This vibrant lily in Keirunga Gardens, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, symbolises summer in that part of my country so accurately. Hot colours for the intense heat (33C) and the dynamic light of summer there.
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It does look intensely hot, like an ember waiting to burst in to flame.
It was scorching hot in the spot where this lily bed was planted.