Sunday Selections #55

It's Sunday Selections time again!

Time to post photos that have been hiding away in your files, photos that you may have thought would never see the light of day. a tree that you love but thought nobody else would be interested in, for example. Or the one sunset that looks good out of a million sunset photos. Find these shining examples and post them under the Sunday Selections title, then link your post back to Kim at Frog Ponds Rock, because this wonderful idea is hers.
You can use random photos, or choose a themed set, or just put up one single photo.

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My selection today is AGAPANTHUS.
 The garden at the western end of the complex I live in is a veritable sea of blue in the weeks just before Christmas.
Agapanthus as far as the eye can see.  Well, almost, but there is a lot of agapanthus.

Not my favourite flower, but pretty enough to be photo worthy.

The thing I don't like is how the plants can look so messy once the flowers are gone and the leaves begin to die down.

Massed and in full bloom, they can be rather spectacular.

The flowers are gone now, and the bushes have been cut back by the maintenance gardeners. The leaves are still green, so they don't yet have that messy dying down look.

somewhere in my files, I have a macro shot of an agapanthus flower, which shows that the flowers aren't plain blue, they're delicately striped, in a similar fashion to this white plumbago bloom.

Blue plumbagos have the same centre petal stripe, while the stripe in the agapanthus is often a double stripe. 
And I can't find the macro shot, even after a half hour of searching.
I bet I find it when I'm looking for a particular fence photo, or the ham&cheese omelet photo....

Anyway, won't you join us in Sunday Selections?
The rules are above and so very easy.