Pretty ^^^

Our ornamental ginger is throwing some flowers.

These are a little bigger than a tennis ball, on a 3 ft stalk.

We have forms of ornamental ginger here too but the flowers are more cone like.

There are probably a gazillion gingers.

A totally different ginger (just found this one hidden behind a leaf), with a Heliconia in the background.

Beautiful

This is a crab-claw Heliconia, pretty even before it opens.

The green ant on the tip is a bit over 1/2 inch long, they're nasty, nomadic meat eaters and their bums taste of lemon.

I try really hard not to go around tasting bums. :p

The ants only live up here in the tropics. Aboriginal kids used to eat the ant tails as a kind of flavour burst. You can smell the lemon when you crush them. Nasty rotten things they are. They colonise a plant, pulling leaves together to form a nest. A new generation is hatched and then they move on.

The crab-claw and the ginger have opened.

Also, a confrontation between a grren ant and a native stingless bee.

So lovely.