This is a new agave bloomstalk!
4 hours ago
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Silver Salmon
A beautiful sunset sky and seascape with the outline of the trees
This is a new agave bloomstalk!
This is a new agave bloomstalk!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
A colonial era garden
My work recently took me to a meeting with the Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (I attended the university for both my graduate and post-graduate studies). The Pro Vice Chancellor’s office is in this lovely old colonial building, with thirteen foot ceilings and 8 foot doors.
What is always remarkable about the St Augustine campus of the University is the variety of fabulous tropical trees and plants, and the landscaping around the principal’s office is particularly lovely. The presence and sheer variety of this flora is due to the university’s history: in 1960, the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture became the Faculty of Agriculture of the then University College of the West Indies (now the University of the West Indies).
The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad was the center for postgraduate training in tropical agriculture for the agricultural services of the British Colonial Empire. College reports from 1938 indicate that 159 past students of the College have been appointed to the Colonial Agricultural Service and allied services, in posts in thirty different parts of the British Empire.
Very old frangipani tree
Entrance to Principal's office
tall stately palms
Bromeliads on the tree trunks
What is always remarkable about the St Augustine campus of the University is the variety of fabulous tropical trees and plants, and the landscaping around the principal’s office is particularly lovely. The presence and sheer variety of this flora is due to the university’s history: in 1960, the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture became the Faculty of Agriculture of the then University College of the West Indies (now the University of the West Indies).
The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad was the center for postgraduate training in tropical agriculture for the agricultural services of the British Colonial Empire. College reports from 1938 indicate that 159 past students of the College have been appointed to the Colonial Agricultural Service and allied services, in posts in thirty different parts of the British Empire.
Very old frangipani tree
Entrance to Principal's office
tall stately palms
Bromeliads on the tree trunks
Friday, May 22, 2009
Having fun with my new little pothound, Pott
He came to me totally unexpected-a friend who saw him thought he’d be a good companion for PottRott (as he has turned out to be). Now he's quite a way from an undernourished, 2 pound, flea ridden and patches of hair missing puppy.
He is a most amusing puppy, very full of himself, but extremely self sufficient. Less than a week after I got him I had to travel and so boarded him. Amy said the first night she put him in a crate in a room by himself he screamed and screamed so she had to let him sleep with all the big dogs who were boarding. With his little two pound self he handled all these 100 pound plus dogs-including a male Rottweiler and a part Pittbull, with amazing aplomb.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Blooms Day April 09
I was traveling on the 15th and 16th and did not want to miss another blooms day-so here I am two days late. A lot of blooms after a week of rain and cooler weather.
One of my new plants- a huge lovely red hibiscus
Hot oranges: tecoma elata and Mexican honeysuckle
Euphorbia milli in front of aloe arborescens
in hot pink
A very full bunch of ivory russelia
celestial blooms
Pink Tabebuia in its first bloom for the year
One of my new plants- a huge lovely red hibiscus
Hot oranges: tecoma elata and Mexican honeysuckle
Euphorbia milli in front of aloe arborescens
in hot pink
A very full bunch of ivory russelia
celestial blooms
Pink Tabebuia in its first bloom for the year
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