tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74669320866046750222024-03-13T17:16:50.488+10:00Lavender and Vanilla; Friends of the GardensLavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-77510273553344666942020-05-09T18:46:00.002+10:002020-09-23T12:10:26.328+10:00May 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;"> WOW, Already the 9. of May. Where is the time hiding? Quickly a few pictures in case the days slide away as fast as in the past!</span></div>
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Snowflakes have already started to flower.<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Euphorbia leucocephala.</span></div>
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Euphorbias are well known for their eye-catching flowers. This Euphorbia has a pleasant fragrance. </div>
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Marie Van Houtte an old french rose.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "montserrat" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">'Marie van Houtte' has large, globular flowers of lemon yellow, darker in the centre, with pinkish lilac suffusing the tips of the petals. Its dark, shiny and, evergreen foliage is an excellent foil to the light flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "montserrat" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The trees tops were heaven for butterflies and other insects. Swarms of Lorikeets would settle on top, suddenly take off, fly very fast around the house and settle back onto the treetop to feed some more of the nectar.</span><br />
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Saritaea Magnifica, Glow vine.<br />
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A climber native to South America. It is propagated by cuttings. It is a very prolific grower. Mine has climbed up a Bull Bay Magnolia tree.<br />
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Summer harvest; Pitaya and Soursop. Delectable fruit.<br />
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Pawpaws, hopefully, they<br />
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Busy Lizzy found a secret source of food and water.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-4547187202722433642020-02-25T18:33:00.000+10:002020-05-09T18:02:40.708+10:00February 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was a very, very, very, and much more, a dry summer, no rain to ease the heat and the humidity. Do I not remember or was it really the most unpleasant summer in many, many years?</div>
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Now we had rain, so much better. Still hot and humid but autumn is on the way and will ease the humidity and heat.</div>
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A very beautiful Tibouchina in full regalia. This is the exact colour. </div>
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Soursop tree bears many fruits. Sometimes even in winter, the fruit grows big but stays hard and inedible in the cold season.</div>
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After not making a peep all summer, Dahlias are back now flowering and lush. </div>
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Heliconia "Christmas" has reached its final stage of flowering.<br />
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Old style Gerbera, beautiful and tough as old boots. The new hybrids I planted were not successful in these conditions here. These white ones grow and flower for many years.<br />
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Native Syzygium Wilsonii has no problems either. Always look forward to its glorious powder puffs. I grow many of these in my bush garden.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-66913063791081052042019-09-02T11:44:00.001+10:002019-09-30T19:29:20.174+10:00September, Spring has sprung.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Succulent sedum species.</div>
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Dianthus barbatus/ Sweet William.<br />
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Salvia attraction for bees and butterflies.<br />
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Geranium, I love them.<br />
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Viola tricolor, I welcome the selfseeders every spring.<br />
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Did you know that Lantana flowers have a wonderful perfume?<br />
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Fiji Pink stands out in the garden.<br />
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A hardy succulent pot plant.<br />
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Little things can make your heart sing...<br />
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....like perfumed Orange flowers, promising juicy Oranges next autumn/winter.<br />
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30/09/2019<br />
Oh well, already the last day in September, just time for an other picture and then let's rush into October. Still very dry.<br />
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I received delightful orchids for my birthday.<br />
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Delightful bells from the Partridge Aloe.<br />
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Pruned this figtree otherwise the branches grow into the sky! Can't wait for the figs, big and juicy.<br />
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I have harvested the last Mandarins and Oranges. I have made some Marmalade and must make a few glasses more; Quick and easy in the Thermomix.</div>
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In the time of abundance of Oranges I like to use them in cakes as well. Like the spanish Almond and Orange cake. You cook 2 oranges until soft and mix the pulp inclusive rind with ground Amonds, sugar and eggs. No flour. It is rich and delicious. </div>
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I like also a very easy, simple one made with 3 eggs, 100g butter, 120g sugar 1 big orange, juice,</div>
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130g self rising flour. The batter is very wet but rises beautifully 180 C until baked, test with a skewer around 45 minutes.</div>
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A similar one but with added ground walnuts. I never use as much sugar as stated in the recipes as it would be to sweet for me.</div>
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This is the simple one without added nuts.</div>
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I love to cook. I always cook from scratch, love to go into the vegetable garden to collect fresh vegetabeles. 😉</div>
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My favourites to cook are Moussaka, and Lasagna and so much more.</div>
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...and aren't we all moved by light? Alumine motus.</div>
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A very healthy looking Potato plant.<br />
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I love Fennel, such a wonderful tasting vegetable. These are the bulbs not the herb.<br />
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Beetroot is very tasty as salad or as vegetable.<br />
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Bees love this ancient China rose "Old Blush" two bees are burying deep into the flower to get the pollen and the nectar.<br />
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Love the lanky, tall growing old French Rose "Jeanne Ducher."<br />
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Les roses sont sublime.<br />
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Sometimes we find brittle, faded pressed rose petals between the pages of a book, as a lovely surprise, wondering who has put the rose between the pages.<br />
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Bye, bye Augustus, it was great to see you.<br />
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Top, African daisies love the sun and will flower for a while, Old french rose General Galieni will grow and flower into summer until it is getting to uncomfortable and then will sleep and wait ...<br />
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I never forget my first garden in Australia. A trial of hope and errors. Ts<br />
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Winter is the time to enjoy Camellias.<br />
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Wandering around the garden.<br />
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You are never closer to nature then in your own garden. You learn to accept the moods and uncertainty of nature. Sometimes kind and beautiful, but also cruel and devastating. Nothing beats a walk in the garden on a beautiful, early morning. Ts<br />
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Camellia are the show offs in Winter.<br />
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I replanted many hanging baskets with hardy, simple succulents, as they are much easier to maintain in the hot summer month. Last summer was very hot and dry and I was struggling to keep all the pots and baskets watered. This will make it much easier.<br />
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This one shares a pot with a geranium.<br />
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A wall pot, this one gets very hot in summer, this succulent does not mind.<br />
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Tillandsia likes to grow on certain native trees. This one loves the Clarence river Baeckia, a lovely weeping small tree.<br />
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As we only live once, we better make the best of it. Ts<br />
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Last day July;<br />
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Harvest;<br />
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Camellia Pink gold.<br />
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Poinsettia winter colours are fading now to a pretty pink-wash look.<br />
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I better let July fade away as well, looking forward to August the last month of winter.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-20327757835104126262019-06-03T17:02:00.001+10:002019-06-19T17:31:32.200+10:00My peaceful Garden; <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The lovely french rose Perle D'or visited by the tiny native bees (Tetragonula bees) I have two hives on the wall of the house. These tiny bees are stingless.</div>
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Hoya cumingiana sits in this tiny pot since 30 years. Flowers profusely in its time.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.” </span><br />
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After quite a long absence from blogging I had to have, I am back, maybe with new vigour, may be...The garden in May looks lush. Summer 2018/19 was very dry and uninspiring.<br />
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The kitchengarden provides Basil to make a tasty Pesto. I used for this one Tasmanian walnuts instead of Pine nuts.</div>
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We do not get snow but we still get Snowflakes. Euphorpia leucocephala<br />
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A highlight every autumn are the Tree-dahlia flowers winking from<br />
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The earliest very large Mandarins.<br />
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Daily native visitors in the garden.<br />
Wonga Pigeons and the smaller crested Pigeons and the ever so naughty, lively rainbow lorikeets.<br />
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Simples; recycling at its best. Kintsugi (Japanese) embraces imperfection<br />
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Leptospermum, abundance of flowers.</div>
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Orange Blossoms, the garden is perfumed, as soon as the last fruit has been harvested the tree gets back to produce these sweetly scented flowers and the next wonderful crops.<br />
