What are these NZ flowers please?

What are these NZ flowers please?


1. Puya Alpestris from South America.
2. Echium Vulgare - roadside weed.
3. Pachstachys lutea (some people also call it lollipop plant) from Peru.

Thank you all very much for your help. Yes I visited NZ earlier this year and have got 100's of plant photos but only these 3 without a name!

 

#2 is Echium vulgare (Viper's Bugloss), an introduced weed in NZ (from Britain!)

 

Wow, the first ones colour!
Second one is common on roadsides Echium vulgare as Micheal mentioned.
third one, also a beauty, no idea.
Were you visiting there recently?

 

Number 2 looks like a species of Puya, #3 is Pachystacys aurea or yellow candle. I don't think either plant is native to N.Z.

 

I think mplant means #1 is puya, I just looked it up, its Puya Alpestris. From South America.
#3 I looked up is Pachstachys lutea ( some people also call it lollipop plant) from Peru.

mplant, your really good at ID's!

 

Thanks for sorting that out Carol. I posted my reply too quickly and my memory swapped aurea for lutea.

 

Thank you all very much for your help.