Glenwood Drive, Croydon

Glenwood Drive, Croydon

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Posted 2022-09-26 by Neil Follettfollow
Spring brings out the flowers and the flowers bring out the bees giving a close-up look at nature.


A patch of brilliant clivias started this walk on a bright note.


Glenwood Drive is a no through road running off Mt. Dandenong Road.


Many different, appropriately named, three colour harlequin flowers are appearing in many gardens, as are trees in blossom. Cherry blossom and crab apple were two.


Camellias were abundant and as usual, most colourful with masses of flowers.


Freesias were popping up in almost every garden as they are prolific in spreading into nearby gardens. Daisies are also prolific spreaders with a patch in front of a picket fence that looked very attractive with a couple of bright gazanias adding extra colour. A patch of paper daisies added more colour.








Glenwood Drive is only a meandering 500 metres in length but a large grassy park can be accessed from two points giving an almost circular walk. The park has a small play area and several trees, where I photographed a noisy miner and a pair of colourful rainbow lorikeets.




Bacopa is a creeping herb with a mass of small purple flowers. Spring star and wallflowers were another pair of low growing colourful flowers.




Only a couple of walkers were seen. One was taking a shortcut through the park and another was walking his black labrador dog.


The bright yellow broom tree stood out as did several magnolias. A large protea bush was at its flowering peak.




A raven and a couple of magpies were the only other birds seen, although a metal flamingo and a stork were residents in two gardens.




A Pride of Madeira bush and a rosemary plant exhibited more sedate colours, unlike the rhododendron, pigface and rock rose.




One tree trunk was decorated with a face while another protruded through a paling fence. It is rewarding to see man-made structures 'giving way' to nature. An almost common sight is garden beds surrounding trees.


A plant festooned archway with a picket gate was an interesting entrance to one garden. A wheelbarrow was a plant holder in retirement. Only one garden lamp was seen and a cement urn was spied in another.




Many grevilleas were in flower as was a jasmine and a single azalea bush.






Several bluebells a red carnation a lovely fuchsia rounded out a visual floral feast.


This street would have more flowers per metre than any I've walked.





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