Hong Kong Flower Show 2015 (香港花展 2015)

The Hong Kong Flower Show appears to be a must for everyone who loves to carry their camera around with them. For a number of years now, I always make it a point to indulge myself a little at around this time of the year. Whether I can take good photos or not, I got the chance to look at some beautiful flowers.

And sometimes, even a beautiful girl!

Orchids are a must at many flower shows. This year, they've become our "theme" flower.

Everywhere you go, you find them,

whether in special arrangements by various flower art schools

or amateur flower arrangement societies

or the booths of various participating organizations.

Most of them are yellow orchids but occasionally, you find some red ones

or mixed red and yellow

or even purple.

Some of the flowers are huge

or this one

but they need not all have thick and waxy petals.

Most of the flowers are rather small

and grow fairly close to the ground,

like these

and these

Some turn towards us

others away from us.

Some grow together in clumps straight up,

others extend horizontally.

Some are bell shaped,

and grow straight up a stem.

Others appear only at the tip of their long stem.

Some may have long stamens.

Some of such stamens stand out very prominently.

Some extend well beyond the tips of its petals,

whilst others stay inside.

A big crowd drawer every year is the tulip.

But this year, not all the tulips are prepared to bloom at the same time.

How can there be a flower show without roses!

.
but roses are proud and prefer to bloom alone.

  

But not the chrysanthemums

and the daisies, which can bloom alone

or together 

 They can be bright red,

or pink

or almost purple

 They can have their stamens standing out prominently at the centre like a bun

  or nest themselves at the centre below their petals. 

Some of the flower petals can be separate from each other.

But most of the petals stay fairly close together.



Although most of the flowers at the show are potted or pottable plants, some grow on the branches of trees,



like these.



Some flowers are specially arranged together although they belong to different species.

The petals of some of the flowers are quite delicate and look as if they were almost transparent.

But not everything at the flower show are flowers. There are also cactus leaves

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and believe it or not, chillies!

 

No matter what the colors of the flowers or their shapes or the way they grow may be , it is obvious that some people have put in a lot of work into making it enjoyable for us. So we need to be grateful to them, whoever they are! Without them, there will simply be no flower show, good or bad!