One of the things people know most about Australia is that it has all kinds of critters that can kill you. I like to regale my workmates with stories of the creatures that were part of my life in Oz: spiders, biting ants, biting flying creatures, snakes, leeches. Sometimes people would tell me that the British Isles do have snakes: the adder. To which I like to retort, “That may be so but Australia has a death adder. Ha ha, we win.”
English flowers, however, are very, very cool. And one of my favourite of the English natives is the snake-head fritillary. And if you’ve never seen a snake in your life, I guess its patterning looks a bit snake-like.
Snake head fritillary, Exbury Gardens, April 2010. (Photo taken with the Fuji S9600, to demonstrate I still love it despite owning the G11)
This is the only fritillary I have seen in real life and I guess I may not be seeing any more as I will be departing these verdant shores ‘ere winter arrives. These bloom in early Spring and they are already gone now.
Unique Schmuck 
Hello Oanh 🙂 I’m always amazed by your gorgeous floral portraits. But I think I will skip if you start photographing death adders and such. To answer your question about the yellow-orange flower, it’s a ranunculus. And odd single that folds up its petals in the night and was getting ready to open in the morning sun.
You need not worry, nikkipolani as I never see snakes etc – they move away from me too quickly. This is why I photograph flowers: they don’t run/slither away…
I do like ranunculus – more used to seeing them closed than open, however!
The flower reminds me of hellebores. I think that’s more common in England?
Where are you off to next?
wandering chopsticks –
I had to google “hellebore” to check out what they were 🙂 They are more common, I think, as they regularly appear in gardens. They seem more open and less bud like? But lovely, just the same.
Ultimately, back to Aus, but travelling around a bit beforehand.