Flower Memes

In Memoriam: One Summer Pink Mourning

2011-07-24T06:25:00.002+10:00

Hosted by Luis Santilli Jr - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

15 January 2010 My Farewell Unaware to Mom Mona

15 January 2010 from Blacktown Hospital hedge garden.

5 December 2010 from Mom Joan's backyard garden.

A beautifully ruffled Pink Carnation above I macronized from a bunch of Carnation bouquet I brought for Mom Mona when I visited her in Blacktown Hospital to what I had not known would be our last meeting as she passed away two weeks after and a Pink lacy-layered compound Pink Hibiscus (in the middle) that grew along the brick wall of the hospital that took my fancy are excellent compliments to this partially wilted Summer Pink Oleander from the backyard of Mom Joan. These are few of my hidden treasures that I found lately in my mystery box and it gave me an idea of posting them for Today's Flowers.

Cheers!

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Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum)

2011-06-15T10:02:00.001+10:00

The lisianthus, a member of the Gentianaceae family, is known for its many color varieties especially its blue tones and long vase life. Originating in the West Indies, Mexico, and Central and South America, the flower is known botanically as Eustoma grandiflorum. The common name comes from the Greek words lysis, meaning "dissolution," and anthos, meaning "flower," and alludes to the bitter quality of some medicinal species.

Source: Internet

7 January 2011

Flowers Info

2011-05-05T09:23:00.000+10:00

Source: JPG

The Snowdrop (Latin: Galanthus nivalis) is the first flower coming even out through the snow, forecasting the spring arrival. It is considered to be one of the most delicate flowers on Earth - a symbol of fragility and tenderness.

The Snowflake (Latin: Leucojum aestivum) is called also 'The Marsh Snowdrop' and appears a couple of weeks later, being more solid and brassy.

The Dandelion (Latin: Taraxacum officinale), you can meet them on every grass field... and not few at number. It is famous for its medicinal uses as a tea or eaten even fresh.

The Tulip (Latin: Tulipa) has the origins in Southern Europe, Northern Africa and Asia, where you can find it even on Iran's national flag. It includes over 100 species and in my country it is very, very popular.

The Elderberry (Latin: Sambucus nigra) is very well known as a medicinal tea flower or even used fresh for making of refreshing drinks. In the past, people put it in horses' mane in order to drive away the flies with its powerful smell.

The Chamomile (Latin: Matricaria chamomilla), maybe the most known medicinal flower on Earth, is very frequently met on the fields of my country. It has an apple like scent and in the past it was used as a dye to produce green color, but mostly for alternative therapy uses. For example, US National Library of Medicine lists over 100 separate diseases which chamomile has been traditionally used to treat.

The Forsythia (Latin: Forsythia) is also called "Golden Rain" because of the shining yellow flowers which bloom in the early spring, even before the leaves are produced. Forsythia had overtaken many European gardens and parks as an ornament flower.

Friday Floral Fun

2010-10-15T12:34:00.002+11:00

Navigating, exploring and playing with my photobucket; I came up with these scrapbook collage for fun. So far, I am not satisfied yet with my effort as I am only doing this on trial and error scale. Here's the three I created long ago.

Thank You Today's Flowers

2010-08-17T07:14:00.004+10:00

Please accept my appreciation to Today's Flowers Host Luis and his dynamic team for posting my contribution as Today's Flowers guest friend host.

Thank you very much to all for the heartwarming response to my entry. I must confess, this thing has been dreadfully slipped off my mind due to the chest and left arm pain I have endured since last week. I am slowing down at the moment and will be seeing my doctor today. I'll come back to give everyone my grateful kudos.

Agapanthus for my 60th Birthday in Today's Flowers

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

White Agapanthus from the village garden:

The first bloom of Blue Agapanthus from my own garden:

Interesting information of this perennial flowers can be read HERE.

Cheers!

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Pastel Hibiscus

2010-07-31T09:01:00.006+10:00

Macro Flowers Saturday

Maia T's Macro Meme

Sundowner
The Entrance NSW
21 October 2008

I am certainly drawn to the composite and delicate layer of this pastel coloured palette Hibiscus.

also for:

Macro Monday

Lisa's Chaos

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Yellow with Elegance

2010-07-29T19:12:00.063+10:00

Lily in Summer in Today's Flowers

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

and My Little

I tried searching the name of this particular variety of Lily. This attractive floral arrangement was displayed in Blacktown's X-Ray Office. With staff permission, I was allowed to take the picture.

