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Viper's Bugloss or Blueweed, Echium vulgare, Усойниче, Грапаволистни, a biannual European native naturalized throughout most of North America. Sometimes grown as an oilseed plant. Grows in open areas and thrives in poor soil.
Thanks they didn't mow the entire lawn yet!
Queen Lime Green zinnias. Find unique zinnias for your garden.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
The Rose Campion is native to northern Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe, it likes growing in rocky areas to wild areas and in wildflower gardens, it prefers to grow in poor soil but likes full sun. The foliage is a light grey-green and because of the colour and tone of the leaves it seems to make the wonderful colours of the flowers stand out more. Apparently in the olden days people used the felt like leaves as a wick which they put in lamps with oil for lighting, its fascinating what you find out when learning about different plants, which is something I find very interesting.
Add a touch of pink, a dash of white, and a splash of rose to your garden with Cups and Saucers Mix Cosmos.
Add even more cosmos color to your garden here.
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The bold as can be, echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit' brings fiery color into the garden.
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Musk Thistle / carduus nutans. Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 06/07/16.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This summer I finally found Musk Thistles on the point of flowering, growing on the limestone grazing pasture above Longstone Edge. What impressive plants these biennial herbs are. They belong to the sunflower family.
Each large flowerhead contains hundreds of individual, reddish-purple flowers. The flowers around the perimeter open first and this can be seen clearly in my image. The unknown bee sp. has wasted no time in taking nectar.
Encircling the flowerhead are spiny bracts, purple in colour, pale tipped and very painful if come into contact with.
If viewed large, you can also see that the lower green bracts bear a cottony material akin to spider silk. It is also found on the stems and waxy surfaced leaves.
(It has nothing to do with spiders but is another fascinating feature of the plant.)
Usually I enter and exit the pretty Taman Botani Perdana - formerly the Lake Gardens - from the gate near Muzium and Stesen Sentral. But today I left from the more stately one on Jalan Parlimen.
Of course, there's always lots to see on the Park's hills and along its lakes. There are many cultivated beds for bright plants and orchids, too. They divert attention from the small 'weeds' or wildflowers in the grass and in the shade of trees. One of these wee wildflowers is Desmodium triflorum, sometimes called Beggarweed because it 'beggars' poor soil. It's only a few millimeters across but of a very Rich Purple, belying its common name.
Musk Thistle / carduus nutans. Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 06/07/16.
This is the first time I have ever caught these impressive thistles coming into flower. What huge, showy, architectural beauties they are. Apparently they are biennial herbs belonging to the sunflower family and having seen them, I can believe that!
I managed to locate eight in total, growing on the top of Longstone Edge where sheep wander, free to graze as they wish. The thistles were spread out from each other and dominated each little bit of landscape they occupied.
The Musk Thistles acted like magnets to the local bee population as my image shows. I have tried to research what sort they are but am unable to reach any firm conclusion. If anyone can identity them, I would love to know.
Zinnia 'Zahara Double Raspberry Ripple'
Find your favorite zinnias to grow here and fill this world with their beauty. Flies sold separately, but not by us.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Find your favorite zinnias to grow and fill this world with their beauty.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Found in Salsiando Mix, Macarenia is among the showiest of all zinnias.
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Add colorful cosmos to your garden here.
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Find Outstanding zinnias for your garden.
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From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do.
Candy Mix zinnias are delightfully cheerful.
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Flowering Calluna Vulgaris, the Common Heather, or Ling in August (towards the end of the month, simply heather; wrzos zwyczajny, wrzos pospolity, or wrzos sierpniowy). A magical plant for the Celts was a symbol of passion and love. The flower of the earth is now a symbol of the passing of summer. It has become an invasive weed in some areas and is found widely in the Notecka Forest where the plant grows widely. Heather honey has a characteristic strong taste (complement to many dishes, tea, or cocoa; with warming effects). The herb has been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea for treatment of disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract. Other healing properties: antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, sedative, diaphoretic; the herb used in prostate hyperplasia, rickets, and respiratory diseases.
