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Seeing Red* with
D I N A H M O W
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| Megaskepasma flower (AKA Brazilian red-cloak) |
Welcome to the first garden of 2022's Garden Photos Event: Dinahmow's! (Well, the second, if you count The Very Mistress's dandelions and mallard in the previous post...)
As with previous GPEs, I'll be taking a back seat and letting the gardener talk us through their garden. As long as they provided enough - or any - captions, of course.
Dinah labelled her photos and managed one or two captions, so I'll leave her to it. After I've said just enough to get us to the bottom of the photo on the right, that is:
Dinah's current abode (above) can barely be made out in the thicket of Dracaena, Megaskepasma erythrochlamys, and whatever that tree is on the right of the photo.
* Because rather a lot of Dinah's tropical triffidery have red shaded blooms & leaves (and she's even published some more, here).
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Hibiscus 'Ritzy'
[which unwittingly became one of Dinah's Terrifying Triffids.
Well, a bit of it did, anyway...]
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Dracaena fragrans
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Back steps
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Arroyo
[And now, back to "ye olde days"...]
Just some I've unearthed from a few years ago at the old jungle.
Because these are from ye olde days, do they still count?
[Mais oui!]
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Hippeastrum at the old house [October 2020]
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The Drag Queen was absolutely glorious last time I saw it.
But the back-hoe did for it.
[Poor Dinah's garden at her old house was razed by the new owners
- who then did nothing with it!]
Grevillea at the old house [July 2020]
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Brugmansia old place [September 2019]
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Macrozamia - possibly M. michellii (or a triffid...)
[I just cannot unsee those horrid, skittering sea lice, now. Sorry, Dinah]
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Water droplets on Grevillea (un-named) [2018. Just beautiful!]
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Bulbophyllum graveolens [2018]
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This was August 2018
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The wisteria flowered beautifully in its early days, then sulked [July 2006]
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Salvia [June 2005]
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Dichorysandra thyrsiflora [March 2005]
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Thank you Dinah for that wonderful show!
Next up: Mitzi's invited us to come over. She likes that kind of thing, apparently...
WOW!
ReplyDelete[that was a case of "premature ejaculation, sorry - didn't mean to post a one-word comment]
DeleteI've said it before, and I'll say it again - we in the murk of the UK can only dream of having a garden as exotic! Apart from salvias and wisteria, there's bugger all in this selection that would be considered a "garden plant" here in the UK; even the dracaeneas and brugmansia are a bit tender.
A great start, Dinah 👍🍾😲!! Jx
Thank you, Jon. I have to admit that, in our current state, I took the pics in a bit of a hurry, knowing that "some" people might/would be late to the party [no, Muriel, it's not that kind of party. Yet...] And next year? What shall I have then....
DeleteDOUBLE WOW! We in Canada can only dream of having a garden as exotic as JON'S garden due to our shorter growing season and colder temps. So your garden is a complete knock-out!
DeleteAs I keep reminding people, London is on the same latitude as Calgary, so unless you're in somewhere like Yellowknife, there's not a dramatic difference in light levels. Temperature, on the other hand... Jx
DeleteThanks to you, Jon, last night I found myself on Google Earth tracing west along 52 54 53 (the latitude upon which Hexenhausli Device sits) to see which Canadian towns and cities lie along the same line. The answer is practically none! There's just a lot of open space with the odd settlement here and there.
DeleteDark Tickle Island (!) was the first bit of land I 'flew' across after crossing the Atlantic.
The first sign of civilisation was Wabush-Labrador airport (the southern end of the runway, anyway), in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Then I passed just south of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario.
After what seemed like an eternity, I passed over the village of Irma in Alberta. Then it was just uninhabited islands all the way to the east coast of Russia:
Princess Royal Island, British Columbia
Louise Island, BC
Nikolski (which may have as many as 39 people living on it!) on Umnak Island, Alaska
Carlisle Island, Alaska
Attu Island, Alaska
All in all, bleak and desolate. But on the plus side: barely any people!
Barely any people - just the way I like it.