In my Gardener's Encyclopedia book by Reader's Digest (1992 2nd reprint edition) the closest I can compare this with is Lily Golden Clarion Hybrids.

In Lily Gallery (http://www.s-wgardens.com/Catalog/lilygallery.php), it is closest to the American Way hybrid.

Yet, in another source (http://www.liliumbreeding.nl/home.html)nothing seems to be close to this kind.

Cheers!

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The Last Rose in Winter

2010-07-26T08:33:00.004+10:00

Rose whatever its name may be is my Monday's Today's Flowers Shout.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

Yap, that's it! In the vicinity of the compound where I live, this Rose stands out. Growing tall, slinky but sturdy stems and proud as its last bloom in our wintertime. The base you see on the top picture is starting to wilt due to morning frost. So I thought I would climb the brick hedge and reached out for this thorny stem; ducking my head down to keep my face away from network of thorns.

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Yellow Saving Grace

2010-07-12T12:16:00.002+10:00

In 2003, I bought this Yellow Rose from Coles Supermarket in Randwick; dying and lifeless. I took it home and planted in my backyard garden at Stanbury Place. Then we moved to Alford St. I did not want to upset the root as it had just established itself to the ground. I can only hope the people who live there now are looking after my plants I left behind.

White Lilium

2010-07-12T12:15:00.002+10:00

Isabel is a Portuguese Florist who worked in Randwick Shopping Mall, where I used to work as a Supervising Cleaner. She gave me this pot of White Lilium needing some tender loving care. I took it home and nourished it with three magic words. And it worked. Here is the proof!

Courgette by Another Name

2010-07-04T18:41:00.014+10:00

Monday is Today's Flowers.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

and My Little

Zucchini Flower

Zucchini or courgette is a small summer squash belonging to the species Cucurbita pepo with colours varying from green, light green and yellow.

The female flower is a golden blossom on the end of each emergent zucchini. The male flower grows directly on the stem of the zucchini plant in the leaf axils (where leaf petiole meets stem), on a long stalk, and is slightly smaller than the female. Both flowers are edible, and are often used to dress a meal or garnish the cooked fruit. ~ Wikipedia< blockquote>

Macro- Zucchini Flower

Lisa's Chaos

Also for:

Maia T's Macro Meme

Macro Tuesday by Cai

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Yellow Specks and Speckles

2010-06-29T16:20:00.000+10:00

Aster daisy or Michaelmas daisy

Garden Clinics has this to say:

Showy daisy-like heads flower late summer and autumn in a wide range of colours including blue, violet, purple, pink, red and white all with central disc of yellow or purple. Michaelmas daisy is a loose term which is often used to cover most of the taller species, although it strictly refers to Aster novi-belgii. The 'China asters' grown as bedding plants are now classified in the genus 'Callistephus'. Clouds of lilac-blue flowers has a long flowering season, summer right through to late autumn. Black arching stems. Grows to 90cm and spreads well. Vigorous and spreading.

Trumpets

2010-06-27T15:22:00.011+10:00

Today is Today's Flowers.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

and for

Lisa 's Chaos

Macro Tuesday

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho

This is one of the plants I planted in my garden in Quakers Hill. And multitude of pesky snails loved to take residence around the yard with successive rainfall inducing growth of their numbers. I collected them, crushed them and put them back to the soil as organic fertilizer. 'Want not, waste not.'

Despite the onslaught of the snails, the blooms kept coming pretty generous.

Amazingly, the ones I planted in my present area did not bear flowers. But that is the least of my worry at the moment.

Also for:

Cheers!

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In my old Alford home
Quakers Hill
2006-2007

Giant Tree Bloom and Green Crawly for Today's Flowers

2010-06-20T18:35:00.003+10:00

Today is Today's Flowers.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

Oh I got lost with this one. Fancy I did not record the name of this giant tree that lined the street going to the Government House of NSW that I visited sometime ago.

This lemon yellow flower was hanging from this particular giant tree that caught my attention but didn't bother taking the detail. I have painstakingly tried to study if this flower belongs to the Hill's Weeping Fig (Ficus microcarpa var hillii) using google search, that also lined the opposite side of this avenue where this tree grow but it isn't making any sense because as I macroscopically scrutinized the composition of the leaves of this yellow bloom, it doesn't seem to match with that of the fig tree. I don't know. I don't want to mislead anyone. Maybe someone can help me identify this plant.