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It was time to get out of hibernation and plant some vegetables, as green smoothies are a must have every day. Also beetroot smoothies are on the menu every second day. </div>
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Green smoothie, generally I add what I grow in my garden, peppermint, Tarragon, Rosemary cucumber if ready to use, leaves of anything leafy growing in the garden, like Broccoli leaves, lettuce, beetroot leaves, cabbage etc plus Banana, or apple, lemon when I have some! A teaspoon of honey and a tiny bit of salt, add water or milk or anything preferred.<br />
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Beetroot smoothie similar just add a whole, small beetroot or half a beetroot plus half an apple and some beetroot leaves, herbs and honey.<br />
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The kitchen garden is quietly producing...</div>
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The "White House" it is benign, not like the real one!</div>
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Lemongrass; Neighbour's horse hangs over the fence to nibble on it.</div>
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Some of the Valencia oranges end up as Marmalade. Made in the Thermomix 5 is quick, easy and makes a very nice marmalade.</div>
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Next task, pruning and fertilizing the roses.</div>
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6/07/2018<br />
Heavy rainfall over night. Nearly 60 mm<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">“The rain to the wind said,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">You push and I'll pelt.'</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">They so smote the garden bed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That the flowers actually knelt,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And lay lodged--though not dead.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I know how the flowers felt.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7715.Robert_Frost" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Frost</a><br />
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One row of potato bushes look a little harassed. I dug one plant out to have a look, this morning. I did not expect a crop. Alas here's for a few lunches or dinners.<br />
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..and a little stroll around the garden; a very mild day today. There might be more rain on the way. I am always to lazy to look at the weather patterns. My motto, if it it rains it rains, if it doesn't it doesn't, I can not do anything either way.😏 Just getting a bit dark now. glad did the wash earlier using the sun power on the roof.<br />
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Camellias are always a highlight in winter. They are so self sufficient, glorious flowers and tough as old boots.<br />
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I did not expect this Hibiscus to flower through the cool season. I made a cutting many years ago and it flowers now the second time. I had no name for it, so I called it "Flamenco"<br />
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Bromeliad past flowering, still pretty with its red capsules, maybe seed.<br />
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Billi's and Lulu's resting place and many others never forgotten.</div>
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The common name of Giant Salvia appears to be the most widely used common name is a misnomer as this is actually a member of the Acanthaceae family and the true Salvias are in the mint family or Lamiaceae. </div>
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Hoya cumingiana lives in this tree since 20 years or longer, flowers 2-3 times a year. </div>
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Bobbie enjoys to eat a few of the small leftover tomatoes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">27/06/2018 morning 8.13 AM<br />
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is raining today. June is nearly done and dusted, I felt a bit blog tired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"The Cloud" is a major 1820 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. "The Cloud" was written during late 1819 or early 1820, Originally published: 12 July 1820</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I am the daughter o</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">f Earth and Water</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">And the nursling of the Sky; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I change, but I cannot die. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">For after the rain when with never a stain </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The pavilion of Heaven is bare, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Build up the blue dome of air, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">And out of the caverns of rain, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I arise and unbuild it again. </span><br />
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Boom, crash, my whole blog of this month just disappeared , a flash into thin air or where ever it went. I am blogging since many years but I have never experienced this before. At least to say it is very annoying. I am not sure if I have the Energy to start again for this month. Blogging with Google is not that good anymore lots goes wrong and the technical side is not well maintained.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I will ring Google and ask what happened!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Well, I rang Google, but as usual no time, no answer, just a monitored voice saying:" go away, help yourself, we are busy counting money."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I also send a message that the formatting in the composing site does not work properly and as I have seen in the forums many, many have the same problem and are appealing to Google technicians to rectify it. But, nothing happens! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> I guess it is not all bad but as with everything, as it is and always has been the golden calf takes precedence. I am a cynic and an idealist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Anyway, as I am also an optimist with a soaring spirit I do not give up. Here I go again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yesterday I read In the <b>Science Explorer; </b>maybe plants are farming us by providing oxygen until we ALL eventually decompose and they can consume us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">There are already burial capsules with a seed of a tree we can nourish to grow while we are flying free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Imagine a world without trees, Australia is removing them at a hurried pace like there is no tomorrow, again the golden calf in action. So many native animals lose their home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It isnot Daylily time but love to post some of my favourites. Especially the spiders, their curly-wurly ways, their free spirit is very endearing. All growing along the drive way upper garden.</span><br />
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Rose Perfumed delight, cuttings from last winter are already flowering the third time, stems are still quite thin, planted in my newest adventure, grandly named "Rose Walk" when in deed it is not at all grand, it might become so, one never knows, depending on my energy.<span style="font-size: large;">💪</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Yes, sure even here in the subtropics, April lets the spirits of the Antipodeans soar. </span><br />
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I received this Azalea from a couple who visited here when I was establishing this garden in 1989. Her husband’s name was Rex so I called his wife “Rexona”. Her real name was Dawn, She was a lovely lady.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Purple Salvia "Black knight" and Salvia Madrensis mingle well together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoya flowers many times through the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one makes meter long trailers, sitting in a tiny basket.</span></div>
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The days are getting now rapidly shorter again, this means more time to read and to reflect.<br />
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”<br />
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Small tomatoes grown in the compost scattered on the garden beds. These are already made into pasta sauce.</div>
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I usually make the sauce in the Thermomix. </div>
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Gathered in the kitchen garden; mini capsicums , some I added to a risotto. Basil became a pesto and some was added to the Risotto. A handful of beans, they have a hard time with the heat and humidity. Hopefully it is getting soon a bit cooler. Pitaya or dragon fruit,is lovely especially when chilled before eating.<br />
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Risotto with capsicums and pesto.<br />
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Hanging pot does best with succulents, as it dries out very quickly</div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Never forget to dream, life is so much poorer if you don’t Ts</span></div>
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13/04/2018<br />
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Old Rose, Marie van Houtte. 1871 Tea Rose,nice fragrance.<br />
...and goes with this<br />
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Salvia, not sure which is which😏<br />
..and with this<br />
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Salvia Leucantha<br />
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Buddleja , white summer lilac<br />
....and with this and more growing in the same mix and match garden bed.<br />
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Iceberg Rose<br />
Garden lore<br />
I wonder if there is an other planet where people live and plant flowers? Ts<br />
24/April2018<br />
...and slowly autumn settles to cool nights and mornings.<br />
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'Autumn' my art journal, this might go on a canvas in Acrylics.<br />
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When you live here you get these sort of visitors. They are around and one must accept them and get used to them being around. They are quite placid and if you leave them alone, they are ok. One has to be careful with small pets as this is a Python , not poisonous but very strong and strangles her food.<br />
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on the eastern side of the house.<br />
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Rain and warmth have prompted some daylillies to bloom again.<br />
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Sweet, old french rose Perle d'or.<br />
End of month 30/4/2018<br />
Our life is our book written by us, as every day is a new page and ends at the end of the month. Then we can’t wait for the next month to start a new chapter again. Ts<br />
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Rollinia, Brazilian custard apple, ripening now. They must be golden yellow, fully ripe to harvest. Taste wonderful.</div>
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Small wild Gladioli are lovely to pick<br />
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Old french rose Jeanne Ducher. Roses come into their own now with the humidity and heat gone, cooler days arriving.<br />
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Clerodendrum wallichii 'Bridail veil' a spectacular shrub when in full bloom.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-40424325030270371862018-03-06T17:55:00.003+10:002018-03-31T15:08:02.297+10:00March, lets autumn sing...The first few days of autumn continued the heat and humidity of summer. Last night it seems it broke, the rain came down in buckets, all night long, and today it's raining...raining..<br />
