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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2022 18:53:54 GMT
They're lovely! I adore the leaves & the delicate colors of the flowers.
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Post by casimira on Feb 17, 2022 16:21:42 GMT
All of the camellias and sasanquas are in full regalia here. I do wish that the blooms lasted longer. They are kind of a "flash in the pan". Gardenias the same.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2022 18:38:47 GMT
Maybe so, but you all have sweet olive, with its unparalleled peekaboo fragrance in winter. If a vote were taken, sweet olive would be high on the list of "most missed" by ex-Southerners.
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Post by bjd on Feb 17, 2022 19:47:39 GMT
I have never heard of sweet olive, but the mimosa trees here have the same effect. They are already ending their blossoming for the year, but there are a lot of them around.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 18, 2022 9:58:20 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2022 17:22:24 GMT
Wonderful! What is it?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 18, 2022 17:28:19 GMT
It's a Euphorbia of some sort. I found it a few years back in a garden centre clear out area.
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Post by casimira on Feb 18, 2022 17:31:41 GMT
Maybe so, but you all have sweet olive, with its unparalleled peekaboo fragrance in winter. If a vote were taken, sweet olive would be high on the list of "most missed" by ex-Southerners. Absolutely! I know of a few of my friends who relocated elsewhere and over a period of time acquired a sweet olive to plant in a giant pot to place in their sunrooms because they missed them so much. They sure are slooooow growing I have to say.
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Post by casimira on Feb 18, 2022 17:33:27 GMT
It's a Euphorbia of some sort. I found it a few years back in a garden centre clear out area. That was my first guess. I love the variegation.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2022 17:48:02 GMT
I may have to smuggle a cutting of sweet olive back from a visit to NO!
I guessed Euphorbia as well, but don't remember ever seeing one like that. There is a shrubby Euphorbia popular in gardens here that gets completely covered with white "flowers" once a year.
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Post by casimira on Feb 18, 2022 18:17:38 GMT
I would be willing to make you a Carmen Miranda like hat with sprigs of sweet olive, ribbons and bows and they would never know the difference once the airport security got a whiff of it, the odor being so pleasant and uplifting and mellow. Or you could fashion a bun with your thick curly tresses and stick in a few cuttings as adornment. (A good friend of my mother's smuggled a bag of saffron from Istanbul inside a chignon without a hitch). I remember that it was a very popular topic at dinner parties my mother attended. My mother was the chef and all the diners exclaimed that they tasted "something" like saffron in the dish. (One of the dishes was a version of bouillabaisse with local fresh seafood from the waters on Long Island).
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2022 0:02:12 GMT
Wow -- that bouillabaisse sounds wonderful!
I can't remember what movie or tv series it was, but a gangster's wife smuggled in diamonds in her 1960s teased hairstyle.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2022 4:46:12 GMT
Here are a couple of things in bloom in my patio right now. The first picture can be a little quiz, as in: name this flower. The hints are that it is shown much bigger here and that it is blooming out of season. I was given the bulbs for these amaryllis almost twenty years ago by a woman who pressed them on me, saying, "You have to have these!" She was so right. They bloom reliably year and year no matter what.
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2022 6:39:15 GMT
Of course, your first picture looks like a rose, so I suppose it isn't one since you make it into a quiz.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 5, 2022 7:37:07 GMT
I can only think of rose I’m afraid. The French one who’s name I’ve forgotten.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2022 15:39:13 GMT
Both of you are correct that it's a rose. Do you know the name? Hint: not French.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 5, 2022 15:58:59 GMT
Lady Banks.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 5, 2022 16:23:59 GMT
What he said.
What I meant was I saw it in France. I'm at an age where I get confused easily...
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2022 16:34:37 GMT
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2022 16:36:50 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2022 18:29:18 GMT
Mark wins the big prize! Mick, your response doesn't even get runner-up. Wow, Bjd ~ garden glory on steroids! Everything is so perfectly healthy, too. What is that fabulous shrub, 1st picture in #3229?
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Post by bjd on Mar 5, 2022 18:42:59 GMT
That is a loropetalum, Bixa. I have several but that is the oldest and biggest.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2022 18:48:11 GMT
I've never seen one before -- it's wonderful. Just looked it up & was gratified to see that it's a member of the witch hazel family, as that was my guess based on the flowers, although the leaves knocked out that as a candidate. hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/loropetalum/
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Post by lugg on Mar 5, 2022 19:26:42 GMT
my goodness - what gorgeous blooms . That is a loropetalum, Bixa. I have several but that is the oldest and biggest. I dont think I have ever seen this - it is so gorgeous
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Post by bjd on Mar 6, 2022 7:46:41 GMT
I recently planted another one on which the leaves are almost black and the flowers are red. The nice thing is that they keep their leaves in winter.
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Post by casimira on Mar 6, 2022 16:00:14 GMT
I knew that was a Lady Banksia but came in too late to ID.
Beautiful blooms BJD!!
I miss gardening soooo much.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 6, 2022 16:42:28 GMT
Looks like spring is here in the northern hemisphere. Yay!
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Post by casimira on Mar 14, 2022 17:50:15 GMT
Yesterday we took a walk over to the property to check on things. As soon as we hit the front makeshift gate, we caught a huge whiff of an aroma that was so delightful and refreshing. All the lemon trees in the grove were/are in full bloom. We had a bumper crop this past year and judging by the number of blooms presently in play it appears we will have repeat performance later in the year.
Hopefully we will be back in our new house when that happens.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 14, 2022 18:01:31 GMT
I might get three if I’m lucky. None last year as spring and summer so awful.
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Post by casimira on Mar 14, 2022 19:01:01 GMT
Generally, they take a "rest" after such a huge harvest but not the case this year it seems. Fine by me.
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