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Posted by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2012, 3:23pm

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!

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2012, 8:16pm

ooooh look....

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Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2012, 8:16pm

My clivia is flowering atm too

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Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2012, 4:49pm

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.

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 5, 2012, 8:45pm

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 7, 2012, 8:36pm

Posted by mickthecactus on Mar 15, 2012, 12:56pm

My Aspidistra-

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Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 16, 2012, 3:47pm

That's its flower? It comes straight up out of the dirt, away from the parent?

Posted by mickthecactus on Mar 16, 2012, 3:55pm

It's attached to an underground stem.

Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 18, 2012, 3:43pm

Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2012, 3:47pm

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!

Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 18, 2012, 4:07pm

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.

Posted by casimira on Mar 20, 2012, 1:08am

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!!!

Posted by kimby on Apr 5, 2012, 3:47am

Don't know what this one is, along the shore in San Francisco.

Posted by casimira on Apr 5, 2012, 9:11pm

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.

Posted by kimby on Apr 5, 2012, 10:07pm

It's not lupine or bluebonnet either. I should have taken a closeup, but I was mainly interested in the intense blue.

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Apr 6, 2012, 8:13pm

I reckon it's an echium...probably fastuosum but might be another one....one of my favourite plants

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Apr 6, 2012, 8:16pm

In the garden we have....

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Posted by kimby on Apr 6, 2012, 8:18pm

Thanks, cheery, it sure looks like an Echium, a new one for me. Wish I'd taken a closer look at it.

Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2012, 3:45am

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.

Posted by casimira on Apr 8, 2012, 10:31am

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!!

Posted by kimby on Apr 8, 2012, 3:49pm

Does it also have a heavenly fragrance?

Posted by casimira on Apr 8, 2012, 4:23pm

Apr 8, 2012, 3:49pm, kimby wrote:

Does it also have a heavenly fragrance?

Very faint Kimby,not at all like the Hedycium Gingers.

Posted by cheerypeabrain on Apr 8, 2012, 9:18pm

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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Posted by kimby on Apr 23, 2012, 7:42pm

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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Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2012, 3:59am

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.

Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2012, 12:20pm

Pelargonium tricolor in my greenhouse -

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Posted by kimby on Apr 24, 2012, 2:13pm

Thanks, bixa, I LOVE this time of year.
Winter's drear is perked up with these colorful gifts from the ground.

Posted by fumobici on Apr 24, 2012, 4:15pm

Love that Pelargonium, never seen that species before.

Posted by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2012, 4:17pm

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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