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sleepover in the backyard, complete with tents, a trampoline, and guinea pigs, march 2001
largs bay, adelaide, south australia
Family Moraceae
Common name: Moreton Bay Fig
Large tree, epiphytic and strangling in early stages, trunks becoming massive with large buttresses; young stems glabrous.
In coastal rainforest of all types.
NSW Qld .
Interior shot of my Kindle cover from some Breakfast at Tiffany's fabrics. It's my own design, with a magnetic flap closure. Like it? I could make one just for you, in colors or fabrics you choose. Convo me or email me!
The Garden of Calixto and Melibea is a 2,500 square meter garden located in the old town of the city of Salamanca (Spain). It is named after the famous garden of the tragicomedy of Fernando de Rojas, the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (originally published in 1499).1 It is located on the slope of the old Salamanca wall at the foot of the Tormes River. Today it is a romantic park that can be visited due to the love story of the characters in love in the work of Fernando de Rojas: Calixto and Melibea. It was inaugurated on June 12, 1981.
Characteristics
The Garden is located in the historic center of the city. It is a well-kept garden that has various varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers. The so-called Vizier's garden is added to the garden. When the garden was opened in 1981, the city was twinned with Coimbra, as reflected in a commemorative plaque on the garden walls.
Vegetation.
The most striking species are a Phoenix canariensis, a Washingtonia filifera, a Cordyline terminalis, a parterre of agapanthus and a plumbago, offered to the Garden in 1991 by a Granada resident in Salamanca who felt fleetingly transported to a romantic Andalusian garden in the Garden, and wanted to complete the twinning by introducing ornamental species never seen in the city's public gardens.
Later, the Garden's collection has been enriched with other plants unusual in the city's gardens, such as St. John's Wort, agaves, holm oaks, medlars and even a beech.
Carols was a joy tonight - God provided some pretty speccy weather, the good citizens of Wollongong provided a great crowd - and the saints at Figtree served their hearts out. Top work to all - including those who manned the Lost Children recovery van..
More images from the roughly 500 I took to come ;-)
Made with a fresh cottons jelly roll (fig tree quilts for moda). We'll be teaching a class on this apron at Suppose this Summer.
I stood inside the tree and shot outward. We make a lot of things from the figs, such as fig butter, stewed figs and apples and dried figs. We get two harvests per year and get lots of figs each time. The deep purple figs are the ones that are ripe. The purple and green ones are half ripe.
Momentarily unoccupied: the gigantic Port Jackson Fig, aka "the climbing tree" in Mack Ryan Park, Milton.
Victoria Chambers, 14 Figtree Lane, Sheffield, c1800.
Former Sheffield Hospital for Women.
Grade ll listed.
In this building the original Sheffield Hospital for Women was founded with 6 beds on 29th June 1864. Transferred to Leavygreave Road as the Jessop Hospital for Women on 22 July 1878.
Ficus sp.
The hugest Ficus I've ever found with perimeter was about 9-10 meters I guessed.
Puri, Mojokerto, East Java
The huge fig trees in Memorial Drive are living war memorials to the Soldiers of WW1.
In Eumundi, Queensland, Australia
Built upon 1840's plantings, today's Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Gardens were developed in the 1920s & 1930s. Long Beach, CA.
"In 1876 a visiting seaman presented a seedling of an Australian Moreton Bay Fig tree (Ficus macrophyllia) to a local girl who planted it at 201 State Street. When the girl moved away one year later, her friend Adeline Crabb relocated the tree to the corner of Chapala and Montecito (in Santa Barbara) on land then owned by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company.. This Australian immigrant tree has grown to one of the largest Moreton Bay Fig tree in North America. The tree was officially designated as a historic landmark in 1970 and the property was deeded to the City of Santa Barbara in 1976. The tree has been placed on the California Register of Big Trees. In July 1997 the circumference of the tree at 4-1/2 feet above ground was 498 inches (41-1/2 feet). The average crown spread was 176 feet and the total height was 80 feet. Measured in November 1991, the branch spread was 167 feet with a total height of 76 feet. The trunk diameter above the buttress roots is 12.5 feet."