Poor soil and low light keep most of the grass and weeds out of this spot but the Dandelion thinks it's a great location. Gaston County, NC, USA. Canon T6i. 5/9/2018
♬ Then the word on the wire / Would be just like Ash Wednesday bush fire ♬
The flag flies half mast today, the 24th Anniversary of their passing away on Ash Wednesday, 16th February, 1983 in the hills not far from where I now live.
I started school with Neville, did the same classes, same house, played cricket & footy in the lunchtime breaks.
Nevs family where Orchardists, growing apples in the hilly areas of Panton Hill not far from this shot. At school we visited the Jefferys farm in one of our classes. We got to see how they farmed the land. My overriding memory is the drip feeding setup they had to equalise the pressure in the pipes when watering the trees and the steepness of the land.
Nev was going to Dookie (oldest Ag college in Vic) that year looking to continue on the land no doubt. But it was not to be. Tragedy was to strike the Jefferys again not long after the fires. Mr. Jeffery died from a heart attack. Sad stuff.
When I found out about the memorial service all those years ago I made a choice of having a school photo taken instead of attending. I'd already had a pretty crappy year and I didn't want to start the new one with a service.
Bush fires are part of life here, a constant threat. If you live around the area long enough there is no way you escape it. I grew up with them as a 4 year old, drawing black pictures in kinder for months after (so my mum tells me).
So in the summer it never really leaves your mind, will a fire start this year?
In '83 a big one stared. And as a volunteer the Panton Hill CFA Nev with other members went to help and paid the ultimate price.
So Nev, I didn't make it to your service all those years ago. I hope these images & words will suffice.
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greenhouse grown lettuce, sweetcorn, beetroot
and some orange gourds for decoration
Unfortunately all these plants failed & died, due to the poor soil (we didn't add any compost to this bed)
We didn't have enough compost to fill this raised bed, so as an experiment we planted directly into the unimproved soil: no goodness added.
The plants did very badly and most died. We weren't able to harvest any edible plants from this bed, whereas the beds with compost & topsoil in did very well.
Marl deposits are bad news for soil drainage. It's basically a hard packed clay -like layer that does not allow water to pass through it. Got Marl? You've got problems with limited solutions. EZ Flow is one possible solutions for poorly draining soils.
The park is a memorial park, dedicated to fallen CFA (Country Fire Association) fire fighters from the Panton Hill Fire Station who fought in the Ash Wednesday bushfires, 1983.
You can read more about it here.
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The park is a memorial park, dedicated to fallen CFA (Country Fire Association) fire fighters from the Panton Hill Fire Station who fought in the Ash Wednesday bushfires, 1983.
In these small towns the Fire Station is as much a focal point as the football, cricket, post office & local store. And for each home town the members are made up of locals who in the event of fire, become volunteer firefighters.
The connection is a personal one. Aside from looking after the park when I was at Uni. A school mates brother. another school mates father and another I went to school with, all lost there lives in Ash Wednesday.
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"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], uh-KILL-ee-a mill-ee-FOH -lee-um (Thousand leaves), 1x1 ft #Perennial #Tetra #Dor #BC/B= #Midseason #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month 7b, In Garden Bed H1 for 34 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit. Pot was labeled 'New Vintage Rose'
#Achillea #Yarrow
Ash Wednesday Memorial
I'm not sure when this memorial plaque was re-laid. Some time after '86. But at a date before this, someone put a shotgun blast through the original memorial. I certainly remember it before it was smashed. I don't know why they didn't replace it.
It was simply repaired & siliconed back into place. The names are not obscured.
Stuart Duff
Neville Jeffery
Bill Marsden
Of the names you see in the picture, I knew the people above either personally or went to school with their direct relatives.