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Lotus leaves in the pond are hearing the call of autumn, preparing themselves for a rest.</div>
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Beautiful autumn colours of this pretty Hibiscus with its intense show of reds and yellows.</div>
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Zephyrantes, Rainlilies.</div>
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A couple of paintings in progress. While humidity and heat were beating down, it was nice sitting under the ceiling fan and paint while humidity and heat of the summer season was prevalent. </div>
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Lovely to gather fruit in the garden, delicious Passion fruit.</div>
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The pleasure of growing<br />
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S. leucantha Pink Velour<br />
I thought I lost this beauty, but luckily I made earlier a cutting which is now flowering. Must remember to make a few more!<br />
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S. Anthony Parker, an autumn flowering S.<br />
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S. Meigan's Magic, flowering from spring into winter when it has its final pruning, to restart in spring again. Its white flowers contrast beautifully with its dark purple calyxes.<br />
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S.Peru Blue, a fantastic intense blue with exotic anthers makes this one a favourite. It grows easily with underground rhizomes, does not mind dry soil.<br />
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Stately and freely flowering S. Madrensis is everyone's favourite. It makes the occasional seedlings with self sowing.<br />
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These are just a few of my collection growing since many years and thriving in my garden.<br />
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Dahlias are doing well at the moment in the upper garden, they like quite a bit of moisture to flourish. At the beginning they had a struggle because it was to dry.<br />
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Last day; 31/03/2018<br />
March went so fast, I am holding on to the last day, but it is slipping ...<br />
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In the spare dry days and sun I dried some herbs to make herb salt. Peppermint, Fennel, Parsley, and Scots bonnet<br />
chillies., I grow in my herb and kitchen garden. I mixed the herbs with pink Himalayan salt. I would like to and I did before, use sea salt. but I do not trust it anymore as the seas are so polluted with plastic and so much more human waste.<br />
I guess humans must go to another evolution to be able to cope with all these chemical waste products swamping food and water. No other animal has polluted the world as humans have. Humans must not be proud of their achievements they are born on nature''s and animals backs. Humans think they are special but in the short time they have been around, have done as much as possible to destroy their own habitats. Humans are a disgusting lot towards Nature and animals.<span style="font-size: x-large;">😢</span><br />
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Booby would love to go and play outside, but the ground is still soaking wet.<br />
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Rainy days.<br />
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Brazilian Trumpet vine, climbs over the Magnolia and on the other side over a Paperbark tree.<br />
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I will now let March slip away and wish you all Happy Easter days.<br />
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As a child Easter was a wonderful time, Sunshine, first time knee socks, new shoes, new dress, colourful eggs, hoping your own were the best and the prettiest, rolling them down a hill to check which egg had the strongest shell. We were not bothered with the churches dogma.<br />
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See you around in April.<br />
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I had a lot of trouble with blogger, I could not get into my blogs anymore despite EM and PW. I hope it is sorted now for good.👿<br />
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February has never been my favoured month. To me it is sort of not here nor there. Summer is on its way out and autumn winks, yet there is not that much difference in the weather, it might still be hot, thunderstorms hopefully, and another sprint of flowers from summer plants. The long waited for rain has arrived and revived the garden.</div>
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Some of the daylilies are making another appearance. This is the lovely "Pure Indulgence" a strong and floriferous daylily.</div>
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Today, enjoying a coffee sitting quietly at the edge of the pond and watching all the small visitors around. Many butterflies flitting past, lovely colours, blue, yellow, some dark with white spots. Dragon flies like ballerinas dancing over the water. Insects, bees are busy and it seems this is a place where one can hear the silence. To have the capacity to enjoy solitude is an inner force. Just now I see my little bar-shouldered dove sitting on the rim of the food bowl, enjoying the sun, lifting her wings. Small momentary observations are precious.</div>
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Little Corellas are sweet birds, welcome to the food bowl.</div>
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New leaves on cycad. Cycadophyta/Cycads, plants with a long fossil history, dinosaurs of the plant world. They typically have a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. </div>
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February is the Month to harvest Mangoes; making Mango chutney and Mango jam for family, friends and myself.<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">😉</span></b></div>
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Bromeliads are a good choice for the subtropical garden, if you do not have a lot of time or do not enjoy a lot of gardening. They are nearly self sufficient. Especially the species which do not grow to fast.<br />
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A glimpse into the garden, after rain nice and fresh again.<br />
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Daylily Daisy Broussard tricked by the rain to flower again.<br />
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Bougainvillea, pretty with variegation.<br />
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Yesterday it was windy to make the big palm leaves sway and rustle.<br />
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China rose "Old blush" still pretty past the prime.<br />
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This early morning I was in the kitchen garden; I have sown<br />
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a row of beetroot and planted spring onions.<br />
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Cucumbers, Zucchii and Aubergines are already growing. Most of the summer crop is finished, the last the pumpkins to go.<br />
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That's it for today see you around next time.🍆🐍 I have a Python in the veg garden.<br />
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TO EPICURUS, PLEASURE MEANT ONE MUST LEAD A LIFE OF RESTFUL CONTEMPLATION, EATING & DRINKING MODERATELY. ONE MUST LIVE WITHOUT ANXIETY, FORGOING THE WANTS & WORRIES OF LIFE.<br />
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It was a very hot week. the beans were growing nicely but have succumbed to the heat, a few are still standing.<br />
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I am harvesting Soursop. they are big between 1-2 kg each, some are a bit smaller. It is not a big tree and I won't let it get to big.<br />
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the fruit is fibrous, delicious and very healthy.<br />
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Soursop Ice cream a tropical delight.<br />
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I use the Thermomix reverse cycle to get the seed out as they are enclosed in small fibrous pockets and quite tedious to get out. With the Thermomix it works well.<br />
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A few excerpts from https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/soursop.html<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">While the flavor is enough to make this a popular fruit, the rich vitamin and nutrient content of the fruit includes </span><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vitamins/health-benefits-of-vitamin-c-or-ascorbic-acid.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="vitamin C">vitamin C</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, </span><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/vitamins/stocking-up-on-vitamin-b-rich-foods.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="vitamin B">vitamin B</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, and a number of antioxidant compounds. The juice from soursop has been </span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304423894900302" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" target="_blank">used </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">topically, while pulverized </span><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/seed-and-nut?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="seeds">seeds</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> and decoctions made of leaves are also popular forms of natural </span><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/home-remedies/home-remedies.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="remedies">remedies</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">. You can also use the leaves and pulverized seeds to brew a powerful </span><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/tea.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; font-family: "Open Sans", open-sans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="tea">tea</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, which also has a number of impressive effects on the human body.</span><br />
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The anti-parasitic nature of soursop has made it a popular treatment in many of the rural areas of Latin and South America, particularly in areas where parasitic infections are more common. By brewing a tea <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4519917/" rel="external nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" target="_blank">from </a>the leaves of the fruit, you can cleanse your gut and ensure that your gastrointestinal system is <a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/running.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=smartlinks" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1898ce; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s;" title="running">running</a> smoothly...and so much more. </div>
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https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/soursop.html<br />
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28/02/2018<br />
Last day in February. We had very hot and humid days, rain was good, easier to get into autumn, as vegetable planting starts more seriously in March through April.<br />
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Today I have harvested again 2 big Soursops, the last for a while. 2 big ones have fallen down and were rotten when I found them, as it was raining heavily and I did not go up to the kitchen garden where the tree grows.<br />
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I can also harvest lots of Passion fruit now. Sweet and delicious.<br />
