Dutchman's Pipe

This year, I looked for the Dutchman's Pipe flowers, and now I understand how I could have missed them the first year I went to the flower show. Last year, they were so obvious!

Supposedly the flowers look like the old style of pipes used in Holland, but to me, they look like hatchling dragons, or aliens.

I love the colour and pattern of the red part of the flower,

but the green part is a bit unsettling.

Dutchman's Pipe

One whole side of the greenhouse was covered with a vine called Dutchman's pipe.

It's not winter-hardy here, so I have never seen it before.

I think the flowers, when they are in this stage, look like hatchling dragons, or aliens of some sort.