[I'll do my homework next time I will go back there. Not this season. Too cold to be gallivanting.]

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Purple Iris for Today's Flowers

2010-06-14T03:36:00.007+10:00

Today is Today's Flowers.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred
flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages.
Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved
women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to
take the souls of women to the Elysian fields.

~Hana No Monogatari ~

By virtue of its word meaning, Iris means a rainbow and that it also symbolizes eloquence. A purple Iris is symbolic of wisdom and compliments.

Scientific Monogram:

Kingdom
Plantae

Division
Magnoliophyta

Class
Liliopsida

Order
Asparagales

Family
Iridaceae

Genus
Iris

Source: The Flower Expert

Flowers provided by my church friend Lis.

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A Rose for All Reasons in Today's Flowers

2010-06-07T07:28:00.003+10:00

Today is Today's Flowers.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

"Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within."~ Chinese Proverb

Being inactive in the meme world ... I call this one a postdated entry. And there's plenty to come for all the reasons beyond each past season.

The above plants grow in our compound. The owner became an onlooker while a strange passerby clicked the button of her camera (Me).

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Flower Gardens for Today's Flowers

2010-05-30T23:55:00.004+10:00

They are Here.

TF team Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Sandy Carlson

I have been always curious what is there to see in the Government House, the seat of the State Governor General of New South Wales. Its area is part of Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens which is located on the west wing of Sydney Opera House.

So one day, I satisfied that curiosity by walking about the area alone by myself and the entry is free, so I secured myself a ticket to join a Guided Tour inside the premise.

After the tour, we were allowed to roam free around the vicinity and it was only then we could take pictures.

Cheers!

Hibiscus

2010-05-18T10:12:00.021+10:00

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My fascination of Hibiscus flowers will never fade. They are classified as annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or trees that belong to the mallow (Malvaceae) family with more than 200 varieties growing in warm temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions of the world.

In Australia, they bloom throughout the year.

They come in variable foliage that ranges from light green to dark green. The leaves can be poplar-shaped, to maple-like palmately lobed, to broadly elliptical. They are mostly grown for their large, open, bell- to funnel-shaped flowers, borne as single flowers or in clusters. They are made up of 5 overlapping petals with a central column of fused stamens. Flower colors include white, yellow, and orange as well as dramatic pinks, purples, and reds.

Besides their delightful appearance, they have many medicinal uses as many of us would imagine. Click here for their MEDICINAL IMPORTANCE.

One of the things I learned about them at home and at school is that, they are used as hair grower.

I took these flowers in Broadmeadow, New South Wales during my weekend away not long ago visiting a friend up on the north.

"You always admire what you really don't understand. ~Eleanor Roosevelt~"

Thanks for the Comments:

1. Lois (reason being my comment can't get through yours).

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Orange Jasmine for Today's Flowers

2010-01-10T15:59:00.005+11:00

My 2010 Entry #2

Thank You Luis Santilli Jr for this wonderful floral bouquet meme.

There's more flowers here in Today's Flowers with TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

The Shrub for Today's Flowers: Murraya paniculata

This Jasmine-like foliage with orange blossom-like white flowers grows in our vicinity. It has a sweet perfume and blooms from orange to red berries in spring. It is popular for hedging or screen planting and grows to 3 metres high by 3 metres wide.

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Soft Pink Hibiscus

2010-01-07T14:09:00.001+11:00

Taken during my walkabout in the city last Tuesday, January 5, 2010, my first post New Year outing. This famous shrub is growing in one of the city parks opposite Pitt St going up to Central Railway Station.

Australian Native Flora - Protaceae

2010-01-04T06:25:00.023+11:00

My First Entry to 2010

Happy New Year Luis Santilli Jr and your Wonderful Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

There's more flowers here in Today's Flowers with TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it is a fairly large family, with around 80 genera but fewer than 2000 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea, Hakea, Dryandra and Macadamia. Species such as the New South Wales Waratah (Telopea speciosissima), King Protea (Protea cynaroides), and various species of Banksia, Grevillea, and Leucodendron are popular cut flowers, while the nuts of Macadamia integrifolia are widely commercially grown and consumed.

