Yes, as I said, it is that time of year when many trees flower. So they can set seeds into the wet season, and hopefully germinate a few replacement seeds that will become new trees.
While there have been a few over the past few weeks, this past week has been the time for weeping rosewood trees to do their thing. They have a beautiful, pendulous crown and the shade under a weeping rosewood is very dense, for all of about 50 weeks each year.......not 52 though.
They have been flowering this past week or so, and they are very eyecatching with a large dense crown thoroughly covered in bright golden flowers. But you need to be quick, as the flowers are really an "all or nothing" event, rapidly going from bright yellow flowers to almost no colour as the flowers are rapidly shed onto tthe ground. THEN........they lose most of the leaves, but for about 1-2 weeks, during which time they look awful. It is not uncommon for newcomers to think the tree has died, or maybe, succumbed to termites.
Then a verdant green replacement set of leaves arrives on the scene, for another year.
One photo is of a single tree, not far from our house two days ago - in full colour. It is magnificent. The others are of a group of trees on a major road - yesterday they were still resplendent in yellow, but today........look hard and see what is left of the flowers, as a pale yellow brown tinge.......with leaf fall to come. It happens that quickly.
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You're so lucky to live somewhere so lovely and green. I miss colours that aren't shades of brown. LOL
You asked when i was in India. This time around was in peak idiot season: the end of July. I left the sweltering heat of Cairo for the melting humidity of Delhi. But we actually lived there full time for a year so I'm sadly familiar with Delhi's weather patterns.
It is the month of the falling mango here in Darwin at the present time [also described as suicide month, with stats to verify it]........steamingly, stinking hot [ mid to high 30+C] and humidity around 115%, with little rain around, so far. All that means is that when it starts to rain,it will catch up to the average......as a work colleague once described the local rain patterns in a scientific paper- "within 10% of average, but with a distribution different to all past records". Current temperature is 30C at 1130pm. And yes....it is green!!
Thanks for visiting.
You have posted very pretty shots of yellow flowers that is appreciated. Keep up the good work. Cheers :)
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