There are several African Tulip Trees (Wikipedia Link) in Roca Verde which I have highlighted before with their bright orange flowers, but the one on the hill above me is such a bright spot, it is hard to not keep featuring it! 🙂 Another sign that summer is beginning.
Continue reading “African Tulip Tree”Zooming in on Color
I usually use my 600mm zoom lens to zoom in on a bird far away, but with no birds around this morning I was attracted by the bright red or red-orange blooms of the African Tulip Tree on the hill above me. Here’s 3 levels of zooming, 2 with my cell phone and one with the Canon camera and 600mm lens.
This is not a native tree to Costa Rica but an import from Africa that grows very well here and adds a lot of color. There is another one by the entrance gate to our development. Read about them at Wikipedia, or Pacific Horticulture Society, or the Gardening Know How website among many other online articles on this interesting tree which evidently will grow in the warmer climates of the southern states. .
And in my Flora & Forest gallery:
A better shot 3 years ago of neighbor’s tree
Close-up of the one at front gate
Or see Three Other Blog Posts on the African Tulip Tree – I must like it to write about it so much! 🙂
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness – ignorance, credulity – helps your enjoyment of these things.
🙂
¡Pura Vida!
Colorful Neighbors
On the hill above my little casita are blooming some brilliant orange African Tulip Trees (an immigrant or invasive species?) and above those the ever-present pink-to-purple bougainvillea which I see here through the limbs of my Guarumo or Cecropia tree. Having “colorful neighbors” can be a plus! And colorful flowers add to my happiness! 🙂
Just living is not enough…
one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen
Flowers help boost happiness and I was just introduced to a new website that you might want to check out: Garden & Happy for a little boost in your happiness, try gardening! 🙂
¡Pura Vida!
That Spot of Color is Joy!
And a little closer. |
See my photo gallery: Flora & Forest
From Behind the Big Rock: African Tulip Tree!
From behind the big rock at Roca Verde entrance you see the red-orange flowers of our African Tulip Tree. Atenas, Costa Rica |
African Tulip Tree Zooming in on another tropical tree that blooms for about one month. Atenas, Costa Rica |
I walk about half a mile up a steep hill to Chef Dan’s house 2 or 3 times a week for one of his gourmet meals for dinner. Monday I had Shrimp Alfredo with side salad and Italian bread. Tonight I walked up the hill for Curry Chicken Salad Wrap with side salad and mango chutney. I eat pretty well most of the time to be living in the rainforests of Central America! 🙂
For other blooming trees in Atenas, see my Walking Atenas photo gallery
Or for the whole country, see my larger Flora & Forest photo gallery
Trees Blooming Today
African Tulip Tree Also called Flame of the Forest and Fountain Tree At a neighbor’s house on the hill above me. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
Yellow Bell Tree I have many of these around my house & just starting to bloom. Roca Verde, Atenas, Costa Rica |
My photo gallery FLORA & FORESTS