Strelitzia - Bird of Paradise

This week I am posting photos taken from the path along the waterfront from my house to the marina.

The Bird of Paradise looked so beautiful in the sunshine.

Thanks so much for putting 'Single File' on the TT.

[Lois]

That’s a gorgeous bird of paradise! We have a row in our yard here in California but they don’t look as beautiful as this!

[gloria jones]

So lovely.

[Dawn]

Lovely

[eDorre]

Wonderful color and light

[Kathy A]

Striking plant

[Diana]

They always look fabulous.

Congrats on the top spot for your gorgeous camels Babs, I wish you would visit them more often. You always take such amazing photos of them, I love the stretch of coast too.

[Issi Bannerman]

Looks so 'alive'! Gorgeous.

[Casablanca]

Ah, don't need the smelling salts for this one. I adore Bird of Paradise flowers. Just stunning things

[Cliff McFarlane]

Nature is amazing. Good capture

[Babs]

@casablanca only one more flower to go and you can put the smellimg salts away.
Talking of flowers, I dead headed the birds of paradise in our front garden yesterday , so some of ours have gone to paradise

[Casablanca]

@onewing Feathered friend flowers. What more could you want?

[Bill Davidson]

Wonderful….

[haskar]

Amazing flower.

[Wylie]

Nice shot. Mine shows no inclination to flower, but then I really haven't looked after it.

[Susan Wakely]

Lovely.

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful

[Carole Sandford]

Spectacular!

[Dione Giorgio]

Lovely shot. They produce amazing flowers.

[Brian]

Beautiful capture

[Peter]

Beautifully captured in lovely light and colours Diana, Fav:)

[Renee Salamon]

Ready for take off

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Christine Sztukowski]

Beautiful lighting and capture

[Lesley]

A stunner!!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

It looks like it's getting ready to speak- good shot!

[Angela]

Amazing plant

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful.

[Sue Cooper]

A beautiful capture of a stunning flower. Fav.

[Beryl Lloyd]

So beautiful and strangely enough it looks as if -"the bird" is walking across the lawn

[carol white]

A lovely capture

[Kathy]

It truly does look like a bird.

[Margaret Brown]

Such an amazing flower!

[KWind]

A beautiful flower!

[Olwynne]

Incredible flowers

[Rob Z]

Such wonderful shapes!

[KV]

Beautiful.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Beautiful

[Jeremy Cross]

Amazing flower

[Zilli]

Such a beauty!

[Islandgirl]

Beautiful!

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful capture. It really does look like the head of a tropical bird here.

[Pat]

This is pretty marvellous, the colours are so nice.

[Paula Fontanini]

Gorgeous capture! These have to be the craziest flower ever...it really does look like a bird!

[Babs]

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Thanks, they are beautiful flowers, this one looks as though it is flying.

@pusspup I have one of these in our front garden and it doesn't get much attention apart from the occasional dead heading with secateurs. Luckily because we have had a lot of rain lately it is flowering like mad.