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Bed of Chrysanthemum

2009-12-31T02:16:00.000+11:00

August 13, 2009

Pink Poinsettia

2009-12-31T01:58:00.000+11:00

Thanks to Jenny.

Floral Essence

2009-12-20T20:38:00.009+11:00

My 14th Entry

Thank you Luis Santilli Jr for creating Today's Flowers for us and your Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

There's more flowers here in Today's Flowers with TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

Today's Flower comes from my garden. I don't know the name of this flower. It's a shrub with long thick leaves. This was feasted by snails so I pruned the old branches. It came out more dense and compact.

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Say it with Flowers - Floral Friday

2009-12-18T00:00:00.006+11:00

Wanna join the FUN?

Ah what can we do with flowers? Taken last July 18, 2009, five moons ago.

Tangerine Lilium

2009-12-17T13:41:00.001+11:00

I took this last October 30, 2009 in Canberra during the funeral of our beloved former Minister, Mr Rob Barnett.

Beautiful Daisy

2009-12-17T13:37:00.002+11:00

This grows along the roadside lawn on the street where I live. The owner just watched me as I took these pictures.

A Purple Butterfly

2009-12-17T13:26:00.003+11:00

Please don't take my word for it. I don't know the name of this flower. It grows in a shrub. They bloom in semi-cluster. This is found within the village where I live.

Yellow Shamrock

2009-12-14T00:06:00.009+11:00

My 13th Entry

Thank you Luis Santilli Jr for creating Today's Flowers for us and your Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

There's more flowers here in Today's Flowers with TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

I saw this plant growing in the front lawn of one of the houses I pass by in going to the shop or the train station. And it's my first time to see this famous weeds or three-leaf grasses bearing yellow flowers. So I stopped and clicked the shutter. What fascinates me was the unusual colour for I thought clover blooms are white?

Anyway, I checked this out in Wikipedia, so I can add a bit of flavour with my posting. I have been becoming too monotonous these days. Not up to blogging with substance.

The shamrock is a symbol of Ireland. It is a three-leafed old white clover. It is sometimes of the variety Trifolium repens (a white clover, known in Irish as seamair bhán) but today usually Trifolium dubium (a lesser clover, Irish: seamair bhuí).

The diminutive version of the Irish word for "clover" ("seamair") is "seamróg", which was anglicised as "shamrock", representing a close approximation of the original Irish pronunciation. However, other three-leafed plants — such as black medic (Medicago lupulina), red clover (Trifolium pratense), and wood-sorrel (genus Oxalis) — are sometimes designated as shamrocks. The shamrock was traditionally used for its medical properties and was a popular motif in Victorian times. It is also a common way to represent Saint Patrick's Day.

However, there is an even much more interesting tidbits I found on the internet courtesy by BBC News UK. Read on this link.

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Tulips from Amsterdam

2009-12-06T22:19:00.002+11:00

These floral pictures were sent by someone from Amsterdam very very long time ago. Whether this is her own photograph or was copied from somewhere, how would I know?

But I do have personal encounter with a sea of tulips in Canberra around 1995 during the Floriade Festival. I will look for them, scan then post. It's only a matter of time and diligence to do it.

Flowers from Taupo's Waipahihi Botanical Reserve

2009-12-06T22:15:00.003+11:00

Over two-thousands of them, Rhododendrons were planted in this Botanical Reserve along with azaleas and camellias.

Pink Diapanthus

2009-12-03T22:34:00.002+11:00

Will give this shot to Floral-Friday #1

From Nancy's garden right here in our little village.

For My 22nd Migration Anniversary

2009-12-03T00:46:00.004+11:00

In commemoration of my 22nd Migration Anniversary - December 2, 1997; the day I arrived Australia.

Soft Pink Rose

2009-12-03T00:24:00.001+11:00

June 13, 2009

White Lilium for Saturday

2009-12-02T23:54:00.004+11:00

June 6, 2009

Australian Flora in deep Pink

2009-12-02T23:13:00.001+11:00

April 4, 2009

Australian Flora - one in deep blue

2009-12-02T23:11:00.001+11:00

March 28, 2009

Daisy

2009-12-02T23:08:00.001+11:00

May 30, 2009

White Lilium

2009-12-01T23:39:00.003+11:00

My floral offering for the church last November 28, 2009. I don't know the exact name of this orange daisy flowers. They somewhat resembles Gerbera or African Daisy and they look beautiful. I bought this from Aldi Store here in our area, about 8 minutes walk from where I live.