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"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], -, 1x1 ft #Perennial #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month 7b, In Garden Bed H1 for 1 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit. Pot was labeled 'New Vintage Rose'
#Achillea #Yarrow
"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], uh-KILL-ee-a mill-ee-FOH -lee-um (Thousand leaves), 1x1 ft #Perennial #Tetra #Dor #BC/B= #Midseason #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month 7b, In Garden Bed H1 for 34 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit. Pot was labeled 'New Vintage Rose'
#Achillea #Yarrow
"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], -, 1x1 ft #Perennial #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month 7b, In Garden Bed H1 for 1 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit. Pot was labeled 'New Vintage Rose'
#Achillea #Yarrow
"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], uh-KILL-ee-a mill-ee-FOH -lee-um (Thousand leaves), 1x1 ft #Perennial #Tetra #Dor #BC/B= #Midseason #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month 7b, In Garden Bed H1 for 34 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit. Pot was labeled 'New Vintage Rose'
#Achillea #Yarrow
I took some time out today. Work can wait. While there are urgent things to do, I have the flexibility to take time off, to go back in time.
I got to see some of the area I used to visit when I was younger. Don't know how many times I've ridden on my bike, driven through this area. It gets hot and it's the middle of summer.
The area has been a orchard farming community for over a century supplying apples, pears, stone fruits. These days its being replaced with hobby farms such as grapes & increasingly olives.
Olives work well in areas that have low & reduced water & poor soils. The soils around this area are pretty thin, rocky & poor.
I'm off to a place about an hours drive from Melbourne called Panton Hill. A small town that hasn't changed much over the years.
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I took some time out today. work can wait, while there are urgent things to do, I have the flexibility to take time off, to go back in time.
I got to see some of the area I used to visit when I was younger. Don't know how many times I've ridden on my bike, driven through this area.. It gets hot and it's the middle of summer.
The area has been a orchard farming community for over a century supplying apples, pears, stone fruits. These days its being replaced with hobby farms such as grapes & increasingly olives.
Olives work well in areas that have low & reduced water & poor soils. The soils around this area are pretty thin, rocky & poor.
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Small wildflowers blooming in rocky soil in northern Arizona. These little white flowers are about 1 inch diameter. This poor soil is all rocky ground and there did not seem to be any other plants growing here. Ash Fork, Arizona. Re: Tags. I am searching online for the ID of this wildflower to comply with terms of the WFGNA group. Any help would be appreciated. These are somewhere between a primrose and morning glory. The differences are that there are no separate petals, the round trumpet shape is like a morning glory but they are low to the ground and very tiny, not like jimson weed or morning glory flowers. This is the closest look I've found so far: a dwarf morning glory "Evolvulus sericeus Sw.
Silver dwarf morning-glory, White Evolvulus, Convolvulaceae, (Morning-Glory Family)" from The Ladybird Wildflower Center, U of Texas www.wildflower.org/plants/
O termo original português charneca ganhou um sentido diferente na língua brasileira, passando a significar terrenos de banhado, terras baixas, várzeas pantanosas, eitos de terras sempre úmidas.
Charneca (nome botânico: Erica vulgaris)
Heather é o nome comum no idioma inglês dado a esta planta, hoje muito utilizada como planta ornamental caseira (especialmente em países do Hemisfério Norte), ou também o nome pode referir-se aos campos onde ela predomina; outro nome comum em língua inglesa é Erica, que vem de seu nome botânico em latim). Ambos os nomes Heather e Erica ou Erika são nomes comuns dados a pessoas do sexo femenino nos países de fala inglesa, e também em outros...
