The spectacular flower here at the moment is a shrub called Euphorbia, one of the group that includes poinsettias. It is a shrub about six to eight feet high and up to ten feet in diameter, and it is covered by a mass of white bracts that look like flowers. Superb, and if I didn't have a policy of planting only Australian native plants, I'd have a couple of them (I think euphorbia comes frm Madagascar or some such place).