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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1110 on Feb 25, 2012, 3:23pm »		[Quote]

Feb 25, 2012, 10:15am, tod2 wrote:
The Pineapple Flowering Ginger are just everywhere!
What I wouldn't give to be able to utter that sentence!
That lily in your second picture looks like the ones saints hold in early Renaissance paintings. Are plants like that indigenous to your area, or escapees from cultivation?
Cool buncha pictures!
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« Reply #1111 on Mar 2, 2012, 8:16pm »		[Quote]
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« Reply #1112 on Mar 2, 2012, 8:16pm »		[Quote]
My clivia is flowering atm too

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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1113 on Mar 5, 2012, 4:49pm »		[Quote]
TOO exciting, Cheery! You got great pictures of the pop-up petals, too. That was a couple of days ago, so you must have more fanned out by now.

Wonderful picture of the clivia. Mine did its thing @a month ago. I took pics & forgot to post, but will look at them to see the date. It will be interesting to know how far apart things bloom in different parts of the world.
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« Reply #1114 on Mar 5, 2012, 8:45pm »		[Quote]
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« Reply #1116 on Mar 15, 2012, 12:56pm »		[Quote]
My Aspidistra-

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« Reply #1117 on Mar 16, 2012, 3:47pm »		[Quote]
That's its flower? It comes straight up out of the dirt, away from the parent?
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« Reply #1118 on Mar 16, 2012, 3:55pm »		[Quote]
It's attached to an underground stem.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1120 on Mar 18, 2012, 3:47pm »		[Quote]
Ohhhh ~~ I recognize that tree from when you showed it before. It's out of this world this year. I don't think it would be possible for it to bloom any harder!
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« Reply #1121 on Mar 18, 2012, 4:07pm »		[Quote]
Yes, it's the same old tree outside my mother's window. It's blooming a month earlier than the first year I ever saw it.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1122 on Mar 20, 2012, 1:08am »		[Quote]
I remember this tree as well. So lovely.

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Today while out and about,I saw a few of these Brunfelsia blooming like mad!! And fragrant!!!
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« Reply #1123 on Apr 5, 2012, 3:47am »		[Quote]
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Don't know what this one is, along the shore in San Francisco.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1124 on Apr 5, 2012, 9:11pm »		[Quote]
It sure is a gorgeous blue whatever it is. At first glance it looks like delphineum,but,the leaves don't look correct to be that,best I can tell.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1125 on Apr 5, 2012, 10:07pm »		[Quote]
It's not lupine or bluebonnet either. I should have taken a closeup, but I was mainly interested in the intense blue.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1126 on Apr 6, 2012, 8:13pm »		[Quote]
I reckon it's an echium...probably fastuosum but might be another one....one of my favourite plants
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1127 on Apr 6, 2012, 8:16pm »		[Quote]
In the garden we have....

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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1128 on Apr 6, 2012, 8:18pm »		[Quote]
Thanks, cheery, it sure looks like an Echium, a new one for me. Wish I'd taken a closer look at it.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1129 on Apr 8, 2012, 3:45am »		[Quote]
Kimby & Cheery ~~ thanks to both of you for the introduction to that glorious blue Echium! That's something I was not familiar with at all.

Cheery, when you get tired of that medical gig, a plant catalog would be happy to snap you up. Those are absolutely wonderful pictures.

Your garden must be a real Spring pleasure right now.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1130 on Apr 8, 2012, 10:31am »		[Quote]
Thanks Cheery!!! I don't know Echeum either. Always good to be able to ID another plant.
It is gorgeous!!! That Blue!! Mon Dieu!!

Just now starting to burst forth,early I might add.
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Alpinia zerumbet, Shell Ginger

The foliage is gorgeous too,and it grows up to 12 feet. Fabulous cut flower!!
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1131 on Apr 8, 2012, 3:49pm »		[Quote]
Does it also have a heavenly fragrance?
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« Reply #1132 on Apr 8, 2012, 4:23pm »		[Quote]

Apr 8, 2012, 3:49pm, kimby wrote:
Does it also have a heavenly fragrance?


Very faint Kimby,not at all like the Hedycium Gingers.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1133 on Apr 8, 2012, 9:18pm »		[Quote]
I saw that echium in The Canaries....not as vibrant a blue tho.

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and I've managed to grow the beautiful echium pininana here in my back garden...took 4 years before it flowered and I had to protect it over winter. It was a bee-magnet...but because the conditions here aren't really warm enough the flowers weren't as compact as they are on plants grown in hotter countries.

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« Reply #1134 on Apr 23, 2012, 7:42pm »		[Quote]
OK, so the wildflowers are waking up again in Montana. Here's a few taken this week.

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My favorite, the Pasque Flower.

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My other favorite, the Trillium.

Perhaps these are my favorites because they are larger than the average wildflower. But also because I have to work so hard to save them from the deer. >:(

[spoiler=spoiler]If I didn't have these chicken wire cages on them, they would be extinct from my yard, I'm afraid...
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This is one of the tinier wildflowers now blooming:

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Blue-eyed Mary, or Collinsia

And a few buttercups are still blooming, though they are looking rattier than this earlier photo:

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« Reply #1135 on Apr 24, 2012, 3:59am »		[Quote]
Cheery, that echium picture in the Canaries is just wonderful -- beautiful & brooding.

Lovely pictures, Kimby. Don't you love the way they push themselves out of the cold soil and through the dried stuff from past seasons? That first picture, especially, is just out of this world.
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Re: What's in bloom?
« Reply #1136 on Apr 24, 2012, 12:20pm »		[Quote]
Pelargonium tricolor in my greenhouse -

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« Reply #1137 on Apr 24, 2012, 2:13pm »		[Quote]
Thanks, bixa, I LOVE this time of year.
Winter's drear is perked up with these colorful gifts from the ground.
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« Reply #1138 on Apr 24, 2012, 4:15pm »		[Quote]
Love that Pelargonium, never seen that species before.
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« Reply #1139 on Apr 24, 2012, 4:17pm »		[Quote]

Apr 24, 2012, 4:15pm, fumobici wrote:
Love that Pelargonium, never seen that species before.


it's a so and so to grow which is why it's pretty uncommon.
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