Style: Consider a mix of cottage garden and Mediterranean-inspired plants, combining elements of both styles for a visually appealing and calming atmosphere. Seasonal interest: Look for plants that offer color, texture, and interest throughout the year. This can include spring and summer-blooming f...
I found these guys sleeping on a public beach only a few decimeters from the surf with their mother about two meters away. Many people walking up the beach passed them in a small distance. I’m sitting about 3-4 meters away from them. Surprisingly, only because I was sitting there, di...
Part of the hospital is still used as an asylum, but one can still see van Gogh’s bedroom and the tubs used for the ice cold baths to reduce his choleric humors. But outside, one can still see the orchard which inspired his painting, and iris are still blooming in the garden. Later...
More fall blooming snowdrops, these in a cold pocket which wilts them down but usually they recover… unless it’s ‘Mrs Macnamara’ who does not recover yet still grows quite well in spite of the beating. This winter seems off to an Arctic start but I’m still not biting my nails ...
Siris (Albizia lebbeck) It is also known as Indian walnut, shack shack, rattlepod and Woman’s Tongue, the names derived from its pods with seeds inside. The generic name Albizia is named after the Italian naturalist Albizzi. Lebbeck is the rattling noise of its seeds in the pod. The tr...
Today while admiring some late summer/fall blooming plants I spotted a male longhorn bee sleeping on a sunflower (Helianthus sp.). I’m still not sure which species, but have been trying to compare phyllaries to possible suspects and will update once I figure it out. ***Edit – after ...
Behind the fence in a small niche, almost unseen, a single purple & white iris was in full bloom. Its soul was in that blooming, totally unconcerned whether I or anyone else saw it, admired it, or gave it an award. It was simply Spirit in all of its magnificence. Well, at that ...
The plunger and ink… a most modern way to line up an Iris…. Squelching the wax block back out of the socket, and we were done…. the temporary one was put back in and Eye Lady (not her real name) bagged up the wax block with the plunger on and told me that it would be aro...
You get to see my mother’s day flowers blooming by our backdoor, views from the marina, an accidental shot of beach sand when I was trying to put… July 11, 2017Home and Garden iPhoneography Photos Shades of Blue Shades of Blue: Part 3 I’d better pick up the pace with these...
Kenya’s Evans Chebet stopped the clock at 2:05:02 at the Buenos Aires Marathon on Sunday, breaking the South American all-comers’ record in the process at the IAAF Bronze Label road race. Chebet was joined by compatriots Daniel Kibet, Allan Kiprono and Reuben Kipyego through the first ha...