Knowing that I can bring that kind of joy into the lives of others increases my own joy in my life.

Pretty!

Thank you for sharing this day brightener!

The sun barely came out today! BLEAH.

It's a feast of color and the berries look scrumptious. You live near a sensational Farmers Market. Thank you for sharing the photos with us.

well, why don't I just do an image search!?

Here are the results:

Metrosideros collina 'Spring Fire' - 'ohi'a lehua

Read about it.

How clever of you to do an image search! There's a wealth of information in your link. I am truly indebted to you!

They just started blooming this week and I thought the flowers were so gorgeous.

Again, I thank you!

This post solved an indentification problem for me. I have one of those trees in my yard and no-one knew what it was. I came to post the orange fungus and noticed Peggy's wonderful post.

It seems there is a variant found in the South Pacific; Cook Islands and Rarotonga and it was heavily promoted by plant nurseries in the past. I guess that's why one ended up in my garden. I've lived here for just over a year and was gobsmacked when it flowered last summer. It was truly magnificent and fills up with birds, esp. parrots and little ringtail possums. My dogs sits and stares into it on dark, summer nights, watching the copious wildlife.

So once again, thank you for the identification.

Can’t wait to tell that one to my fellow gardeners!

You are so lucky to have that tree! We have an effort going on now to find unusual, “showy” varieties.

To post some pix in summer, when it's in flower.

I have three large cans of whipped cream in the garage fridge. Send me 10lbs of the red raspberries,... ten pounds of the black berries,.. and 20 pounds of the okra,... that mixed with onions and lamb makes a nice main dish. The rest is dessert. Oh and a bouquet of flowers for the dinner table would dress up the eating area.

I have DoorDash,... just put the charges on my account.

... how did that red raspberry get into the photo with the black raspberries?

Did it wander over there on its own to stop by and say hello to its cousins ?

Shouldn't one black raspberry be placed in the bin with the red raspberries. For equal time and external exposure away from the family setting ?

The berries do occasionally fall out of their baskets and this result shows up!

If I had thought of the other combo, I would have done it and gotten you a slightly different photo!

I figured my little alternate scenario might make you smirk & giggle.

The black raspberries are not raspberries at all. They are.... blackberries, a different plant. Lovely to eat but incredibly tough and thorny stems.

I almost wish I could do as you ask.

I'm lucky that way.

I can almost hear the flowers and various veggies saying "Take My photo, please!"

Digital makes it easy.

Do you know any more about the tree whose flowers are in the first photo?

I have a similar flowering tree in my yard, which is not in flower right now - winter. I can't identify it.

I'm sure it's a member of the Eucalypts (big, big family) and I thought maybe an angophora but the flowers don't seem right. I corralled the local plant expert and she doesn't know it, but suggested it may be from a lot further north. The leaves grow not in a herringbone pattern, but in pairs opposite each other which I think I can discern in the photo.

It flowers in summer and has long thin filaments of air roots hanging down. It would explain a lot if it's not even an Aussie tree. TIA

Check out NJCher's post above; she has a link that describes just what that tree/shrub is. She's in post #6!

Please forgive my delay! I had to get my moon shot posted first.

Thanks, I'll check out her post.