OT: Flower Pictures
Larry Deack
I thought I'd post these pictures of flowers currently blooming in my back
yard.
No guitar content at all but the first picture of the jumping jacks somehow
makes me smile :-)
http://cgist.home.mindspring.com/july05.htm
Andrew Schulman
It doesn't look like that outside my apartment window here in the Big
Apple.
I imagine playing Villa-Lobos is easy when looking at that beautiful
color creation!
Thanks for the show-
Andrew
sycochkn
Bob
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betsey
really really gorgeous photos. my hydrangeas are gorgeous this year,
but my photography is not up to par!
Larry Deack
> WOW!!!
> It doesn't look like that outside my apartment
> window here in the Big Apple.
Why not? Just do a bit of planting.
> I imagine playing Villa-Lobos is easy when
> looking at that beautiful color creation!
>
> Thanks for the show-
Thanks for posting that you liked them. I posted them for my family, who
all like plants, but since it was so boring in RMCG I thought they might
give somebody a smile and it appears they did just that. Thanks.
Larry Deack
> really really gorgeous photos.
> my hydrangeas are gorgeous this year,
> but my photography is not up to par!
It's not that hard with a few simple ideas about composition that you can
learn in a photography or art class. If one out of 10 photos are good you
are doing fine. Like playing guitar it just takes practice doing it.
Hydrangeas are amazing plants the come in just about every color. I don't
have any but there are some in this area even though they take a lot of
watering. We have a lot of Mediterranean plants that are more suited to this
area but we still find that it still takes a lot of watering in the summer
to prevent some plants from dying.
Thanks for posting that you enjoyed them. That was why I posted them :-)
Larry Deack
> The last picture looks like some rockrose orchid in the background.
Nope. Jade (or money) plant on the ground and cape honeysuckle and
periwinkle above the fence. You can also see a bit of the leaves of a South
African bulb plant that I can't name. That is a telephone pole carved to
spell pecker in the foreground with almonds stored in it like the wood
peckers do. An artist friend did that and gave it to us when he moved out of
the area.
Alison Causton
ZVCCe.6452$BK1....@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net, "Larry Deack"
<cg...@mindspring.com> wrote:
Does the bulb plant have strap-like leaves, rather like a daylily, and
salmon-coloured flowers? It might be Schizostylis coccinea. Like these
here:
http://www.mailorderplants4me.com/perennials_uk/schizostylis_fenland_daybrea
k.html
On the other hand, if the flowers are blue, it might be Agapanthus.
http://users.adelphia.net/~sdculp/Greenhouse/Agapanthus%20Elaine.jpg
Funny, we call those little violas "johnny jump-ups" ;-). In the breeze,
they always seem to be dancing and with "faces" like that, laughing at their
own little secrets.
Great photographs, Larry.
Alison
Sam Culotta
>
>It might be Schizostylis coccinea.<
Hey, clean it up Allison.
( Nice to see you posting again)
Sam
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Larry Deack
> Does the bulb plant have strap-like leaves,
It's the 3rd picture on the site of the white 6 sided flowing flowers. I
just don't know what it is.
> On the other hand, if the flowers are blue, it might be Agapanthus.
> http://users.adelphia.net/~sdculp/Greenhouse/Agapanthus%20Elaine.jpg
Lots of those around here but that's not it.
> Funny, we call those little violas "johnny jump-ups" ;-).
That's it! Sorry for the name error.
> In the breeze, they always seem to be dancing
> and with "faces" like that, laughing at their
> own little secrets.
That's exactly how that picture felt to me. Made me smile.
> Great photographs, Larry.
> Alison
Glad you liked them and nice to see you post. It's been a bit dull here
lately and I thought we needed some color... or maybe it's me :-)
William Jennings
"Alison Causton" <acau...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Funny, we call those little violas "johnny jump-ups" ;-). In the
breeze,
> they always seem to be dancing and with "faces" like that, laughing at
their
> own little secrets.<
I saw a pansy, La Pensée, --Thought.
"And there is pansies, that's for thoughts." [Ophelia, in Hamlet.]
And everyone knows Pansy's have secrets. :-)
Che' de of the Little Flowers
William Jennings
>. It's been a bit dull here lately and I thought we needed some
color... or maybe it's me :-)<
It's you, the Whisperer, who was repaid in spades last month at OCCGS.
Che' de
betsey
hydrangeas are pretty easy. the first year you plant them, yep, they
take lots of water to get established, but after that, i've found them
pretty carefree. shade or partial shade means less water...and they
bloom just wonderfully in the shade.
i admit, i do have an addiction for hydrangeas. if i had my way, the
whole yard would be nothing but hydrangeas.....