D I N A H M O W
at the
Garden Photos Event
with the
Sensitive Weed!
I am going to try sending some garden pics. Well, you managed it, Dinahmow. On the day, if my memory marbles have not rolled away, I'll try to put more on my blog! And you managed that, too! But huge thanks, in advance, for hosting the garden party. Ooh! Did I say "party"? I wonder if there will be crocque em bouche and Black Forest? She's thinking of this.
These are in the garden at the "old house" and I think they count as it was only a couple of months ago!
Yesterday (17th October), my former next door neighbour was working in her garden so I ambled over the road and had scrounge! The dark red oleander that I planted years ago now towers over the fence and rather a lot of it is on her side. So she handed me her secateurs and I cut an armful for cuttings. And she took some as well for her m-i-l who lives two houses up.
But wait! There's more... one of the Strelitzia nicolai is almost pushing the fence down, so we "pruned" that, too! Isn't it a gorgeous blue!
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Thank you, Dinahmow, for that taste of the tropical! And I hope the Weed Police didn't catch up with you?
In a couple of days time it will be Ms Scarlet's turn - and this time she won't be sharing with anyone else!
This is good. Gives me something to work on for next year. These photos are stunning. Thanks for hosting, dear. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteDinahmow always gives good flowerhead!
DeleteIf the Garden Photos Event can inspire, then our work here is done. Remember: the Garden Photos Even is NOT a competition, so no one will be judging.
WOW! As working in a floral shop right now, Dinah has some very pricey stems in her garden....many of them fetch between $8 and $16 a stem here. My green thumb wouldn't know where to start with growing these gems. Brava!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNow if Scarlet is next, I hope someone has the platter of Rocher Ferrero ready?
Maddie, dear, most of what I grow is (fairly) easily propagated.That said, Strelitzia nicolai, in a pot and with one flower bud is almost $50..yikes!
DeleteDid someone say Ferrero Rocher?!?
Delete* eyes the surrounding area hungrily *
I love the ambivalent nature of M (Mugger) Pudica, that it's so terribly shy but attempts to kill it just increase it and it's wildly invasive. Actually I love all the plants on here and I vote for Dinahmow's garden!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hound. You wouldn't love the sensitive weed if you stepped on it!
DeleteMay I remind you that the Garden Photos Event is NOT a competition!
DeleteYou can remind me all you like, I'm a dog and don't understand.
DeleteDoes it sting or something? I had a former colleague who went to work in Australia. He was frightened of spiders and as I foretold it didn't end well!
No giant spiders (who eat one man an afternoon) ? No dead, poisonous toads (that died from their own poison by accident) ? No rocketworms (or whatever lurks there in the outback) ? Are you sure these pics came from Dinahmow ?
ReplyDeletehaha! Yes, all from my yard. Well, some at the new house, but all mine.
Delete'Rocketworms'? Now there's a thing...
DeleteSimply fab-u-lous as always, Dinah!
ReplyDeleteBe a dear and send us a few blooms in the post, would you? I need to trim a new hat. Jx
Ooh! I could just see you at Gay Pride with S.nicolai behind you ear!Perhaps an Anthurium boutonniere?
DeleteSweetie - if I were to do a hat proper justice, it would be covered with at least two dozen Syzigium wilsonii blossoms... Jx
DeleteTouche! I bet you WOULD go all Gertrude Shilling, too.
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I loved Mrs Shilling! Her replacement was rather fab, too (I doubt very much Mrs Claridge is still with us either)... Jx
DeletePS David was rather cute in his day. Funny he never married... Jx
hahaha! We are the Waspish Duellistas.
DeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteI miss my little flowers already..
XOXO
Dratted Autumn/Winter! Still, what about your terrariums, Sixpence? You've still got time to send in a few photos if you'd like to take part?
DeleteVan Gogh moved to Arles in order to see and be inspired by more and brighter colours. He would have LOVED the colour in Dinahmow's garden.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should say that...several people have said similar things.
Deleteand became depressed and cut his ear off. I'd cut one of my tits off, scoop out the flesh and wear it on my head as a beret if I had to live there. I'm talking about Arles, not Dinah's lovely garden and that Ixora is spectacular, I've only seen them in red, I would have dug it up and taken it with me.
ReplyDeleteThat yellow Ixora is a real knock-out.I wish I had dug it out and brought it down the street! I'm having hell's own trouble finding one in a store.In this garden I have a stunning true red and a lipstick-y pink, but no yellows.Yet.
DeleteFreaking dumbfounded. AND jealous! All those bold forms and colors are incredible!
ReplyDeleteSteve/Paul/Nations...I'll try to get some more pictures over at my sad blog later today.Maybe I'll be brave and show you the ugly truth...
ReplyDeletethese are all so lovely! I can't say that I even have a "favorite" because I like several!
ReplyDeleteBeautyful!
ReplyDeleteDinah's garden is always so exotic! And bright, and lush. AND, she has a pool. Yes, I am jealous as well.
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I'm considering a bed of Drag Queen.
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