. One thing I do envy you up that end, is the ability to grow them. Can't believe you buy them in Big W.
barbarah_70
Original Author
18 years ago
thanks.
Paradisi: The photos are more or less as they come out of the camera, I do sometimes brighten them or crop the photo to get rid of excess and add a touch of unsharp mask. That's the limmit of my editing. I keep promising myself, that I will find the time to learn how to to more than the basics with editing software, but never seem to get around to it.
Tricia, you can grow so many things that I cant, I envy you.
goldhills
18 years ago
Barbarah, do you happen to know the name of the day lily or where we could get one? Both hubby and I have fallen in love with it.
trancegemini_wa
18 years ago
I love your frangipani the colour is really beautiful, great bird pics too, doves always seem to have that wide eyed look dont they? lol
greencroc
18 years ago
Your a wiz Barb,lovely shots,I have a ball watching doves come and eat at our place,there is a flock of about ten.Yes and a Kookaburra comes along and sits and watches on the clothes line,lovely day-lilly,frangipanni,cheers,greencroc.
barbarah_70
Original Author
18 years ago
Greencroc & Goldhills:
Sorry it's taken me so long to answer, I've been very busy.
As for the name, no I can't help you, it's from my next door neighbour and she was given it many years ago and cannot remember the name.
goldhills
18 years ago
Thanks anyway Barbarah. A good excuse to go around day lily nurseries to find out.

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