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I<span style="font-size: large;"> think I give everything a miss now and I see you again in March.</span><br />
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My favourite time of the day when the early morning sun hits the garden.<br />
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Happy Morning, happy day. Ts<br />
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Morning is my favoured time because the whole day is still a Mystery,Ts<br />
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Sorry, I can not reply to comments. I have alerted Google but I guess I wait in vain, nothing has been done despite sending feedback a few times. I have tried again the replies disappear. I have seen many other bloggers have the same problem.<br />
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<b>China Rose, Old Blush, also called Parson's Pink. Bees love them, always swarming with bees. This rose is flowering through summer, winter, spring and autumn. It is a simple rose but amazing, very beautiful. The first rose from China introduced to Europe to create Tea-roses. Probably cultivated in China before the 10th century. </b></div>
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13/01/2018<br />
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Slowly moving and getting used to a new year. As usual this time of year it is hot and humid around 34 - 35 C<br />
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The kitchen garden produces now Melons and Pumpkins, later also sweet potatoes. Early mornings are reserved for the kitchen garden to keep it tidy and watered.<br />
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That's I there wading through the pumpkin leaves.<br />
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Pumpkins are classified as fruit not as vegetable. Aren't they just absolutely marvellous?<br />
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Looking over to the neighbour's property, beautiful native tree flowering now. I think this is <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Buckinghamia celsissima, commonly known as the ivory curl. A species of trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. They grow naturally only in the wet tropics rainforests areas of north eastern Queensland, Australia.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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Dwarf Dahlia are flowering now on the upper Terrace gardens where the Kitchen garden is located.<br />
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Catharantus are pretty toughies, they do not need special coaxing to look so friendly and pink<br />
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The pretty old rose Amelia Anderson. A Bishop's Lodge Rose. The old roses are making buds again now. As small vases I use empty perfume bottles. Generally they are so pretty and well made that it is a shame just to discard them. I take off the spray thingy which sometimes can be a pain in the butt to do, as it generally does not come off easily.<br />
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28/01/2018<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">“Hope</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">Whispering 'it will be happier'...” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; text-align: left;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13638502.Alfred_Tennyson" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Alfred Tennyson</a></span></b><br />
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It seems it was a long month, hot and dry;<br />
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The garden looks fairly dry, looking forward to some rain. A few spits today.<br />
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Waterlilies are flowering well now.<br />
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Mussaenda has no problem with dryness.<br />
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Grevillias do not mind it either, Australian natives are used to dryness.<br />
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Even the bog garden dried out and I had to water the water hungry, liefy plants.<br />
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Daisy kind of flowers, as the name suggests pretty, straight forward no glam. great for the dry garden, no fuss no drama with these plants from South Africa.<br />
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The first page of the new year has already some scribbles, little notes of another beginning, still shrouded in cobwebs sticky and opaque, waiting for the time to move forward, today, tomorrow...Ts<br />
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Every day this lizard makes a visit from the wild garden. Goes for a swim in the pond.<br />
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I do enjoy the Dahlias, they have suffered in the hot and dry. Now after some rain they are fine again.<br />
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Good bye Lulu, you were a favourite visitor. Lulu has joined her friends over the rainbow and rests in the garden. She was 13 Years old.<br />
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The sentence is spoken there is no return 31 days have flown the roost, good, bad or wonderful it does not matter anymore. The first 31 days of the new year are gone, have already become part of that little piece of sky you may see from a quick, backward glance.. ..<br />
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<i><b>Roses look so festive when festooned with diamonds.</b></i><br />
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<i>...hundreds or thousands ore more drops ...I have never counted them... adorn the petals for now...</i><br />
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<i>The famous 'Christmas' plant Poinsettia grows here to a big shrub and flowers in Winter. It it is very showy with its red leaves which are not the actual flowers. The small flowers are just visible in the middle of the colourful leaves.</i><br />
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<i>Mine need to be pruned now. They could be left to grow as a small tree, but may look sometimes a bit straggly. </i><br />
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<i>Like this one.</i><br />
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<i>Here you can see the small flowers in the middle.</i><br />
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<i><b>An Aussi Christmas </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">by John Smith Williams</span></i><br />
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<i>A little bit of Okker Humour. </i><br />
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<i>Christmas in Australia is different to what you know , </i><br />
<i>We don't see any reindeer and for sure there is no snow, </i><br />
<i>No steaming Christmas pudding, or eggnog by the fire. , </i><br />
<i>Too much of that there hot stuff, makes us all perspire. </i><br />
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<i>The sun is brightly shining. The sky is blue and bright , </i><br />
<i>The waves are breaking on the beach, the tide is just in right , </i><br />
<i>I've got my great new surfboard, the barbie's on the beach, </i><br />
<i>The chops are cooking nicely, the snags are lined up neat, </i><br />
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<i>The temp is in the 40s, the sand is fine and white, </i><br />
<i>There's coldies in the esky, all has turned out right </i><br />
<i>Who needs the snow and iced up roads, Santa and his sleigh, </i><br />
<i>We'll have a red hot Christmas that's the Aussie way. </i><br />
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<i>Sunset 08/12/2017 around 7.00 PM</i><br />
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<b>18/12/2017</b><br />
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<b>The Tropical's</b><br />
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<i>Alamanda Caramel. I love this delicious colour.</i><br />
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<i>I am a Ginger fan...is there anything more exotic, tropical than the Kahili Ginger all the way from India. </i><br />
<i>With fragrant towers of flowers and bold foliage, Kahili ginger, Hedychium gardnerianum, is a dramatic tropical plant. Native to moist tropical forests of the eastern Himalayas in northern India, Nepal and Bhutan. and is a popular landscape ornamental throughout the world in tropical and subtropical area. It is a declared a weed in Queensland so I must watch it that it does not let itself out of the garden</i>😔<br />
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<i>Big and wonderful, flowers of the edible cacti fruit Pitaya, growing along the fence in the kitchen garden.</i><br />
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<i>Butternut Pumpkin flowers and fruit soon ready for harvest.</i><br />
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<i>I must say I love the flowers as much as the fruit. (Pumpkin is classified as a fruit not a vegetable.)</i><br />
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<i>23/12/2017</i><br />
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<i>...the leafy and shady garden.</i><br />
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<i>I love the patterns of sun and shade. Behind the fence is the leafy garden where lizards and other wildlife have a save heaven. </i><br />
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<i>Hopefully see you tomorrow..</i>.maybe..<br />
<i><br /></i><i>24/12/2017</i><br />
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<i> To all, enjoy a wonderful Christmas.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last December days in the garden 30/12/2017</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Rose Marie van Houtte</i></span><br />
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A valuable rose parent, Marie van Houtte is described as having large, globular flowers of lemon yellow, deeper in the centre, with pinkish lilac suffusing the tips of the petals. Its dark, shiny and occasionally evergreen foliage is a good foil to the light flowers. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This one needs to be in check as it is a substantial seeder. </i></span><br />
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<i>Caesalpinia pulcherima, dwarf Poinciana, a fine summer plant for the hot climate. It needs frequent removal of the spend flowers to keep it flowering and compact.</i><br />
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<i>Front borders along the drive way are blooming now with Rainlillies. I remove the seed heads as they are seeders as well.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The lovely Rose Perle d'or. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Pentas in different colours always favourites in the hot summer garden.</i></span><br />
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<i>Tropical Heliconia a summer garden's fave. Also used as good cut flowers.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Iceberg Rose contrasts against the behind the fence darker foliage and wildlife garden.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Bobby's Help is always around to dismantle large palm leaf fronds.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This now is the last entry for this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surprise...surprise </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">a rainbow this morning; 31/12/2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just collected the pot of gold!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed the garden over the 12 month of 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>My next entries will be in the New Year.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>My best wishes for a Happy 2018.</i></span><br />
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<i><b>©Photos my garden; Text Ts Lavender & Vanilla</b></i></div>
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Today I picked the first Gladioli I planted for picking.</div>
