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Post by lugg on Jul 27, 2016 20:01:49 GMT
I think you are probably correct re (globosa) but was not 100% re this . I had a globosa for some years and loved it ... just planted another buddleia to replace it - a pink beauty this time. Yes some varieties are invasive ( altho not the globosa) but, having just travelled from Hereford to Worcs and return by train the b. davidii (which is invasive), was a joy to see - so many butterflies and so much colour next to the train tracks
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 28, 2016 19:25:53 GMT
Thank you, Tod! I may have gone overboard this year with flower pictures, but what a joy it was. I'm working on one thread now in Public Gardens, and there will be several more also.
Lugg, you are so right about B. davidii being a joy to see -- long may it invade. One extra thrill was seeing it in a part of France with (maybe) more acid soil, so that the gorgeous flower spikes were much, much darker.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2016 3:04:44 GMT
... Yes, I did go click crazy and probably will unearth even more London flower pictures eventually. And I did find those pictures and am back with more London abloom. As before, this will be interspersed with other things I saw before, after, & during flower viewing. This time there will be London icons, too. So here I am wending my way to the Portobello Market ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2016 3:11:40 GMT
I love all the old fashioned soft pinks and whites and blues, but obviously some people crave >hot< colors ~
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 5:47:18 GMT
Great additions to see at a time when summer has been forgotten...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2016 6:14:56 GMT
Forgotten? Never. I chose to live where it's summer-like all year long. Winter bad, summer good. But thank you! Okay, one day I managed to do the thing I do best, which is to get lost. My objective was the Spitalfields market, which I duly looked up online and set out to attend. Since I knew it was in the city, when the bus I was on wound up in a deeply green and wet area named something Marsh, or swamp or bog or whatever, I started thinking that perhaps all was not well, destination wise. Anyway, the nice driver let me off at the market just as I'd asked and yes, it was not the Old Spitalfields Market with its centuries-old charm. No, this was the New Spitalfields Market with its large featureless buildings hiding their wholesale goods. No matter, I made a potty stop then wandered through the weeds and across the highway and into part of Leyton until I finally found a conveyance to get me back to the heart of London.
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Post by bjd on Dec 13, 2016 6:36:07 GMT
You must have an inbuilt radar for finding flowers and gardens, Bixa. Years ago, when I spent a fair amount of time in London, I had friends living in Portobello Road. I have absolutely no memory at all of seeing rosebushes and flower boxes in the streets. Although, perhaps it's like Paris -- much more flowery now than 40 years ago.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 13, 2016 11:37:30 GMT
I have only just caught up with this wonderful thread. Thanks Bixa.
Makes me quite proud of my country!
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2016 3:53:46 GMT
Bjd, I really didn't even have to look -- plants and flowers just sprang out at me everywhere. It seemed as though almost everyone on any street had their patch planted, no matter how small. I'd always heard that England was a nation of gardeners and it sure seemed that way. Thank you, Mick! You should be proud. It is indeed a green and pleasant land. Right now you can see that we seem to have left the green behind, as I made it safely back to town from the swamps ~ By this time any street market had rolled up for the day. As I shuffled around deciding which way to go, I spied something I remembered hearing about a few years ago when it opened ~ Naturally I went in. I was greeted by a friendly bartender and a cheerful waiter. I confessed to them that I'd only entered to see if the place smelled Mexican. They were amused rather than offended when I told them that it did not. Reaching into a huge, authentic Oaxacan molcajete setting on the bar, they presented me with these clever keepsakes ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2016 4:21:43 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2016 4:45:56 GMT
I should have taken more wide shots, as it seemed each building I passed has a space planted in front of it ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2016 4:59:58 GMT
Time to wind this thread up. Here I am back at my home station, Kensington Olympia, looking down from the pedestrian crossover to the allotments by the tracks ~
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 6:05:27 GMT
I was realising that even though I have been to London at least a dozen times, I have never actually been on Tower Bridge. Maybe next time!
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 14, 2016 8:30:09 GMT
I know Hays Galleria so well...
I don't know if you saw but Wahaca had to close as so many customers had gone down with the winter vomiting bug Norovirus (which I also had - not nice).
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2016 2:52:35 GMT
Tower Bridge was a great walk, not only because of the views, but because there were so many other people walking across who were as thrilled to be there as I was.
Oh, I wish you could have gone to Hays Galleria with me, Mick! I'm sort of embarrassed to admit this since usually I'm a good solitary traveler, but in the Galleria I did feel quite a pang of lonesomeness, as it is obviously such a get-together-with-friends kind of place.
And no, I didn't hear about Wahaca nor about Norovirus. I looked it up and yeah, it sounds anything but nice. Anyway, apparently Wahaca is back in business. I had no idea they had so many locations. (And you have no idea how I wince having to write Oaxaca phonetically. )
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Post by bjd on Dec 15, 2016 7:32:30 GMT
The penny just dropped! "(And you have no idea how I wince having to write Oaxaca phonetically. )"
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 15, 2016 8:24:44 GMT
My bout of Norovirus occurred whilst I was driving...........
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2016 16:19:48 GMT
Thanks for the image, Mick -- it's playing on a technicolor loop in my head. Joking aside, that must have been hell. Bjd, I guess I should have said "...phonetically in English", as Spanish is written phonetically by default.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 17:14:29 GMT
I'm sure there are some people who go there and say things like "Waxaka" or "Oaks-aka" to general merriment before they are set straight.
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