Where in the World?

 It's contest time! Do you recognize this plant?  Then maybe you can guess where I've been for the last few weeks. (Sorry bloggers while traveling I was able to read your wonderful posts but not comment by iPhone.)  Perhaps with a little detective work on the internet you can make a reasonable guess and win some great prizes from that area.  The challenge is to figure out the area (city and country) where these plants are growing.  If you can identify the plants it will help you to figure out the place.  The first person to correctly identify the city and country and post it in a comment to this post, will win the prizes.  You will have to send your mailing address to my email address IF you win so you need to check back to this blog to find out if you did.  Good Luck!