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I try to cook this vegetable in many different ways.</div>
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Preferring the Mediterranean way, my favourite taste.</div>
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Baked with parsley, thyme, olive oil and Parmesan. It was very tasty.</div>
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1 slice of home made bread cut into cubes, 2 cups Zucchini cut into cubes, add enough melted butter to the bread cubes, mix into the zucchini cubes, add your favourite herbs add a little olive oil and grated cheese on top, preferably an Italian cheese. Bake in the oven 180 C (360 F) until soft and browned on top. Around 30 minutes.</div>
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While I am waiting for the milk to cool down to make yogurt, using the time to show of a few more beauties after some rain last night.<br />
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Jut to pretty not to show...<br />
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Roset Delizy, first I thought it was a different one but the open flowers show the yellow heart.<br />
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Amelia Anderson also a new old rose I planted this August. I have already a few more on my bucket list to order next winter!<br />
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Mr. Lincoln I love in my garden for its looks and its fragrance.<br />
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The lovely Marie van Houtte.<br />
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The Butterfly Garden;<br />
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Salvia Meigan's Magic.</div>
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The butterfly garden evolved over a few years from an ugly strip of rough grass along the driveway.</div>
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Now, it is flourishing with bugs, bees and butterflies.</div>
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Salvia African Sky.<br />
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Turns and twists of a spider Daylily.<br />
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Caterpillars are a must have in the garden if you love butterflies.Ts<br />
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Butterflies are the ballerinas in the air, glissade, grand jeté ...Ts<br />
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A lucky butterfly may live around a fortnight! Ts<br />
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As a child I read once a story that flowers accepted only the same coloured butterflies, Yellow flowers for yellow butterflies. I felt sad because I loved to see a yellow butterfly on a pink rose.<br />
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Tea Rose Perfumed Delight; lost the original but fortunately made two cuttings. Both flowering now.<br />
Last year I have seen swarms of dancing butterflies, hundreds, it was an awesome sight. Ts<br />
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More motionless! and then<br />
What joy awaits you, when the breeze<br />
Hath found you out among the trees,<br />
And calls you forth again!<br />
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"<br />
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Blue sky, sweet fragrance of flowers, dancing butterflies, magic.Ts<br />
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15/11/2017<br />
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An early morning walk along the Butterfly garden.<br />
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One of the spider Daylilies growing in the "spider" border along the drive way.<br />
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The perfume of Gardenia tells you where the plant is hiding. I received a Gardenia from dear friends very early when I established this garden, probably 25 years ago. The original plant is still growing and flowering in the upper terrace garden. This is a cutting I made for the butterfly garden a few years ago.<br />
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Spider Daylily, very floriferous, the flowers are around 25 cm across,<br />
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Salvia microphylla Peru Blue, has underground rhizomes. It is a great plant to grow.<br />
This Salvia does not have any star allures.<br />
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Let us, then, be up and doing,</div>
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With a heart for any fate;</div>
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Still achieving, still pursuing,</div>
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Learn to labour and to wait. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from his poetry Psalm of Life.</span></b></div>
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19/11/2017<br />
A rainy day, on and off;<br />
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It gave me enough time in between to do a bit of weeding, as weed lift out easily when the soil is wet. l also spotted a few of my own Daylily seedlings flowering this year the first time.<br />
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Trixie a vibrant red with a pretty green, well formed heart. Slightly pleated petals.<br />
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Aria, a triangual form, nice pink with a deep green heart and darker feathering around the heart. Nicely recurved and slightly frilled.<br />
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Allegra, I think this one has turned out pretty well. Nicely recurved, round, double and a really nice colour well proportioned.<br />
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A garden, doodle book is fun to make.<br />
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26/11/2017<br />
Rapidly arriving in Dec🎄ember. Summer, Christmas<br />
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The garden inhabits a big variety of plants, this brings myriads of Insects.<br />
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A symphony of warm scents and the contented buzz of insects.<br />
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Buddleja<br />
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Euphorbia millii, many different ones are available, they add a lot of interest to the garden.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><b>Buddleja lindleyana </b>is a deciduous shrub native to some provinces of China, where it grows in rocky scrub alongside streams and tracks at elevations of 200 – 2700 m.</span><br />
It is quite hardy in my garden. It suffers a little when the dry times are around. It grows with underground rhizomes. It is an absolutely beautiful plant.<br />
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Hibiscus from Torbli. Every plant as usually a little story attached. This one I brought home as a cutting from her place called Torbli,when I visited my middle daughter.<br />
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I am fascinated by these weirdly relaxed flowers of the spider Daylilies.<br />
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I call these "Golidilocks"!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> “We're all a little </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">weird</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">. And life is a little </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">weird</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">. And when we find someone whose </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">weirdness</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">weirdness.</b><br />
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If I were a flower I would choose to be one as quirky and eccentric as these.😊<br />
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Last day of November; 30/11/2017<br />
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Birds have a mayor role in my garden. I love to see and hear them in the morning. Galahs are very cute, entertaining full of caprioles. They always come in pairs.<br />
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(Big Bird protects birds from flying into the window.)<br />
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The vegetable garden is now planted with Pumpkins, and Melons. Still have beans and Zucchini. I have not been successful with my tomato seedlings. Summer is mostly to hot and humid for non tropical vegetables. Strawberries are under protection and grow well. Poisonous sprays are all banned from the garden.<br />
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I let some of the Fennel bulbs go to seed. Seed is used for next winter plantings and for cooking.<br />
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A native basket fern, <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Drynaria rigidula.</em></span></b></div>
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Plants always grow and hang into the pathways. this path leads to the upper garden and the veg-garden.<br />
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Salvia Belize.<br />
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Lagerstroemia.<br />
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African daisies, <b>Ostespermum, </b>are tough, like it dry and many pretty hues of colours.<br />
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Daylily seedling "Sunbeam".<br />
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And the roses....today pink<br />
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Irene Watts got a bit wet from an earlier shower.<br />
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The delicious Roset Delizy<br />
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Wonderfully perfumed Sophie's Perpetual.<br />
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There is a lot of blue around the garden in November, as widely planted Agapanthus are flowering at this time of year.</div>
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It was quite a happy garden in November as we had enough sun and rain to keep all the plants flourishing.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13661.Victor_Hugo" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Victor Hugo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_24280" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3208463" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Les Misérables</a></span><br />
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See you around in the Summer garden. Tomorrow is the first summer's day. I wish you all happy days of gardening. For the cold climate visitors many great garden books to read when the wind blows and the snow piles up.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-42034828460816051422017-10-07T07:29:00.001+10:002017-11-07T18:11:23.423+10:00October; a month of colours and smiles;<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3063220.Thomas_More" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas More</a><br />
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<b>I do not fully agree with this as I think animals have a soul as well, sometimes more so than humans.</b><br />
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October comes from the name octo latin for eight. On the ancient roman calendar October was the 8ht month not like today the 10th month of the year.</div>
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Photo 04/October 2017 6:16 AM</div>
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Daily visitors.</div>
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October a month of Hippies.</div>
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Bold and Beautiful</div>
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The first to flower; Photo 03/October 2017 2:53 PM</div>
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14/October 2017<br />
The days have run away as fast as they could. Today rain glorious rain to nourish our dry soil.<br />
