Borage...

Blue and beautiful...

Blue borage flowers are a stunning colour, 

and the bees just adore them.

In fact blue borage honey is one of my favourites.

The borage self-seeds freely in the garden. 

For a special touch to summer drinks, 

the little blue flowers look fabulous if you freeze them in icecubes.

The young leaves have a cucumber taste.

If grown near tomatoes, the borage is meant to improve flavour,

 as well as being a bee magnet which is great for pollination.

Red Camelia...

I love camellias (but then I love all flowers!).

A lot of people hate them, because they are messy.  

But I think the floral display they have is worth every bit of mess. 

This camelia is a Japonica variety.  

It is called 'Pirates Gold'.

Stunning Azalea...

This azalea is stunning with the brightest pink edged white blooms.
Now growing in a large pot situated on a sunny deck.  Probably not ideal conditions for it, but it's very happy and has doubled in size since last summer.
I don't know the name of it, as it was an impulse buy from the supermarket plant stand. And it just had a label that said 'azalea'!
Don't you just hate the way they position that stand of flowering plants just as you enter the supermarket.
I always seem to have a plant in my trolley at the start of every grocery shop!