Mini Geranium from Lithgow

2009-12-01T23:23:00.002+11:00

In our first and only stop at Lithgow from the city to Orange, I got out from the car just to click my shutter for this huge pot with mini-pink Geranium, flowering generously. I just call it mini because of the miniature leaves of the plant. November 22, 2009

Rhododendron

2009-12-01T23:00:00.004+11:00

Taken during my recent trip to Orange, New South Wales, my former hometown for 15 years. This red Rhododendron grows right in the much loved and famous Cook Park, once a winner of the National Garden Park Competition. November 22, 2009

White Rose

2009-12-01T22:55:00.003+11:00

One that stands out amongst Nancy's Rose Garden in our little village garden she maintains with the help of fellow residents. Taken last 24th October 2009

Summer Rose in My Little Village

2009-12-01T22:51:00.001+11:00

Hydrangea

2009-11-24T19:16:00.004+11:00

We call this a Million Dollar Flower in our locality back in my country. It's foliage are quite impressive, with large, dark green oval leaves, often with serrated edges. Flowerheads are made up of very small fertile flowers surrounded by larger, eye-catching, 4-petalled, sterile florets, and usually emerge in spring and summer.

Colors range from white through to red, purple, and blue.

A member of the mallow (Malvaceae) family, this flower grows in warm, temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions of the world.

Hydrangea features lush foliage and large flamboyant blooms in vibrant colors. In other places, these plants are grown not only for their great beauty, but also for their edible leaves and flowers. It can also be trimmed to shape and make effective hedging or screening plants.

Flowering Season: Summer, Spring

Source: Gardening Australia

Homemade Floral Arrangement by Jan

2009-11-18T13:58:00.003+11:00

This floral arrangement is done by Jan, our local Elder's wife. Before she came into our little congregation, we ladies in the church used to take turn in bringing fresh flowers for the service. Upon her arrival, she made it sure that none of us will be burdened as flowers are very expensive to buy. We have flowers right here in our village but am too shy to ask. People don't usually pick flowers from the garden. My own flowers are not much to take anyway and I often forget that I have grown right in my own place.

What has attracted me to the simplicity of the arrangement is this old-fashioned flower vase, a very very old one. It has a base covered with velvet. The TV Antique Roadshow helped me to identify the genuineness of an antique item. So that's what I am doing now each time I see an old ware like this one.

Incidentally, I found out that the Curio Shops or Opportunity Shops here in our area have learned the trade of overpricing items which are normally given to them by willing donors if they think that the item is valuable.

Cheers!

Fuschia

2009-11-16T02:10:00.006+11:00

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Mostly climbing or spreading shrubs, fuchsias have deep green, heavily veined leaves that grow in whorls on the stems. The pendulous flowers have long tubes with flared sepals and often contrastingly colored petals, mostly in shades of red, white, pink, and purple, as well as bicolored. The garden hybrids usually have rounded flowers with a skirt of large sepals around an often double corolla. Fleshy berries, usually with many seeds, follow the flowers.

Source: Plant Profile

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Red Vine for Today's Flower November 2009

2009-10-25T21:19:00.005+11:00

It's My Number 13th

Kudos to the Blog Creator, Luis Santilli Jr and Team!

Today's Flowers is on offer as florally created by Luis Santilli Jr. It's time to visit Today's Flowers and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board:Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

I took these photos from my friend Jacqui's backyard two years ago. There was this trellis attached to the fence that served as a barrier to give cover to a cute shed as a detached laundry room with utmost privacy.

This vine beautifully climbs to the trellis having broad green thick leaves that blooms in scarcity. The redness of which is bright yet soft and the closed stamens flash like a little incandescent bulbs. Jacqui was not home at the time I took these photos and for some reason, it did not occur to me to ask her the name of this floral vine.

I tried searching for this flower via google to no avail. I am not sure if this is local or imported vine but it was the first time I saw this kind. The petals of the flower alone made me think of Tinker Bell and Peter Pan as my imagination went far to Neverland.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey

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Imported Today's Flowers from Karaka Tree Motel

2009-10-18T20:57:00.013+11:00

My 11th Entry

Thank you Luis Santilli Jr for creating Today's Flowers for us and your Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

To all the gardeners, horticulturists, and flower enthusiasts let's give Today's Flowers a big Hurray! It's time to visit Today's Flowers
and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

When I saw these orchids first time, I said to the owner, "are those orchids real?" Roger, the husband of Ann, replied, "yes, they are real."