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Bulbs love October; they are or are getting ready to show off their radiant, ravishing colours.<br />
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Chilli Spice<br />
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Orange Sherbet<br />
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A garden not loved ceases to grow, it dies and with it all the pleasure of existing.Ts<br />
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A few of the first daylilies to flower. (Petticoat frills)<br />
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Louisiana Iris, have a short, glorious time in October<br />
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Pecan nut tree with its attractive pendulous flowers. Bees love them.<br />
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Jaboticaba tree, fruit grows along the branches. Oh, so looking forward to the fruit, delicious.<br />
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Salvia Majestic Spires has a long flowering period, practically all year round. When one flush is finished I prune the plant and it starts to grow the next flush of flowers right away.</div>
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Jeanne Ducher has proven to be the right choice. The Rosebush has grown well, full of buds and the first to flower.<br />
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15/10/2017<br />
Rain 80 mm in the rain Gauge, this morning.<br />
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Peter's favourites were red Geraniums.<br />
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Irene Watts, always enchanting when in full flower.<br />
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...and a glimpse into the herb garden, grows many other plants as well like a miniature Peach tree , a fig tree, along a wall Bougainvillea , daisies, roses and some old cacti needing protection and heat.<br />
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31/10/2017<br />
the last day in October has arrived and with it some rain, heat, and tonight quite cool again. My last chance to post a few pictures from October.<br />
The garden is very colourful now with Hippeastrums, Daylilies and many others flowering now.<br />
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Daylilies, some fine yellow coloured.<br />
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Masterplan has very big flowers, floriferous, this daylily has been one of the first in my garden.<br />
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Hippeastrums provide a bright flash of colour for around 2 month<br />
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Pretty Rosette Delizy just started to flower. I am wondering if I got a different rose, as it does not at all look like R.D. Time will tell. Anyway it is a beautiful small, old tea rose.<br />
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Epiphillum have grand flowers for a short but sweet time.<br />
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Dancing Lady Orchid; Oncidium.<br />
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To have and own a garden means watering, pruning, planting and weeding. If you just take an easy chair and watch others do the work means you are just an audience nothing more and the garden keeps its secrets from you.<br />
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This was October more or less.<br />
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Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-44807149026185398622017-09-06T06:14:00.000+10:002017-10-07T06:41:59.532+10:00Hello September; first month of spring.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Here in the southern Hemisphere September heralds spring. For me so, September is tinged with autumn colours, despite its spring reputation here. September is a lovely month and not just because it is my birth month. Be it in the northern Hemisphere it is so beautiful, the landscape should be getting quieter but no it sends out its fieriest colours to send off the summer season. Here it is spring but one has to hurry not to miss it, because it goes so quickly into the summer’s heat.</div>
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06/September 2017</div>
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The first days in September have just flown past me. Beautiful Iceberg Rose has flowered all winter long but really puts up her best show now.</div>
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Not that much changes from August to September. Daisies still look like Daisies!!</div>
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A look over the fence into the dark garden where the lizards can live without being harassed by Bobby. It needs some clean up before the summer heat. September is usually the month when everything that has not been done over winter is done in a hurry.</div>
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Photos from 06/September 2017</div>
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Jeanne Ducher is the first to flower from the recent new plantings along the Rose walk of "old Roses".<br />
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The odd curled flowers of Perle d'or; planted in 2014.<br />
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Growing since many years in my garden; High up the beautiful red flowers of the native Atherton Waratah from North Queensland.<br />
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Lets September show of a little of its gold. Not in its pocket but growing happily in the garden. Not flamboyant but pretty and easily looked after..<br />
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Love Nasturtium it has so many attributions. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Tropaeolum, commonly known as nasturtium, is a genus of around 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants. It was named by Carl Linnaeus in his book Species Plantarum, and is the only genus in the family Tropaeolaceae.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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These are the pretty, golden bells of Abutilon. Easy to grow easy to look after.<br />
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Nothing beats Sloggers in the garden.<br />
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Dendrobium Orchids love trees, Nomen est Omen.<br />
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Euryops pectinatus; Sonnenschein= Sunbeam, is a compact, tender, shrub, grown for its fern-like, hairy grey leaves and bright, golden yellow, daisy flowers.<br />
Drought tolerant; suitable for xeriscape, flowering now, a good addition to any garden.<br />
It can be grown from cuttings but does not seed and it is not invasive in my garden.<br />
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That's it for today "Friends of the Gardens. See you again, may be tomorrow or next time.<br />
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26/September 2017<br />
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The "Orchid host" tree<br />
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Growing along the rose walk , low growing, pretty and wonderfully scented old rose Irene Watts<br />
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A sea of daisies is very attractive to butterflies<br />
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Polygala needs to find a home it is waiting in a pot.<br />
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Leaves of the birdsnest fern<br />
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Green is a restful colour, associated with nature, youth, spring, and hope.<br />
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In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the colour of clothing showed the owner's social status. Green was worn by merchants, bankers and the gentry. The word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word grene, which, like the German word grün, has the same root as the words grass and grow, from a Common Germanic *gronja-, which is also reflected in Old Norse grænn, Old High German gruoni to grow.<br />
The first recorded use of the word as a colour term dates to ca. AD 700.<br />
Latin viridis, vert in French.<br />
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It is Orchid flowering time in the garden.<br />
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An other month nearly done, see you around friends of the gardens.<br />
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Poets love the seasons. The seasons their daily bread and butter. John Milton, sweet about spring;<br />
O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray<br />
Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,<br />
Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill,<br />
While the jolly hours lead on propitious May,<br />
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day,<br />
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The last days in September, despite the dry spell, have produced Roses and Geraniums. Have let the morning sun play on Bromeliads waiting patiently for rainy days. Have let bloom the first day-lily seedling "Fabi" for this spring/summer. </div>
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Old Rose Amelia Anderson.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif;"> a pillar Tea Rose. Lightly scented, creamy – mauve to pink. Classic buds open to very full blooms with a muddled peony like centre. Recurrent. 2.5m x 1.2m.</span></div>
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St.Francis Xavier.</div>
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Bromeliad,it will grow quite big leaves up to 1 m long with beautiful large sprays of flowers.</div>
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September, spring, yet there are not many spring days in September, as September rushes its days into summer. Tiny frogs hidden in the smallest leaves, croak already with all their might. Their call persistent for cushion soft clouds and silvered raindrops.<br />
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This was September 2017 a glimpse of the garden.</div>
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I am happy with a small home, a large garden, </div>
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my family, a few true friends. Books many and more. Hmm... computer, Ipad, camera, mobile...and my roller skates.</div>
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Rose loves August;</div>
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05/08/2017<br />
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Morning snack, sitting in the herb garden and eating a juicy Mandarin just picked from the tree.<br />
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It is Aussie Mandarin time and the best are from your own trees. There is no comparison. Delightful, the orange fruit glowing between the dark green leaves asking to be picked and savoured.</div>
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The form "Mandarine" derives from the French name for this fruit. The reason for the epithet "mandarin" is not clear, hypotheses range from the yellow colour of some robes worn by Mandarin dignitaries to the mandarin fruit being an excellent kind of Chinese orange.</div>
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Molecular studies revealed the mandarin, the citron, the pomelo and the papeda were the ancestors of most other commercial citrus varieties, through breeding or natural hybridisation; mandarins are therefore all the more important as the only sweet fruit among the parental species.<br />
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This peach tree comes with a little story attached. I found it growing down at the gate entrance. Some stranger must have eaten a peach there and its discarded seed must have landed in the verge garden at the entrance. Merrily it has grown to a little tree and flowered many springs but never had any fruit, but wonderful double blossoms. Then once upon a time Peter dug it out and brought it up to the little home orchard. There it has flowered and born peaches. The peaches are flat and a bit floury, but quite nice when eaten early. This year again it is flowering beautifully, but it will need a pruning as the branches are now trying to reach the sky.<br />
