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Botanical Gardens Puerto de La Cruz
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Although known officially as Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava, or "JAO", this installation is actually in Puerto de La Cruz (there is a smaller one actually in La Orotava).
Shades of brown, for Smile on Saturday
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Leftovers from last year's flowers. Each little seedpod is only a few mm tall.
For Macromondays theme dried.
48/366 pictures in 2016
This seedpod is less than an inch wide.
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Cleaning up some files and found this - forgot I had it. It was actually taken in autumn, but it feels like March to me - everything is still so brown, even though the sun shines more often and brighter.
Territory Wildlife Park, Berry Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
The staple diet of fruit bats and Torres Strait pigeons.
Several years ago, on a visit to Yorkshire (and our favourite garden centre!) we returned home with a couple of these lovely plants.
Now, because they grow in the first year without flowering, in the second, they flower, set seed and die off!
However, the important thing is the setting of seed! So all we have to do is tend the seedpods, hence the seeds, and then we have more! So, being biennial, so long as we set some seed one year, then another set the following year, we have these magnificent beings every year in flower! Well, that's the theory anyway!
The giant Himalayan lily (Cardiocrinum giganteum) is a little-known member of the lily family. This rhizomatous perennial belongs to a small genus containing two other species.
Flowering June to August, its thick flower stems erupt from a huge rosette reaching an impressive 1.5 to 4m (5–13ft)!! in height, each bearing racemes of 20 to 40 large white, powerfully fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers 15-20cm (6-8in) long, with maroon stripes inside.
I always think that they look rather like the demon plant saying "Feed Me, Seymour!"
Say what?
M-C posted a photo?!
No way!!!
Must be a someone else.
That just doesn't seem possible.
Well, maybe things are starting to change.
Maybe a return is in the works.
I guess we'll all just have to wait and see. ;)
Five more photos from my archives. I guess all my photos for the next several weeks will have to be from my archives, as I am without my car. I really, really hope this doesn't mean I will not have it back for around Christmas time, especially. Having just spent the last five or six weeks staying mainly at home in order to avoid more phone tag with a landscaping company that said they would clear up my backyard last week (which they have not!), this car issue has not come at a good time. Not that it would have been good at any time.
On 23 September 2021, I finally visited Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. I so rarely get over to this beautiful location. However, I knew that the fall colours would be near their prime, so it was time to make the half-hour drive.
My main motivation was the fall colour, but I also hoped to see a Wood Duck or two. When I first arrived, there were quite a lot of them to be seen, but mainly the far side of the lagoon. Three or four were resting on a popular large piece of driftwood, but the light was not good and large branches were in the way. Managed to get one or two rather poor shots, but it was good to see these very attractive ducks. A short while later, most of the Wood Ducks had disappeared.
My first sighting was a Double-crested Cormorant standing on a tiny 'island' in the lagoon. I hadn't seen one this close this year. Another enjoyed sighting was watching a White-tailed doe and her young one. The old, red brick Colonel Walker House always adds a splash of bright colour to any photo, too.
While working on my Low Tide series, I managed to put together a few pieces for a commission. I liked returning to the rich tones of autumn. It's nice to have a few different projects on the go - jumping between colour palettes keeps things fresh.
Commission, one of three.
8" x 10"
17" x 21" framed
SOLD