While most of my posts feature pics of color saturated flowers or strong architectural plants, I do appreciate the soft, subtle beauty of these wild grasses and acacia that came up with the recent rains.
Daylilies 2009-Grand Finale
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Chamonix from neighbors Mae and Mickey. Radiant Greeting from Mae and Mickey
Chicago Brave from Mae and Mickey. Ida’s Magic from Sunshine Hollow. Black
Pri...
The Blue Dawn Flower
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The Blue Dawn flower/Ipomoea indica is also known as the Ocean
blue Morning Glory or Blue Morning Glory. Although its origin
is uncertain it has spread thr...
Secret Life of Letter Boxes
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Everything seems to be perfectly normal. Garden is opulent and because of enormous rains since 2 months I can hear it growing, cats are happy and well, birds...
July 11 garden
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Every day I check for the presence of my garden companion. Every day he gets a little bigger. We're going with anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon).There we...
"Little n" Nasturtiums
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I’m not sure how a few pictures of nasturtium growing in the vegetable garden and the idea to write a simple post about how easy this plant is to grow turned...
SOS Who are you? Can I grow you?
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I was in Illinois attending my daughter's graduation in May and I took a
stroll through the campus with my daughter. She was pointing out where she
att...
Rain drops bring Green Visitor!
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One can never trust the weatherman! At first the forecast was of normal
monsoons, then they modified it to a delayed but normal monsoon, and now it
is dela...
Congratulations Elinor!
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Idag är det min älskade dotters namnsdag. Vi brukar fira med namnsdagstårta,
men i år befinner hon sig i Stockholm, så jag firar henne här istället. Och
va...
Take Ten: Q and A with Panayoti Kelaidis
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We’re delighted that Panayoti Kelaidis, the Senior Curator and Director of
Outreach at Denver Botanic Gardens, is the interviewee for this month’s Take
Te...
Blackcurrants
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I am finding it difficult to keep up with the soft fruit picking at the
moment. I go out almost every day and find something has ripened over the
past 24ho...
Exchanging More Turf for Plants: Update
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This post was originally published on Wednesday, July 8. An update was added at the bottom of the post on Friday, July 10. Thank you for following along.If y...
Through the garden gate
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High and Low - Too soon to tell I cannot remember the last July which started with such lushness in the garden and no brown patches in the lawn. That is the ...
Oprah's cinnamon-cherry ice cream
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Cinnamon-cherry ice cream, originally uploaded by Rubber Slippers In Italy.
I knew it would be hard to top that other Oprah recipe since I go for the
unus...
Bamboo muhly or Mexican weeping bamboo? Both!
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Although its stems and feathery leaves resemble bamboo, bamboo muhly
(Muhlenbergia dumosa ) is a 4-to-5-ft-tall clumping grass native to Arizona.
I use it ...
Dog days of summer
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Pictures from the garden after it rained.
The dog days of summer are here, hot, muggy and humid. This week we had the
hottest days of this summer so far. E...
Da Man...Maxwell
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When I was in college in New Jersey I absolutely loved myself some Maxwell.
After an absence of seven years, how happy am I that he is back. Check out
hi...
GGW Picture This Photo Contest: Flowering Trees
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My entry into Gardening Gone Wild’s July photo contest: Salix sachalinensis
‘Sekka’ (Salix udensis ‘Sekka’) Larger image The contest made me realize
that I...
Mrs. Rufous Comes A-Callin’
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isn’t she just as glamourous as all get out? For months I have been like
a cat on the prowl, stalking my garden for the colorful birds that twitter
and...
Tomorrow is Another (Garden) Day
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Yes, the weather is hot and it's very dry. Yes, we could be heading to the kind of historic drought that gripped Central Texas in the 1950's. At my house the...
Heatwave
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Lately we've been experiencing aWell, what passes for it in this neck of the woods, but pretty hot it has been and still is.45 C (113 F), baby! Granted, that...
Blues and Yellows…
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..make fine bed fellows. I realized this gardening season, that I am
really attracted to the combination of blue and yellow, whether it be in
foliage or ...
I think this post is mostly filler
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One day I’ll get back to posting regularly. Maybe that day will be
in Ramadan (the month of fasting) which starts some time next month. After
all, it’s a g...
Suivez-moi sur Tumblr !/ Follow me on Tumblr !
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Mon travail me passionne et me prend, c'est bien normal, beaucoup de temps.
Le blog, j'entends, ce blog, et ses 1965 posts, soit environ 20 000 images
col...
Barleycorn Meditation In June
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*Papaver Rhoeas, Cornfield Poppy*
When I was born, God blessed me with the gift of wonder, which nurtured my
passion for life in general, and the world of ...
Ganga Dhaaraa Teerath
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Last Sunday, I was very lucky to experience a sacred river festival celebrated by the Hindu organisation Hindu Prachar Kendra called the Ganga Dhaaraa Teerat...
Got to get ourselves back to the garden
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Proverbial Spanish wisdom is that 'more grows in the garden than the
gardener sows'.
As the head of the seeds and weeds department on our Finca I have retu...
Spring memories & Pasqueflowers
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Sometimes a garden's greatest solace lies in the place it holds in our
memory. At other times, the value of a garden resides not in our thoughts
about the ...
GBDW The Many Incarnations of The Pond
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The time has come for the Garden Blogger's Design Workshop story sponsored
by the kids over at Gardening Gone Wild , the story of the Faire Garden
Pond. T...
I'm an “island girl” born and living in the Caribbean. I love to travel, garden, love art and music and of course the beach. I also enjoy cooking, especially with my own grown herbs and farmers market produce. My job in international development takes me to different countries of the world and that’s what I consider the best thing about my career: getting to meet and become friends with so many wonderful people and getting to experience different countries and cultures. My blogs are Tropical Travels http://tropicalscenes.blogspot.com/ and A Caribbean Garden http://caribbeangarden.blogspot.com/
2 comments:
Happy SW Nicole; I love the wispy grasses too caressed by the wind and showing off against the sky.
We had quite a bit of wind here today. I also took pictures of the grasses swaying.
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