Heidekrautgewäcks é o termo em alemão que engloba toda uma gama de variedades desta espécie de plantas, que variam não só na sua cor, que pode ser desde branco, a vários tons de cor-de-rosa, a roxo, etc, mas que possuem também notável variedade no próprio porte do arbusto, na sua altura, no seu formato geral, e no tamanho de suas flores, etc. (e, logicamente, como seria de se esperar, hoje em dia há várias híbridas que facilitam a sua venda no comércio de plantas ornamentais). Assim como em outras línguas, o nome Erica/Erika, de seu nome científico em latim, também é muito utilizado nos países de fala alemã. Basicamente, para lembrar o nome Heidekrautgewächsen é bom ir em partes: Heide = campo de terras "magras", freqüentemente arenoso, onde se encontra somente vegetação rasteira, subarbustivos formando paisagem monótona + Kraut = erva, sub-arbusto, verdura, couve, etc. + Gewächs = do verbo wachsen = crescer, daí Gewächs = planta ou vegetal [ou membros do Reino vegetal]); daí Heidekrautgewächs (Ericaceae em latim), e Heidekräuter = Erikas ou charnecas.
Alemanha: Heidezüchtung por Kurt Kramer (Zucht = cultivo, neste caso de exemplares ornamentais, isto é para fins comerciais, plantação comercial em estufa).
Ainda: Culturalmente, na Alemanha, a flor Erika, tão identificada com as regiões geográficas rasas do norte do país, acabou ganhando implicações ideológico-políticas de raízes nacionalistas durante o fasismo que assolou a Europa Central, servindo de signo numa canção composta por Herms Niel, muito popularizada durante o "Drittes Reich" do nazismo. Há vários artigos na Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre, sobre os mais diversos significados do termo Erika: Wikipedia, die freie Enzyklopädie: Erika.
I took some time out today. Work can wait. While there are urgent things to do, I have the flexibility to take time off, to go back in time.
I got to see some of the area I used to visit when I was younger. Don't know how many times I've ridden on my bike, driven through this area. It gets hot and it's the middle of summer.
The area has been a orchard farming community for over a century supplying apples, pears, stone fruits. These days its being replaced with hobby farms such as grapes & increasingly olives.
Olives work well in areas that have low & reduced water & poor soils. The soils around this area are pretty thin, rocky & poor.
I'm off to a place about an hours drive from Melbourne called Panton Hill. A small town that hasn't changed much over the years.
I'm visiting a small non-discript park which I used to help maintain back when I was at University and had a part time job working for the Eltham Shire Parks & Gardens during the week & over the summer when I had some spare time between classes.
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"Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve Deep Rose', 2017, [Yarrow], -, 1x1 ft #Perennial #sun #poorsoil, USDA Hardiness Zone 4-9, Red, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed a0 for 0 DAYS.
Plants may be trimmed back hard after the first flush of bloom, to maintain a compact habit.
#Achillea #Yarrow
Island Bush Snapdragon, Galvezia speciosa has bright red tubular flowers and lime green oval leaves. Does not tolerate frost, so I planted these by the dyer vent. Native to California's channel islands. Attracts hummingbirds. Evergreen and hardy in poor soil. Give it more water when planted inland. May be on the decline in its natural habitat.
Achillea millefolium 'Walter Funcke' 24w34 5yo Yarrow J1 (Yarrow) Yarrow Sneezewort, 20in.@ Maturity, Brick Red, Hardy to Zone 3-9, Garden J1 (SRC Bluestone) PLTD 2019.
Bluestone: A multitude of brick-red flowers age to rusty terracotta copper orange, then creamy yellow on each plant. Fragrant silver-gray foliage on this upright grower complements the showiness of Walter Funcke. This easy care selection will add interesting color contrast when paired with ornamental grasses. Road salt tolerant.
Missouri Botanical Garden: This plant is similar in appearance to A. 'Feuerland' FIRELAND, and is sometimes described as an improvement thereon because its shorter stems are lest apt to lodge and its brick-red flower color is retained longer as the flowers age. 'Walther Funcke' and 'Feuerland' were both introduced by Ernst Pagels of Germany.
Photo by F.D.Richards, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Creative Commons Copyright CC BY-SA 4.0.
Link to additional photos of this plant on my Flickr account from 2019, 20, 21, 24: