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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2012 15:23:10 GMT
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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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2012 20:16:03 GMT
ooooh look....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2012 20:16:46 GMT
My clivia is flowering atm too
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2012 16:49:25 GMT
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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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 5, 2012 20:45:53 GMT
;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 7, 2012 20:36:47 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 15, 2012 12:56:44 GMT
My Aspidistra-
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 16, 2012 15:47:30 GMT
That's its flower? It comes straight up out of the dirt, away from the parent?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 16, 2012 15:55:12 GMT
It's attached to an underground stem.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 15:43:55 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2012 15:47:00 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2012 16:07:08 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2012 1:08:58 GMT
I remember this tree as well. So lovely. Today while out and about,I saw a few of these Brunfelsia blooming like mad!! And fragrant!!!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 5, 2012 3:47:25 GMT
Don't know what this one is, along the shore in San Francisco.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2012 21:11:29 GMT
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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Post by Kimby on Apr 5, 2012 22:07:27 GMT
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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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 6, 2012 20:13:24 GMT
I reckon it's an echium...probably fastuosum but might be another one....one of my favourite plants
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 6, 2012 20:16:41 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Apr 6, 2012 20:18:22 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2012 3:45:43 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2012 10:31:36 GMT
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. Alpinia zerumbet, Shell Ginger The foliage is gorgeous too,and it grows up to 12 feet. Fabulous cut flower!!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 8, 2012 15:49:19 GMT
Does it also have a heavenly fragrance?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2012 16:23:37 GMT
Does it also have a heavenly fragrance? Very faint Kimby,not at all like the Hedycium Gingers.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 8, 2012 21:18:01 GMT
I saw that echium in The Canaries....not as vibrant a blue tho. 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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Post by Kimby on Apr 23, 2012 19:42:58 GMT
OK, so the wildflowers are waking up again in Montana. Here's a few taken this week. My favorite, the Pasque Flower. 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. If I didn't have these chicken wire cages on them, they would be extinct from my yard, I'm afraid... This is one of the tinier wildflowers now blooming: 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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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2012 3:59:01 GMT
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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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2012 12:20:37 GMT
Pelargonium tricolor in my greenhouse -
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Post by Kimby on Apr 24, 2012 14:13:22 GMT
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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Post by fumobici on Apr 24, 2012 16:15:05 GMT
Love that Pelargonium, never seen that species before.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 24, 2012 16:17:11 GMT
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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