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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
-Lucille Ball
Explored - Jul 2, 2009
~Honoré de Balzac
As I said, though it's not everywhere yet, if you look around, Autumn can be found hiding right around the corner.
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“"Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.”- Isaiah 12:4
Hollyhocks are the epitome of cottage garden plants. These stately towers of flowers bloom for a long time in summer in a wide variety of colors. Chances are you’ve seen them alongside a barn, in front of a cute cottage-style house, or gracing.
If there's one defining feature to describe the hollyhock, it's height. With a range of 3 to 8 feet tall, even the short end of the height spectrum is big. When you have a mass planting of these stately beauties in full bloom, it's really quite a show. 131
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
Allium roseum, commonly called rosy garlic, is an edible, Old World species of wild garlic. It is native to the Mediterranean region and nearby areas, with a natural range extending from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and the Palestine region. It is cultivated widely, and has become naturalised in scattered locations in other regions outside its natural range
Allium roseum grows naturally to about 18 inches (46 cm) high in well-drained soils, and in Europe blooms from late spring to early summer.
The inflorescences of A. roseum are umbels. The loose, fragrant florets are about 3 inches (76 mm) long, having six pinkish to lilac tepals.
The smell and flavour of the bulb is powerful enough to drive squirrels and browsing deer away from gardens, where they are planted as ornamental flowers. For this reason, they are suitable as companion plants to tulips and similar species.
Just a quick post to congratulate my brother over there in South Carolina and to wish for my sister-in-law, a safe delivery of their first born child... a son. She'll be in labor anytime now, I was told.
Can't wait to welcome the new addition to our family... I just hope he doesn't get much features from my brother!..LOL
A flower of a scarlet red hibiscus. We have two big pots of them outside the kitchen door and after almost losing them in the Spring through some sort of disease they've responded so well to being nurtured over the summer. They're all coming into flower now which is a lovely sight to see.
Have a great week ahead everyone! 🌺 😊
This is another result of doing something with a red feather and my Euphorbia trigona (African Milk Tree). I've always thought it was a cactus but this morning I learned otherwise after consulting Madame Google. You can see in the photo one of many very small leafs which are still covering the plant following an upsurge in growth during July. I've brought it inside now for the winter as they don't like the cold (we have that in common...) 😊
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Sorry, my friends...I'm back to my usual sleep deprived and back breaking weeks. I'm working on some design proposals that I need to close before the Holiday Season.. so I might not be able to visit you all regularly..
And to make things worse for me.. my connection is really ssssslooooowwww!!!.. now I'm lucky to open a single page in 5 minutes... and upload my photos in 10..grrrrr... I really need to get a DSL connection this Christmas..lol
Anyway.. I'll do my best to get back to you as soon as I'm able.. maybe when I get a chance to find a coffee shop with wifi...
So please bear with me again..I just really need to get us a project for next year... so I can also get my 5D MkII next year!..hahahaha
#435 on interestingness... thank you my friends!
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This flower is from our neighbour's garden who has an impressive collection of iris, each more beautiful than others
hand held and in natural light of a Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea)....about 2" long.
please view against black background HERE
If that link doesn't work, please view LARGE HERE
and please check out my previous post of a Squirrel Tree frog (Hyla squirella) at this link: www.flickr.com/photos/dixie_native/2943927139/