Silk tree

The silk tree on our lawn (Albizzia Persian Silk Tree) is flowering beautifully this year. In fact, this is the best it has ever done, as it is planted where the salty, westerly winds hammer it. I have noticed that all the silk trees seem to be flowering really well - a nice follow on from the bright red of the pohutukawa tree flowers.

[Martina]

Love the colours in this shot.

[julia]

Lovely shot... love the little spot of yellow pollen on the tips of the fluff... fav

[Kerry]

Beautiful photo. I love silk tree flowers.

[Delia]

Beautiful and very delicate

[Maggiemae]

Lovely pink explosions of colour at the end of these stems! This is very pretty - more than pretty! fav

[Rica]

great shot!!

[Sarah Bremner]

Gorgeous

[Dr.sridhar]

Nice one

[Tony]

Beautifully captured.

[Paula W]

What lovely bright colours and interesting textures.

[Issi Bannerman]

What a pretty picture! Love the shades of greens and pinks.

[Beryl Lloyd]

A beautiful tree and shot !

[Helen]

Beautiful capture & colours

[Joyce]

So soy and pretty. Well captured Dianne

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Very pretty

[Elsie T]

Very pretty and like the way you have framed it.

[Brigette]

really pretty - actually looks like a silk print

[Dione Giorgio]

So beautiful and so bright. Must be gorgeous to see.

[Sheralee S]

That's so pretty. We have a yellow type of albizzia that is a weed. It grows everywhere and is hard to kill. The flowers are yellow like these but not quite as pretty.

[Sam]

Very pretty!

[sally agnew]

My Silk Tree is slowly dying :( This is a gorgeous capture of their sweet flowers :)

[Peter]

Stunning colours and details against the bokeh background Dianne, love the composition and presentation:)

[Faye Turner]

So pretty, lovely capture.

[👑 AnaZad]

Beautiful flowers and lovely capture.

[essiesue]

This is beautifully captured. fav

[Fisher Family]

Lovely capture of the delicate blooms. Love the colours too. Katharine

[Irene]

What a gorgeous plant. I love the contrast between the knobbly green stems and the delicate pink flowers

[Margaret Brown]

So delicate and a such a pretty pink

[Christine]

Lovely delicate flower. Good shot. Fav

[Pat Knowles]

That is a very beautiful tree & one I have never heard of before.....lovely colours!

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot, processing and framing of this beautiful , interesting flowers.

[Margaret Obey]

This is so beautiful

[Jax]

beautiful

[Richard Sayer]

Wow, this is very exotic to European eyes... I like this a lot.

[Rachel]

They are so pretty.

[Julie Chapa]

Stunning! Fav!

[Keri]

Beautiful

[Maggie]

You have captured this so beautifully with that green bokeh-studded background. They have been flowering down here too, but don't think I could manage a shot as lovely as this.

[Dianne]

@snaphappi I had to cheat a bit and pick these as the flowers were too high in the tree. Then I held them and the alder tree was in the distance, giving a bokeh effect. Try it sometime. Thanks for all the favs. Happy weekend- I fly to South Island this afternoon but going to central Otago and Dunedin.