Flowers Forever 2.

The Kadorie Farm and Botanical Garden is a really huge place. It straddles two mountains and their associated valleys, complete with its own waterfalls, streams and ponds, with zigzagging roads and winding paths lined with thoughtfully planted flowers, trees and shrubs. It's got its own chicken farm, its pig farm, its aviary, its reptile house, its green house, its flower/tree nursery, its self-planting organic garden and a small insect house with educational slides about the life in that world. I only had time to visit not even half the farm because there were about 5 dozen or so different types of flowers.  Go check that out at their website: www.kfbg.org.hk  I posted some of their flowers in red in the previous blog. But they've also got lots of flowers in one of my favourite colors, yellow, too. 



The side of the road was lined with plenty of this type of yellow flowers. Looks as if they were extending their arms to those who care to look at them.

More yellow flowers

a huge sun flower.

Another one ringed by orange/ red

The same flower from the side.

This is the sunflowers' diminutive cousin.

The same flower from another angle

But not all flowers are as big as the sun flower or its smaller relatives. These little stars are really tiny.

So are these.



Some other white flowers with yellow balls for stamen. Looks like the propellers of a chubby toy plane!

This is the bud of a tiny flower which will eventually develop into 絲瓜 or 水瓜 or 勝瓜. Academically, it's called luffa cylindrica. It originally came from India. its two petals look like a snail, the back of cat with a green tail and/or a yellow seal/dog?

This is how it looks from the side. A bird about to leave its nest?

Another view of the tiny flower

The flower blooming further. Worm eaten?

A fully formed flower but its stamen hasn't open out yet.

Its fully opened flower.

Another small yellow flower. I like its 6-pronged  stamen. Is this yellow flax (石海椒) ?

Or is this one yellow flax?

Whatever it's true name,here another close up of the flower

I also found plenty of these  honeysuckle 華南忍冬

You can see the stamens sticking out, hanging down in all directions

Three white buds.



The buds beginning to open

Its the stamen has finally emerged. Really looks like its trying to escape from a hand holding a spongy yellow bun.

Their white cousin. Is that why it's called "Gold and silver flower" in Chinese (金銀花)?

how graceful are its curves !

I like the buds of this flower, lining up like a straggling queue in front of a theatre ticket office

The buds opening.

Its flower has a unique tube opening out at the top with two of its stamen sticking out.

This is the (?). Sorry. Must confess ignorance.

Its flower emerging from the leaves. One could already see the stamen well sheltered within its white hairy cases.

The flower opening out from the almond flakes of some Danish pastry.

This is the frangipani (雞蛋花)



A close up of one of its flowers in about to open up.

This is small allamanda or bush allamanda (硬枝黃憚)

Here's another one. Really love it velvety yellow.

This is a white flower whose name I don't know. A lily?

Look at its pollen, dusting the lower part of its petals.

This is what the pollens are all about !

The bee prying its sucker into the honey at the centre of the flower

The legs of the bee full of pollen

The bee curving its body to draw out all the honey its sucker can reach. So was I, with my camera!