Flower of the Day – December 20 – Pink Bower Vine (Pandorea jasminoides)

Sometimes also known as the Bower of Beauty this beautiful and delicate flower is misleading – it is as tough as they come, at least in regards to the heat and dry conditions. It does not like the cold so much and who could blame it for that? Fortunately, where i live, it never gets all that cold. 🙂

It is a member of the Bignoniacaea family and not as the name might indicate the jasmines which belong to the Oleacaea. With little to no care on my part, but for the occasional watering and keeping ‘in check’ by cutting off excess growth, this vine covers a patch of my fence with these beautiful flowers for most months of the year. 🙂

(Click on the pics to open in a new window and click again to see full size detail) 🙂Delicate.

I can literally open my front door and see this sight for most of the year! 🙂

This one almost looks like a different flower – but it is just down to the light and the angle of shot. 🙂

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Cee’s Flower of the Day – December 20, 2018 – Poinsettia

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love. ❤

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