Winter Blooms on Maui

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It might be winter in Hawaii between November and April, but the beautiful flowers blooming in Maui’s gardens seem not to notice. With an average daytime temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and good winter rainfalls, the brilliantly coloured tropical plants flourish.

Some hibiscus flowers are almost as large as dinner plates,

but bougainvillea hide their tiny white blossoms amidst the new growth of colourful leaf bracts.

Garden beds overflow with delicate exotic flowers,

Plumbago

Bird of Paradise

Spider lily

Ginger

and you’ll need to look up to see the blooms on the frangipanis and African tulip trees.

Frangipani

African tulip tree

Some tropical plants bear delicious fruit in the winter months.

Pandanus fruit

Coconuts

Star fruit

Bananas

Monstera deliciosa

While other parts of the northern hemisphere shiver through more typical wintery conditions, on Maui the plants think it’s always summer!

Visit the earth laughs in flowers to see more winter gardens in Jude’s Garden Photography Challenge