"Well, they look plastic to me!" So I went near to touch it and they were real indeed! And Roger laughed. I took a close up or macro shot, but there's internal error that it can't be uploaded. So I hope this shot will do.

A bonus of beautiful clusters of Azaleas.

I don't know the name of these flowers. I just took it outside the Karaka Tree Motel where we stayed in Taupo, New Zealand recently.

Check out the link for more interesting read and pictures.

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Home Sweet Home

2009-09-06T00:21:00.010+10:00

My old home in Central Tableland called Orange. When my girls and I first moved in, the place looked so desolate. It was plain, weedy vegetation thriving with hard rock soil. I built this garden from scratches without any chemical aid. My pride of organic gardening using kitchen scraps to soften and break the clayish red ground.

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Homegrown Succulents

2009-09-05T22:27:00.002+10:00

Homegrown succulent beauties. They propagate like mad in my backyard. These plants do not require maintenance. You just plant and forget them. Yet, when they bloom, you really cannot escape wondering how their starlike blooms shine at daytime your eyes can't help but notice. They grow in semi shady place.

Azaleas in Today's Flowers

2009-09-05T20:52:00.034+10:00

My 10th Entry

Thank you Luis Santilli Jr for creating Today's Flowers for us and your Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

To all the gardeners, horticulturists, and flower enthusiasts let's give Today's Flowers a big Hurray! It's time to visit Today's Flowers
and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~Abram L. Urban

How nature works is clearly visible in this Azalea flower. The original color is pink as can be seen below the white with pinkish taint.
This is part of the garden landscape grown along the pathway outside my unit.

This is the original Pink Azalea of the same shrub as above and from below.

And this is the main plant of the pink-white Azalea. Like the lilac colour, this was also trimmed or pruned.

There is no other way I can describe this pretty Azalea in lilac hue. In just one shrub, how this sturdy plant gives off copious blooms.
Their buds spurt from this shrub generously.

When they finished blooming last year, I pruned them to discourage growth as they have the tendency to grow very high. I wanted them to look dwarfy but bushy. But nature cannot suppress their growth anyway. So I thought, I will try to eliminate overcrowding of branches to give more room for the flowers to spread out. And it looks like my idea works.

This is how this Azalea looked last year. My space is small with enough room to fill with garden delights*.

"Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity." ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com

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Last Bloom

2009-09-01T17:56:00.009+10:00

A thorny rose plant grows below my bedroom window.

When I first moved in, the season was heading towards summer of 2007. Then by fall, this prickly plant suddenly came into
view among the bushes

and it bloomed. It was too late for me to realize that this plant existed right in my little garden patch. Rather than letting the
cold season ruined this flower, I cut it and put it in a flower vase to decorate my bedroom.

At that time, I was busy working and was almost away from home with little time to regularly attend to my own garden.
The reason I did not notice it was because this elusive plant lays hidden behind the bushy plants.

The blooming however was irregular. When the next summer came in 2008 this same beautiful rose plant bloomed again
and having been unattended, the flower wilted in the hot afternoon sun. My bedroom window faces west. Even the western
summer sun is too intensed for some plants.

I was still very lucky to be able to catch the last glimpse of this rose and managed to take a snapshot.

Cheers!

Miniature Garden for Today's Flowers

2009-08-23T18:07:00.011+10:00

My 9th Entry

Kudos to the Blog Creator, Luis Santilli Jr and his Team! Thank You Very Much!!!

Today's Flowers is on offer as florally created by Luis Santilli Jr. It's time to visit Today's Flowers and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board:Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

A family holiday to UK landed a couple to create this miniature village in Canberra and is now the number one drawcard in Tourism in that Capital City of Australia. So welcome to COCKINGTON GREEN GARDENS!. This is only a partial entry. There will be another stop next Monday. Enjoy!

The Passage

The wonder of a mini digital camera ... mine when it was still working.

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Patience at Lake Entrance 640

2009-08-20T12:39:00.004+10:00

From the FOT 2008 held at Lake Entrance, this Patience was grown in the town's Remembrance Park.

