Garden flowers

I would have said that we don't have flowers in our garden however I was outside the other day hanging out some washing and actually looked around the garden.

Four of our trees or shrubs had flowers.
First one is what we call Max's tree. When we came back to Queensland to live we bought our little dog with us. I had been out with a group of brownies doing some community work and they found a small dog who had been dumped. She was in a cane basket between a railway line and a busy road. Poor thing looked half starved and scared. We took her home put notices around and when no one claimed her, she stayed with us.

She spent fifteen years with us and of course she moved with us but the heat was too much for her and we had to make the decision to have her put down. Warren brought her home from the vets and we had bought a tree with no name on it and that is where Max is, hence Max's tree. It is a lovely tree and has yellow flowers each year. The parrots love it.

Then I noticed that there were some others out in flower.

This was the first tree we planted in our garden seventeen years ago, my how time flies. It has been flowering for some weeks and is coming to the last. Funny that we put another one of these trees in the front yard about three years after this one but it never did any good, think it was a drought by then and we ended up taking it out.

Finally there is this one with the Bougainvilla flowering behind it. 

We built a vegetable patch but veggies never did any good there. Before they built the house, apparently there was a huge tree in that area and it was poisioned. We assume that there is still some residue there as plants seemed to be doing well and then suddenly died, now it is in too much shade to try to grow anything. Lucy likes to lay in it when it's hot.