February in my garden;

I don’t mind  how any day starts as long as I can be in the garden. Titania

...an early morning...

Murrayas  scenting the garden...

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph waldo Emerson

Costus barbatus;

Nature our erudite friend teaches us freely how to live but mankind dismisses it freely and makes its own mistakes. Titania

Canna; anything more beautiful?

Musaenda frondosa...

..a friendly neighbour hanging over the fence;

The earth is not ours it is on loan only. Titania

Pomegranates  are ripening and..

..make a Mango sorbet.

Possum was here;

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Who can match

The sky

The wind

The rain

The sun

The stars

The moon

And  infinity? Titania

Adiantum aethiopicum

Maidenhair Fern

It looks fragile but is as tough as old boots!

Adiantum aethiopicum, also known as the common maidenhair fern, is a small fern of widespread distribution. Occurring in Africa, Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand. Known as the Common Maidenhair Fern in Australia.

Adiantum aethiopicum was one of the many species first described by Linnaeus, in this case in his Systema naturae in 1759. 

Adiantum aethiopicum grows in spreading clumps of fronds from 10 to 45 cm (4-18 in) in height. The rhizomes are wiry and branched. The fronds are horizontal and layered, or upright. They are divided into two or three and have many small wedge-shaped segments, each of which has sori along its margins underneath.

A common plant, often seen growing in moist areas. In Australia it is found near by creeks or in open forest, where it may form a large colony.

Adiantum aethiopicum is a popular and well known ornamental plant. Propagation is from plant division or by spores.  Ensure the Maidenhair is well watered, drying out will easily stress the plant. Despite being an under-storey plant, it must have good light if placed inside the house. Though try to avoid too much direct sunlight or draughts. Plants that have dried out and lost all foliage may not be dead. They may send out new growth up to 18 months later. Outdoors it tolerates a heavy clay soil.

5 finger Jack;

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

Roses have appreciated the rain and are set to grow new flowers again;

That beautiful roses have thorns does not matter. We still like to pick them. Titania

..a necklace of bells,  gently, gently..

Small, blue papery petals, received from my daughter; Lilli received it from a friend, so plants are handed from friends to friends, that's gardening...

the garden has so many more fine and worthy plants to grow and show. This post  is just a tiny "look at me" from the garden in February.

Believe it or not:

Only when the last river has been polluted, and the last tree been cut down, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.

- cree native saying

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January...in my garden

Would you like to grow some  flowers

Daisies or nasturtiums

Pink and red or other colours? Titania

Aptly named Pride of India, Lagerstroemia speciosa; bunches of beautiful, pinkish flowers adorn this tree. 

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerstroemia_speciosa

A flowering cutting I made last winter from a  French Delbard Rose.

A pot full of flowering Thyme; crushed, the scent of La Garrigue brings back memories...in the herb garden;

Tiny flowers of scented Geraniums in the herb garden;

Troilus and Cressida: III, iii

These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature…

High up in the sky the beautiful, black cockatoos, their mournful cry alerts me of their presence..

.http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Calyptorhynchus-funereus

Cuban Hibiscus in warm summer colours grows tall, complimenting the flowers of the Alexandra palm.

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The exuberance of Cassia fistula;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassia_fistula

Generally people can identify types of berries, trees, flowers, or bugs. Most of the planets life remains unnamed and unseen.

Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish  naturalist tried to remedy that with his book "Systema Naturae," first published in 1735. He  proposed a hierarchical system for classifying plants, animals and minerals; minerals went later into the domain of geology. His aim was to identify and inventory all the world's living things.

Discovered are only as few as 10 percent of the species now living on Earth.

Little is known of the living world of planet earth.

 "Encyclopedia of Life," an online reference source and database for the 1.8 million species known on Earth, as well as all those later discovered and described.

Linnaeus' initial groupings were reorganized in the later 11 editions of "Systema Naturae" that expanded to more than 2,300 pages.

But the hierarchical system of classifying all known plants and animals was a defining moment in scientific history.

A genus and species name specific to each living thing, called binomial nomenclature, endures.

Food from the summer garden;

...different chillies for chilli jam. 

These small, longish tomatoes have a wonderful flavour for eating fresh or cooking. They are very prolific even in the humid summer heat.

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One for the rock, one for the crow,

One to die, and one to grow.

-  English saying

Dill  seeding in the herb garden.

One for  the blackbird, one for the crow,

One for the cutworm, and one to grow.

  American saying

Peaceful evening in the Currumbin valley;

Believe it or not:

We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest

©Photos from my garden/ text Ts.

This is my garden; end of year;

Hoya carnosa scrambling up a tree, This one is indeginous to this area.

Bromeliad/Vriesia species;

Nature speaks  to anyone but most people do not have the patience to listen. Titania

I love to cook with Aubergines; here called Eggplants; once a week I make Moussaka; it is delicious.

Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

If you want a long speech ask a man, if you want action ask a woman. Titania 

Confidence and courage  are gained by experience; Titania

Lagerstroemia in different pinks are great for summer colour. The trunk and branches sport a beautiful colourful bark which comes into its own in winter when the tree is bare from leaves and flowers.

We can not change our memories, but we can accept them as they are. Titania

Dypsis decaryi is a palm tree commonly known as the Triangle palm native to the Madagascan rainforest.

Mangoes;

Age is something that doesn't matter,

 unless you are a cheese.

Bromeliad; Aechmea fasciata; a beautiful addition to any garden; easy and reliable.

Nothing is as fast as time. Titania

View from my garden to the Ecovillage; early morning.

Scots bonnet chillis in the herb garden.They  are used for chilli jam.

Believe it or not: 

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

My favourite Pericles

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Fragrance, colour and looks;

Apricot roses in my garden;

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. 

Ovid 

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses;

 they last while they last. 

Charles de Gaulle 

Come into my garden,

 my roses will be pleased to see you; Titania

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 

Ben Hogan 

A revolution is not a bed of roses. 

Fidel Castro 

What though youth gave love and roses,
 Age still leaves us friends and wine. 

Thomas More 

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. 

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” 

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty

Roses of today or yesterday or the day before,

 sweet and fragrant; Titania

It is summer when the garden smells of roses

 and the sun streams molten 

gold ;Titania

"THEY ARE NOT LONG"

"They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,

Love and desire and hate:

I think they have no portion in us after

We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:

Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for awhile, then closes

Within a dream."

By Ernest Dowson (1867-1900).

And tomorrow

a beautiful sunrise...

©Photos/text Ts