DeleteBear country, IDV, it's all bear country up along there, which is why the Mistress and I are a little further South to enjoy bears and just a few more people. Only because the people offer more restaurants and bears just want to serve you cold fish, berries and literal grub.
DeleteI think you missed a couple of words out in your last sentence, Melanie: "Only because the people offer more restaurants and bears just want to serve you 'accompanied by' cold fish, berries and literal grub.
DeleteWhich would explain The Very Mistress's "Barely any people..."
Hee!
The bears don't deserve their "Bad Reputation"
Delete(Trying this again to link to Joan Jett & The Blackhearts video)
https://youtu.be/nO6YL09T8Fw
You're quite right. I'd prefer them to hoards of people. And at least they have the decency to provide side dishes...
Deletethat is all so beautiful but.....that macrozamia did you call it? that is very creepy still. yep, it needs a prescription to clear it right up.
ReplyDeleteThat's the fruiting part, Well, in time it might produce a big seed head.I've no idea what could eat it today, as the dinosaurs have gone, but best to keep it away from dogs.
DeleteI agree with my social director, that thing's been giving me Nightmares since I've seen it.
DeleteYes, I'm sorry, I take responsibility for that. Dinah provided the full photo with nary a word about sea lice or any other creatures, just the "Macrozamia... (or a triffid...)" caption. My mind saw whale or sea lice (like those hideous, giant things that dropped off the monster in from Cloverfield) and couldn't unsee them. Sorry.
DeleteWell Mr. DeVice...I'm going to need you to be my bedside vigil tonight. Don't ask what that entails...just go with it.
DeleteOf course. We don't want you getting the willies now.
DeleteOh. Hang on...
Glorious!! I am bristling over the new owners of Dinah’s garden destroying it. Ack.
ReplyDeleteI love Wisteria, sulky or otherwise, and it’s good to see Dinah’s triffidery where it ought to be!
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Wisteria is well-known to be a persistant survivor so suckers might pop up...
Delete♫ But they all know Dinah is dynamite ♫
ReplyDeleteI adore Dinah's taste in exotics, my bottom lip trembled with jealously at the hibiscus Ritzy with its blazing hue of jaffa and over a few others too.
I'm over overrun with brugmansias I don't know what to do with them.
Arghh! Mitzi, I'd trade hibiscus for a few brugmansias. What's your fancy?
ReplyDeleteThis is also lovely. Why enjoy some things in my garden, I think we always want what we can't grow, I would love to have some of these but I don't think any of them would do well here, except it was wisteria. We had that years ago and it got way invasive. Loved the Cordyline rubra. I would love to add that here I'll have to look into that. That's a shame the old place was torn down. But why on Earth would they get rid of that truck that drag queen? It's just so unique and different I would think someone would want that on their property.. excellent job Dinahmow!!!! Very inspiring.
ReplyDeleteSorry for some of these words. My phone is injecting what words should be in the sentence apparently.
DeleteOh, auto-correct and predictive spelling is a curse, but I get some giggles at some of it! And just shake my head (and, yes, perhaps a fist) at the decimation of 20+ years to be replaced with bare lawn.
DeleteSo beautiful and what a nice break to [virtually] walk through a garden of plants I would not otherwise see here at home! Mine won't be much up to snuff this year, but there's nothing I can do about it. Those wretched new owners! Bah!
ReplyDeleteAh, that's one of the good things about the GPE - to see plants that one has either never considered, or aren't suitable for their clime, time, and/or garden/greenhouse/windowsill etc.
DeleteFascinating... now I'm beginning to see what you see in gardening. I never considered the blooms as sort of animals, I guess... their shapes. Little monsters. These are marvelous. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteHa! Yes, but I'd rather see less of the sea lice and more cute little dragon heads (from snapdragons)!
DeleteThank you, Dinah, for replying to everyone's comments.
ReplyDeleteTake note everyone - I expect the same from you when your garden is featured!
(Because I'm very laz- I mean, busy. Yes. Busy. That's right... ahem)
Oh My Golly Golly Gosh !
ReplyDeleteHow fabulous to be able to grow those plants at all let alone outside in your garden. I am in awe. Thank you.