Lustrous Red In Keeping With Hot Days
Radiant flamboyant trees (Royal Poinciana trees - Delonix regia) with a broad-spreading, umbrella-like canopy of lacy, feathery green leaves gives an explosion of yellow, orange, red flowers to delight during summer.
Sitting quietly enjoying the afternoon breeze coming up through the valley from the sea, or out walking a tree offering shade with blooms nudging your visual senses to summer festive season (now drawing to a close), showy vibrant paradise flowers reminding you the heat has been turned up for the next few months.
During sizzling hot days the dazzling blazing blooms fall leaving a sensational lush carpet of red on green.
Smooth grey bark our Southern Tree Agamas (English: Blue-headed lizards/Acanthocercus atricollis - Afrikaans: Bloukoppie/Bloukappie) postpone searching for food, a dominant male in his bright blue breeding colour decides it's time to worship the sun, moving up following the sun, keeping an eye open to impress any females around. You won't see the ladies often, perfectly camouflaged against the bark.
Flamboyant trees decorate the pavements and gardens locally, crowning glory during summer months, mesmerizing brazen red amid gentle soft green against the piercing blue Durban sky.
Summer arrives feeling like a hot wet blanket has been thrown over you every time you venture outside, thank goodness for shaded areas where we are able to scuttle hiding away from the sun. Lizards are cold blooded animals soaking up the heat, we turn red, see red, tempers range on degree of heat, we moan and groan wishing it was over, all except the enchanting natural beauty that is out in nature. Nature manages to keep it's cool, and ours most days.
Clouds start rolling in, don't hold your breath sometimes they disappear, on occasion with great passion loaded electrical charge we are due for one soon with hot days of late.
Bubbling Summer Sky
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Beautiful photography!
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Looks like such a beautiful day for a walk and those glorious reds really pop out
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Very pretty tree, very messy as well I would not have one on my property.
Ohh yeah they can make such a mess for sure
Such a beautiful post! I love any flowering trees. Thank you for your wonderful photos and lovely writing that accompanies this post! Greetings from Texas, USA!
This tree is very popular in many places around the world, Miami is one place I know where this grows in the USA.
Wednesday Red very nice I have an app that I use picture this it tells all about the flowers it’s fun
Originated in Madagascar, very happy in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world being popular.
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Lovely photos here Lady Joan and even the people up north are suffering in the heat. Over here we have a strong dry wind flowing over the roasting mountains from the East and it hits one right in the throat.
Best is to stay indoors.
Blessings!
A little wind may help here Stephen, the air is still and heat unbearable. Will just have to sit still and wait patiently for some cooler days.
Colorful and pretty Radiant flamboyant trees and it is common flower tree in our country.
Tree is found in so many places around the world, flowering different times of the year depending on region.
The flamboyant flowers are stunning Joan, lovely post and apt colour to show us here, it's been hot hot hot!
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This heat saps your energy, try think about the more pleasurable things.
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Those are amazing colors, @joanstewart. What brilliant reds! Everything is white around me right now, so the color is a sight fire sire eyes! 😁
These trees are quite something, glad it cheered you up.
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Beautiful red flowers Joan. I love how you captured the colourful lizard. 🦎 💕
Definitely his favourite tree.
The trees with flowers are so beautiful! It's nice to see some color for a change when here it's all covered in snow.
Enjoy the snow, soon dramatic change back to Spring, thanks for visiting.
Enjoy the snow, soon
Dramatic change back to Spring,
Thanks for visiting.
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enjoyed walking with you! and what a wonderful, pure beauty lizzy you've got out there... quite a pleasurable contrast to our gloomy snowless fake winter! a non-stop rainy autumn...
Males only so colourful in mating season, dressed to impress!
Soon it will be sunshine again, enjoy the rain knowing everything is enjoying the drink.