In Proximity to Purple
a Garden Photos Event installation by
M E L A N I E
Here we are in Melanie's garden for the ninth stop on the Garden Photos Event tour. Let's see what she has for us:
Budding Camelia
Chive blooms
Hibiscus
Ceanothus 'Dark Star' closeup
Magnolia
Red Hot Poker
I love purples and blues in the garden. Can you tell?
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I'm particularly proud of the thriving venus flytrap. It was nearly dead when a gardening friend showed me how to make a proper bog pot for it. I think I'll make a big bog garden next year. I've also decided to call the property Fernmire. Am I turning into a bog witch or something?
Quite possibly, Melanie. Quite possibly...
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In answer to 'questions' about her Terrifying Triffid tree (above, far left), Melanie had this to say:
Yes, that tree does look rather suggestive. It looks better in black and white though. The City parks dept boys need to stop molesting it so much with their trimmers.
It reminds me of a play I went to called "Quills." A one man play and the actor spent the entire time on stage naked and monologuing. Not being a man, I wondered what he would do if he got a hard-on during a performance, just act through I suppose. At any rate, near the end of it he becomes the devil and turns around with three well-hung dongs. This tree actually has three good sized erect dongs, er, branches.
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Melanie, thank you for sharing your purple prowess in the garden!
Next up at the Garden Photos Event is a mystery guest, so come back in a couple of days to see what's on show.
Oh, how delicious! Fuchsias [I think that may be Deep Purple, of which we have two; one trailing and one a standard] and ferns are mainstays in our garden, and Ceanothus and Camellia are among our favourite plants - if a bit too demanding for a rented property reliant entirely on growing in pots, methinks.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite of all flowers, however [well, perhaps in a close tie with Fuchsias], must be Magnolia - and that one is an absolute beauty!
I feel like it's Spring again. Sigh. Jx
There's a massive Ceanothus* at the side of the track up at the allotments here that is always absolutely covered in honeybees when its in flower. Covered!
Delete* Ceanothus always reminds me Star Wars Ep 2 because it sounds so similar to the planet Geonosis.
Monsters in the garden, how lovely!
ReplyDeleteIt makes gardening that bit more exciting, Norma!
DeleteI suspect even the most seasoned actor would have enough stage fright that the blood would be at his extremities ready to run rather than in his membrum virile. Personally I find the fuschias more suggestive than anything else and hope this doesn't mean I'm turning straight in my old age. I do love your garden and would happily dig in it. ��
ReplyDeleteOoh and there's your bog pot!
DeleteI think it's called a po, Hound?
DeleteThis all looks wonderfully lush! I love the top picture in particular - and I wish I'd known the secret of a good bog for when I had a Venus Fly Trap many moons ago. The poor thing died - even though I tried to feed it [I was a teenager, please forgive me.]
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I can't speak for Melanie, but I forgive you, Ms Scarlet - because I too was a teenage Venus Fly Trap killer!
DeleteAll that glorious purple reminds me of Beast’s purple Lurex posing pouch .
ReplyDeleteOh, the relief! Beast's not in it!
Delete(Why do I still click the links? Why haven't I learned?!?)
WOW!!!! I'm am loving all the blues and purples...and I just adore anything hanging beautifully. The fuchsia here again, are stunning.
ReplyDeleteSo Melanie was the corrupt of these creative triffids close ups. Love the Fly Traps.
And adore them even more when they stand to attention, Maddie?
DeleteThis is devotion of a whole 'nother level. Wow. Just gorge. You had me at fuchsia and ferns. But the venus flytraps! To die for. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteTo die for, you say, Upton? Let's just hope Melanie doesn't run out of things to feed them, otherwise you might find your offer taken up...
DeleteI also adore fuschias, but I'm not in the right climate for them.I could probably treat them as annuals...even then, they might struggle.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with you on the blues.Have you tried sea holly?(Eringo) Again, it would struggle here.
We did have a rather good pitcher plant a few years ago and I never gave it chlorinated water, but it just withered away...
Shouldn't pitchers be filled with beer or cocktails?
DeleteOof! Where is Melanie? I've had to answer these comments myself! As if I haven't got enough to do...
ReplyDelete* grumble grumpf *
* considers visiting neglected blogs but decides on having a bath instead *
Now I've had to picture you nekkid.
DeleteOh, dear... I hope you furnished your minds eye with sunglasses and a sick bag?
DeleteThank you everyone for the all the lovely comments! I'm sorry I wasn't here to be a better sport full of banter! IDV Thank you for being the kind and gracious host that you are! I'll know to be more careful about what musings I pop in your email! Hahaha. Now that I know how this all works, I'll do better at providing better commentary for the garden tour next year.
ReplyDeleteAlas, this was a tragic weekend, entirely too eventful! There was a sudden death, police activity and me running off to rescue a friend with naught more than a toothbrush. I'm back home now. Exhausted, but so happy to hold my little family a bit closer. As long as I have them, I'm all right.
Thanks again, Everyone! Your lovely comments mean a lot to me!
Oh, Melanie! What a weekend! I hope you have a restful week to make up for it. Absolutely no worries about being elsewhere - you're here now. And we'll never let you leave! Mwah hah hah hah haa-
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Sorry. Don't know what came over me. I think it must be exhaustion from all that commenting I had to do... ;)
Dinah adds note to shopping list: check availability of pitchers (nepenthe and saracenia) large enough to act as booze carafes...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip IDV
Dinah - Not pictured is my struggling Pitcher plant. I need to re-examine its bog pot to determine what's wrong. Maybe the volunteer rush that joined it is the culprit. I thought they looked very nice together, but maybe the rush is strangling the pitcher's down below. Its true that rain water is ideal for them.
DeleteI've always had a soft spot for Red Hot Pokers!
ReplyDeleteLove the Venus Fly Trap.
I primarily stick to native plants that can manage themselves, but the Red Hot Poker is one of those exception that gets to join the habitat for being able to "playing well with others" and low maintenance.
DeleteI thought her Terrifying Triffid's were brilliant. And the opening shot, is that a columbine? One of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteMelanie's Columbine/granny's Bonnet/Aquilegia is my favourite of their many varieties. I'd been trying to grow a double purple & white one like that for years, but the seeds would never come true. Then this year, quite by chance, one grew up at my allotment!
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