Ooooooh!!! What a gorgeous picture!

Sherry

Thanks Sherry!

That is beautiful! For the benefit of us northerners, what exactly is that bottlebrush? Do you know the scientific name? Not that I expect to be able to grow it here.
Liz

Liz,
The scientic name is Callistemon. They grow as a shrub/small tree up to 15' tall, hardy in zones (8) 9-11. I have 3 at various ages but they are all growing as multi-stemmed shrubs. Mine bloom off and on from May through September.
Butterflies and hummers absolutely love it. When we moved down from Ohio 5 years ago, I saw these blooming and fell in love. I ran out and grabbed some :)

Liz,
Here's a link to a post that has some pics I took last August of a giant swallowtail on a bottlebrush.
Rhonda

Here is a link that might be useful: Giant swallowtail on bottlebrush

Lovely pic, Sherry.
I miss my GFs.

Absolutely gorgeous photo. Wow! Awesome.
Angie

Angie, the gulf frit in the picture is a male.

I love the bottlebrush you see so much in Florida! It's from Australia, as I recall? It's an entirely different plant from our white bottlebrush, which is a buckeye -

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Sherry

Thanks Angie :)
Sherry I love that plant your tiger is on! We had Buckeyes in Ohio (trees as well as football) and I miss them here. I bought a red buckeye that is a much smaller tree that is supposed to do well here, but it hasn't grown an inch in 3 years and struggles constantly.