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It might be a <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Saturn peach tree, Prunus persica var. platycarpa, are a variety of peach with white flesh and a flattish, round shape.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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Plum trees are a good addition to the home garden . In spring they please you with pretty flowers and later with luscious plums. They must be protected with nets from fruit fly.<br />
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A very cool August morning today, the sun is out and birds are busy at the feeders.<br />
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Rainbow Lorikeets<br />
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Female King Parrot and native crested Pigeons,<br />
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Female King Parrots<br />
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Male King Parrot<br />
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I've watched you now a full half-hour;<br />
Self-poised upon that yellow flower<br />
And, little Butterfly! Indeed<br />
I know not if you sleep or feed.<br />
How motionless! - not frozen seas<br />
More motionless! and then<br />
What joy awaits you, when the breeze<br />
Hath found you out among the trees,<br />
And calls you forth again!<br />
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"<br />
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<b>Photos from this morning 15/08/2017</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Colours </span><br />
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<b>Oh, Petunia, sweet, tough, elegant, double, single or miniature and glorious colours, you have it all.</b><br />
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<b>Purple Basil a true favourite in the herb garden for its beauty and its great attraction to bees.</b><br />
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<b>Monsieur Tillier has a glorious time. I sing the song of a Rose.</b><br />
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<b>Such simple Fibonacci Darlings, so endearing.</b><br />
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...and now it's time to feed the hens and take Bobby for a walk. It is 7:56 AM and a fine, sunny day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Having breakfast in the herb garden, looking up and around listening to the many bees collecting pollen and nectar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My guess it will be an early spring and summer. Just spotted the first Wisteria flowers, looking closer the climber is full of buds. I have already send my prayer to the weather gods. If they comply is an other question. Today at 5:00 PM It was still 25° C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Together with the self sown purple Petunia , in my view a splendid combination.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">I have noted, that in a odd way nature makes the best combinations. It seems to me canny that flowers throw their seeds where it suits them and at the same time enhances other plants nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Frolicking bees on a china rose "Old Blush".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Nearly burying themselves into the flower to get all the pollen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Kalanchoe, orange bells captured from beneath, a mother of thousands as the folks tale goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">..take care friends of the gardens. See ya...</span><span style="font-size: small;">in true Aussi characteristic mode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> A last word from my good friend Epicurus</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Last day in August;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">it seems to me it was a long month, probably in my imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the hybrid Azaleas are still in flower. Kurume A, I have pruned back as they have finished their fiery display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mangoes are in full flower, heavy boughs. Hope we have a good Mango year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mint tea in the herb garden.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Goodbye for now friends of the gardens, hope to see you in September. <br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">© All Photos from my garden/ texts Ts </span><br />
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Winter suits this vibrant climber performing a theatrical show, mixing and climbing up trees and mingling, holding on to shrubs to show off its orange exuberance.</div>
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That's it for today, all plants were performing this morning just for me....and for you.<br />
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Yesterday morning when I went up to the kitchen garden to pick snow peas, I had a bit of a surprise when I spotted (actually Bobby saw her first) this early visitor curled up in the feathery bed of carrots. Waiting for the sun to warm her up. She as a beautiful carpet pattern that gives her the common name of carpet snake. If you leave them in peace they leave you in peace. Not at all aggressive or poisonous. I think it is quite a privilege to welcome wildlife like her in the garden. <br />
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This morning, 19/07/2017 Roses, a new flush, lovely to see;<br />
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Roses have played a dramatic role in the Wars of the Roses<br />
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The Wars of the Roses 1455 - 1487 were a series of wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, and the House of York. The red rose of the House of Lancaster and the white rose of the House of York.</div>
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Rose Mr. Lincoln.<br />
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Bred by Swim & Weeks, USA, 1964 this is a very tall growing rose to 1.8 metres.</div>
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The dark red blooms are very fragrant and high-centred and the petals have incredible substance and when fading, take a rather dark purple hue. This rose is ideal for the vase and one bush will produce many magnificent long, strong stems.</div>
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Apricot Nectar quite pink in winter, photos are showing natural colours.<br />
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Perfectly aesthetic, Nature's know how for a few glorious days.<br />
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The dark side of roses; perfect today and perhaps tomorrow.<br />
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A sweet, Orchid has made an appearance, showing of its tiny flowers, Twinkle is its stage name.<br />
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20/07/2017 3.00 PM a beautiful sunny day.<br />
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A selfie, yes, Roses do make selfies.<br />
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Tibouchina high up, winking, flirting, look at me, pick me,make me a star for ever.<br />
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Morning always comes, no dawdling or perhaps, or maybe tomorrow. Mornings are steadfast you may rely on them to arrive every day. HAVE A NICE ONE . T.s<br />
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31/07/2017<br />
Bye, bye July; Last act; The Kings and the clowns.<br />
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Some feathered friends visit every day.<br />
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King Parrots; the male is brilliant red the female has a much more subdued colouring.<br />
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Cheeky Rainbow Lorikeets.<br />
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The subtropics might not have a favourite season. There is no transitory period. No harshness of winter. Autumn is like a song, winter is poetic. Spring? There is none or not much of it as this season is mainly swallowed up by summer. In September we might get the only glimpse of a season called spring. High summer has a harshness about it with high humidity, always hot, ferocious rain pelting the grounds/ floods or contrary with unforgiving dry spells. The sun sizzles and the birds sleep in the daytime.<br />
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Variegated, dark red Bougainvillea begins to flower now, a flamboyant winter's treat.<br />
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Here a pretty pink C.sasanqua growing since many years in the garden. Always a pleasure to see. These are such easy shrubs/trees, no fuss at all.<br />
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Colourful leaves are welcome any time. Especially when they are as easily grown as cordylines.<br />
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I am asked:"What is winter like in the subtropics?" Sunny, warm days and cool nights. Sometimes the winter witches are let loose and then the wind blows cold, the landscape looks eerie and bland for a day or two mostly three or four and I can't wait until dust motes dance again in the warming morning sun.<br />
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Brugmansia; Angels Trumpets; The plant may grow to a tree and flowers many times of the year with an abundance which amazes me every time. They scent the air at night and early morning. It is just one of those plants you don't want to miss in your garden.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">relentless reasons of cruelty, or we are awestruck by its actions of beauty and serenity. Ts</span><br />
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Dendrobium Orchids are very easy to grow preparing themselves now to flower in September.<br />
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Trees are the perfect place to grow many different kinds of Orchids be it in pots or holding on to branches with their roots.<br />
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Pretty Gerberas, this is one of the old breeds. growing very well in all conditions in the garden.The new hybrids do not last in my garden.</div>
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A modest garden contains for those who know how to look and to wait,<br />
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Iceberg rose in the wintry, early morning sun. Everything looks the same despite a big shadow has settled over the garden. It is absurd but a timeless time,we can not see or touch, heals everything to a certain extend. With every family member you lose settles a bittersweet memory.<br />
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No winter without annuals in pots, here Petunia, Daisies violas and carnations.<br />
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No winter blog post without my favourite Monsieur Tillier. The rose bush has grown very big full of bud and roses in a steady continuation. In winter the flowers are big. In the summer's heat they are tiny and not growing and flowering as profusely as they do now. <br />
I love the old antique roses, their history and beauty, lived through centuries and looked after by dedicated people.<br />
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...and then there is this, as a garden never sleeps, at least this is the case in the subtropics..<br />
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and this, palm fronds torn to pieces by my JR Bobby.<br />
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Pretty and odd, Malaviscus penduliflorus, with brilliant red flowers, also known under the names of Turk's cap which might be not politically right anymore, but I could not care less what the right, left or centre dictate; also known as sleeping Hibiscus which is rather sweet. For all I know it is a tough floriferous shrub. It may grow quite tall if not pruned.<br />