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2008

Birthday Flower for Meghan

2009-08-19T11:24:00.005+10:00

Meghan is a Canadian Dental Intern at Westmead Dental Hospital. In gratitude to her kindness and cheerful assistance to Ramesh, and for her warm friendship, I brought her a little surprise packed in a birthday gift bag and decorated it with red Azalea coming from the side wall garden of my unit. She is also celebrating her Leo natal sign this coming Saturday, 22nd of August.

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2009

Purple Vines

2009-08-18T22:29:00.007+10:00

Growing over the fence of Westmead Railway Station. The elongated leaves look like that of
another specie of Eucalyptus.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson
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I took these photos this morning on the way home from Westmead Dental Hospital.

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From the Garden of Mom Joan

2009-08-18T22:19:00.005+10:00

Taken 15 August 2009 in Blacktown.

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Floral Birthday with Today's Flowers

2009-08-16T22:13:00.010+10:00

#9

Kudos to the Blog Creator, Luis Santilli Jr and Team!

Today's Flowers is created by Luis Santilli Jr. It's time to visit Today's Flowers all over the world to appreciate and smell those sweet scented delights. TF Team on Board: Santilli - Denise - Pupo - Valkyrien

It is with pleasure to share with you some flowers produced from the garden of our compound where I currently live. And today, Monday the 17th, is my birthday. What a better way to spend it in a very special way!

This Pink Rose was planted and maintained by our fellow resident, Nancy.

A perfect Pastel Pink Rose buds grown from Nancy's Rose garden beds.

Fragrant White Gardenia. At home, we call it Rosal. Its strong scent wafts day and night throughout our tiny village, as what I call our place by name.

Red Azalea undried from the fresh morning shower. It's growing along my wall side through the passage.

Pink Camilla with raindrops came sliding down its petals from the fresh morning shower.

To be a sweet as a Red, red Rose ... a little girl like me just grow and grow and grow.

White Agapanthus... kind of bulbs ...easy to plant and then forget till they bloom.

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2007-2008

Tangerine Easter Cactus 800

2009-08-14T21:03:00.006+10:00

A sparkling velvety floral satin. It's Easter Cactus in Australia.

My source of pride and joy. This would be my signature flower Red Thumb! The origin of this plant was from my friend Olivia.
As her family was moving into a new house, she asked me to help her with the packing. It was a huge job to do but I found great
delight in helping her. We help each other when it is needed. So it's nice to have someone around whom you can turn to now and then.

She gave me one pot of this flower and it just took off there. When my girls were gone, I could not bring everything with me, so this
plant along with others had found new homes and I hope the new owners tend to them just like I do.

My plants are happy with me and they do grow very healthy. You can tell it by the way they grow and multiply. They proliferate
faster than human beings do. Now I have started to grow one, I think, this time, it's purplish red. Let's wait and see. In no time, they too will be in their blooming spree.

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2005-2007

Pink Easter Cactus 800

2009-08-14T21:02:00.001+10:00

The pale pinky counterpart of the previous posts. Enjoy!

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In Alford old home
Quakers Hill, NSW
2005-2007

Autumn Rose Bloom

2009-08-14T20:41:00.006+10:00

Yes, dears, this is from my garden too. In my latest place of residence. The last bloom in autumn of 2008.

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In my new home
Close to Blacktown
Taken in 2008

Red and Rare Hibiscus

2009-08-14T09:56:00.001+10:00

From the Roadside in Whale Beach

Single-Petalled Hibiscus

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From Mosman

From Sundowner, The Entrance

Double-Petalled Hibiscus

2009-08-14T09:21:00.004+10:00

From Julie's garden in Whale Beach 2006

Yellow Orchids

2009-08-14T04:23:00.002+10:00

From the Hawkesbury Orchids Show held in Blacktown.

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Lilac Flowers

2009-08-14T04:11:00.006+10:00

Taken at the frontyard of Westmead Medical Clinic.

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Day Lily 800

2009-08-14T03:57:00.004+10:00

Church flowers.

from Westmead Hospital Flowers Shop, 11th August 2009.

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Pilgrimage Chrysanthemum 800

2009-08-14T03:46:00.004+10:00

Taken at Berrima, NSW, 13 August 2009.

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Desert Rose

2009-08-14T03:05:00.002+10:00