These 2 are from Mum’s garden. I couldn’t help so offered to ask here.

First one is Billbergia nutans – one of the bromeliad family also known as Queen’s Tears.
Sorry, am having a nana moment on the second one. :O

These 2 are from Mum’s garden. I couldn’t help so offered to ask here.
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Don’t know what they are, but they are stunning:)

Thankyou! I have emailed the link to my sister , where Mum is for a few days so they can check in for updates.:)

Oh, the plants are growing at Tweed Heads, on the East coast NSW/QLD border – I should have said with the first post.

eucaris lilly I think(sp)

Spot on Thee, thanks! That is what Mum thought.

Family: Amaryllidaceae (am-uh-ril-id-AY-see-ay) (Info)
Genus: Eucharis (YOO-kuh-riss) (Info)
Species: grandiflora (gran-dih-FLOR-uh) (Info)

Synonym:Eucharis amazonica

Well done

hortfurball said:

First one is Billbergia nutans – one of the bromeliad family also known as Queen’s Tears.
Sorry, am having a nana moment on the second one. :O

Queens Tears usually has smaller flowers but it may be one of her hybrids.

bubba louie said:

hortfurball said:

First one is Billbergia nutans – one of the bromeliad family also known as Queen’s Tears.
Sorry, am having a nana moment on the second one. :O

Queens Tears usually has smaller flowers but it may be one of her hybrids.

I thought that too at first, but on closer inspection I decided it’s just the camera angle of that shot, and the bracts are overlapping rather than fully open.

Hi all! :D

I decided it’s just the camera angle of that shot

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The camera angle could well have been a bit odd! The flowering stalks came out of opposite sides and I had Mum hold up a compost bin lid behind it for a plain background – the depth of field control is something that I miss in the compact digital after so many years with SLR (film) camera!