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Morning dew blushes the flowers of Euphorbia millii.<br />
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I am an early morning person, even in Winter I love to see the first rays of the sun, here gilding the last colourful leaves of a Persimmon tree.The fence is the boundary for the chickens. Many fruit trees are in the chicken yard, as they will eat all the fallen fruit.<br />
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Poinsettias are a real winter treat and make a splendid show for many month with their beautifully coloured leaves.<br />
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This morning;<br />
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Brilliant sunrise.<br />
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Sunrise begins<br />
Sunset ends<br />
the day<br />
We see the light<br />
We see the dark<br />
In-between we hear our story<br />
Unpredictable<br />
A little spark of happiness<br />
Or silence<br />
Our journey with the light and the dark. Ts<br />
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Last day in June 30/06/2017<br />
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Heliconia angusta "Christmas" is flowering now and these beautiful flowers are crying out to be picked.<br />
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It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise. Mark Twain.<br />
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Well the month of June has danced like a butterfly, it has produced green leaves, pink roses, beautiful dawns and brilliant sunsets. The sunshine, golden softness and the rains plentiful. </div>
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Hopefully I see you in July. Take care and enjoy your garden.</div>
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©Photos and stories from the garden Ts </div>
Lavender and Vanilla Friends of the Gardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403418150146893599noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7466932086604675022.post-59960676057284617222017-05-01T21:11:00.001+10:002018-05-18T15:05:32.069+10:00Oh May...it's Mayday, it's Mother's day...<br />
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Ended the last month with roses and start this month with roses, as this, the time of roses, at least in my garden.</div>
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Crépuscule is a reliable rose bred by Francis Dubreuil in France in 1904. It is a Noisette, one of the Old Garden Rose categories.</div>
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In my garden practically flowering through out the year. With its decorative small clusters, Crépuscule creates a beautiful rose display with intense, sweet, Old Rose fragrance.</div>
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Crépuscule can grow into a very large tall shrub rose up to 4m high and 2 to 4m wide. It is also capable of a semi-climbing habit and can be trained against a trellis or along a fence. Crépuscule is orange, fading to apricot-yellow; the name is French for “twilight”, very apt given its colour reminiscent of sunset.</div>
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Quickly to repeat to flower, richly fragrant and very disease resistant; these attributes ensure that Crépuscule is for sure a favourite rose in my garden.<br />
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Harvested Jaboticaba. These cherry like fruit are absolutely delicious. These had the perfect ripeness and sweetness. Even the fairly tough skin could be eaten. They are like little health bombs; one fruit contains:<br />
Jaboticaba fruit is low in carbohydrates. It is a rich source of vitamin C and also contains other vitamins like vitamin E, thiamin, niacin, riboflavin and folic acid. Minerals like calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, copper, manganese and zinc are also present in this fruit. In addition to vitamins and minerals, Jaboticaba is also a good source of several amino acids, fatty acids and many powerful antioxidants that have anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties.<br />
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Studies reveal that Jabotica peel is a high source of dietary fiber and phenolic compounds (anthocyanins) that have potent antioxidant properties. Jabuticaba along with its Myrtaceae family fruits have high content of ellagitannins. Jaboticaba peel has one of the highest content of ellagic acid. Anthocyanins content increases with ripening of the fruit.<br />
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Also made shortbread biscuits today. Recipe from the "Great Dixter Cookbook"</div>
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As I have a habit to change recipes to suit me, I used a bit less butter and added some white wine to moisten the dough.</div>
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350 g plain flour, 175 g Rice flour, 175 g of caster sugar and I used 300g butter instead of 350 g but added 1/3 cup of white wine. Mix it all together and roll out on baking paper. Bake 180 C for around 30 min. Cut the shortbread while still hot but leave it on the tray until cool. The bikkies are delicious.</div>
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I worked for about 4 hours in the herb garden, cleaning up. Not yet finished, as there is so much to do. It already looks much better again. </div>
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Many herbs find any nooks and crannies to lodge their seed. Here Mexican Tarragon has seeded into the gaps of the concrete tiles.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "tahoma";">Love, whose month is ever May,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "tahoma";">Spied a blossom passing fair </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "tahoma";">Playing in the wanton air. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , "tahoma";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">W.Shakespeare</span></span></div>
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See you soon again.</div>
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When I wrote see you soon again I did not know that there was a terrible change on its way which my family and I did not expect to be so quick and final. Today is already the 25. of May and I was not able to continue the garden in May. Today I make myself to continue...<br />
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If nature is not broken in its core it has the great tendency to bounce back. This Dahlia was battered and crushed by rain and wind, when Cyclone Debbie was let loose. I thought it might take a year to recover if it does recover at all.. Yet in a short time it has flowered again on crooked, broken limbs. So if nature wants it we can come out of the darkest and saddest corners and flower again.Ts<br />
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The roses were just blooming and the next day I picked them for his timeless journey.<br />
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This morning one open bloom of this Geranium winked at me and smiled; red Geraniums were Peter's favourites.<br />
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RIP<br />
Peter.<br />
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Because I could not stop for Death. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886</span><br />
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Because I could not stop for Death –<br />
He kindly stopped for me – <br />
The Carriage held but just Ourselves – <br />
And Immortality.<br />
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We slowly drove – He knew no haste<br />
And I had put away<br />
My labour and my leisure too,<br />
For His Civility –<br />
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We passed the School, where Children strove<br />
At Recess – in the Ring – <br />
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – <br />
We passed the Setting Sun –<br />
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Or rather – He passed us –<br />
The Dews drew quivering and chill –<br />
For only Gossamer, my Gown –<br />
My Tippet – only Tulle –<br />
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We paused before a House that seemed<br />
A Swelling of the Ground –<br />
The Roof was scarcely visible –<br />
The Cornice – in the Ground –<br />
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Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet<br />
Feels shorter than the Day<br />
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads<br />
Were toward Eternity –<br />
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Today is the last day of autumn. May went and left its mark, I will never forget. I take now every day as it comes, slowly, after my motto "tomorrow is another day". Cooler nights and mornings, brilliant sunny days...winter in the subtropics.<br />
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All the pictures were taken this morning around 11AM 31/05/2017 in my garden.<br />
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Late autumn and winter provide fresh lemons and Oranges like Washington Navel.<br />
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Hibiscus Fiji<br />
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One of the newer Poinsettias. This one has a subtle powder pink middle, very pretty. Received this plant from my daughter Lilli.<br />
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The lovely, tough Pentas flower through all the seasons.<br />
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A look over the fence.<br />
Miss V's Oak leaf Poinsettia is again in full flower,<br />
and her giant Eucalyptus tree, soaring into the sky, home of Koalas.<br />
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Pretty Poinsettia "Snowflakes";<br />
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There is still a blue banded bee enjoying the new flowers of Salvia "Majestic Towers".<br />
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Can not think of a winter in the subtropics without remembering a brilliant blue sky and pink Bougainvillea.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow is winter;</span><br />
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Succulent Donkeys Ears, flowering on tall stems. Kalanchoe gastonis bonnierii.<br />
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Flowers of Flap Jack; Kalanchoe thyrsifolia.;<br />
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As Dad is not here anymore to sow and plant vegetables, which he enjoyed in his own regimental and scientific way, the girls will help with planting and harvesting. I am sure Peter would be happy to know that his vegetable garden is still in full production and very much appreciated.<br />
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In the Kitchen garden department sugar peas are growing plus many brassicas, onions, aubergines and tomatoes.<br />
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Fennel and Kohlrabi are also ready to be planted out.<br />
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Even in the subtropics, winter is a time for comfort food. Thick soups and apple pies. The days are short. It is the time for invitations to share food and stories, Ts<br />
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Red Plumbago in full regalia climbing up and mingling with long fingers into the next tree.<br />
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Pretty Vriesia catching the sun.<br />
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Finishing May with the pink roses of Monsieur Tillier. An old rose bush brilliant for the subtropical rose garden.<br />
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Next entry will be in June. Stay tuned and enjoy your life. Take care.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.</span></div>
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