Off Topic..Wanted to share a few pic with my friends..
Yes, I never get a thunderstorm and I am in fact in the worst drought of our time here. But I actually chased this one to the beach and stood on the waters edge to see one come and and leave the most beautiful sunset in it's wake..Thought you might enjoy it.
Well, so much for that...I can't see to pull any up..Arg( Check out my face book if you would like)
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Just a few of the plants that I grow other than citrus)
Black Knight
One of my Special Orchids that hangs from the bottom very fragrant.
White Dove orchid
Maruba Jade from Germany
My Favorite Lilly's That smell very sweet and strong
Last but not least my Gardenia)
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Comments (21)Great pics, and I love to watch the little critters that visit the gardens! I spend hours contorting myself into strange positions to get pictures of the pollinators and other visitors. At first, the bees or butterflies seem skittish when I first appear, but after a few minutes, they seem to get used to this big human creature with a camera. They let me get very close sometimes. Here are a couple of the assorted bees that come to pollinate - Yesterday was very exciting, a female Monarch was alternating between nectaring and laying eggs on the Asclepias tuberosa and incarnata. Here she is nectaring - And here she is laying an egg - Can you spot the butterfly in this picture? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oh, here she is!...See MoreA few New Zealand pics to share
Comments (13)Glad you liked the trip through my eyes!! I was not really a tourist in the truest sense since I was there on a William Evans Visiting Fellow award from the Univ, of Otago....had to actually work with my colleague in the lab and visit the south island on weekends, evenings!! I would love to go back and see more, but I had the best of it since I had dinner with my friends every night at their house in Dunedin and got a personalized tour of the points we went to. The country is so beautiful and so diverse.....to be able to drive from the beaches of Christchurch through the southern Alps to the rain forest's of the west coast in a single day is amazing!! The botanical gardens are stunning and HUGE, but of course. like most botanical gardens most of the plants are imports rather than natives. The plants from South Africa do amazingly well there because of the climates being similar and the wall of Clivia around 100 feet long must be stunning when in full bloom!! I'll post a couple of more pics for those that did not look at the album: This is Sandfly Bay so named because the wind blows constantly and keeps the sand in your face!! Here are a couple of NZ Sea Lions having a tussle: A couple of additional Protea that were blooming at the Dunedin Botanical Garden: This is a Maori meeting house......you can not enter the grounds unless invited, which of course I was not :o) And for the bird lovers out there here is an awful shot of an Albatross......this is the only place in the world where they nest on an inhabited island so it was worth the trip on a boat around the front side to see them in flight :o) Dan...See Morea A few Pics Of CG and friends
Comments (12)I had the slowest here and run the most memory intensive apps. It was a special that someone forgot about at Dell. It went up 350+ dollars in a day. For a lot less of a computer. I run Graphics, cad and mechanicals. Rendering a 150 mb file gave me the blues. It was not a option at under $ 900.00 delivered with a bunch of goodies added. We run 02 bubblers on guide boats here. It really helps keep them alive. (bait) I have been playing gardener so I guess it would be a good thing to try???? I am always tinkering with something or researching. Sometimes I wonder if anyone other than an engineer would see the beauty or be able to fix my stuff. I do try to design for simplicity but simple is sometimes complex to others. If there is room in the garage an old freezer upright makes a cheep enclosure for propagating and is easy to heat with a light bulb. I do the low tech spiral bulbs. They seem to provide enough of the spectrum to make plants thrive. Cheap and very versatile. Life is not bliss w/ the quad. (Vista) Sometimes it feels like a started a race car only to find I always had to air up the tires before I could start. GRIN I have leaned it out a bunch. Today I saw where they will now ship w/o all the trial ware and spyware. Mine went away the 1st few hours. It wanted control. On the heater above 70 they propagate real fast but also want to die of mush. I kept mine most the time around 65-70. Fungicide and Hydrogen peroxide help. The really good cutting will amaze you at how quick they root. The other 60% plus are the ones needing the help. I know nothing about holding over big bushes. I would do the dormancy thing if I had to keep them inside. I have heard that plumeria is dug and hung upside down. Hmmmm Keep us informed of the progress. Jim...See Morea few pics to share
Comments (11)That would be a whole lot of pictures.....lol. There are at least 60 hoyas in my house, many duplicates, quite few AV's, then there are all my gesneriads....streptocarpus, episcia, kohleria, aeschynanthus, nematanthus, there are a few christmas cacti, a whole lot of pothos (I love these too). My hubby is a philodendron maniac....lol. He has plans to fruit a monstera deliciosa, takes a couple years but he is determined....lol. My Hubby is into these primitive looking jungle plants, and we are both in agreement that by the time we die, our house will look like a jungle of hoyas and philos. I will take more pics, and show you a few more....See More
devsense
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoall of them are so stunning . love it when flowers are beautiful and fragrant both.
herez my gardenia
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cory (Zone 7a, NJ)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMike, a couple of my survivor orchids now in bloom:
There are a few finally sending up green growth from what looks like dead plants, but most have not recovered yet. These only survived as they were beneath the citrus trees.
Not so pretty but trying to make a comeback:
Cory
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoVladimir, anytime you want to chase storms with me, give me a heads up since we live so close!! Did you ever get them storms Saturday night? They were huge!
Thanks for the very kind words and comments all.....Yes, I am also a plant lover, especially fragrant ones..! I was wondering if any of you are too but it seems we have a few here)
One of the BIGGEST reasons why I even started growing citrus was for the fragrance rather than eating the fruit. In fact, I pluck all my fruit except for a lemon here and there and a a few to share with others...
Vladimir, here are the sunset after the thunderstorms photos than could never speak volumns in comparison to standing there at the ocean edge..It was breath taking. At one point, 5 rainbows in one! With lightning shooting out touching the water.
My Uncles fishing boat docked and not going anywhere before the storm rolled in..Look at the rolling clouds about to hit.
Right after the red sunset, it just got dark again and another storm followed right in..
myermike_1micha
7 years agoNow, for the BEST part, a couple of my citrus trees for you citrus fanatics and other flower friends..lol My Washington Navel and my Ponderosa Lemon flowering today, all fed vinegar and foliage pro and dependent on tap water because of no rain at all( They were too heavy to lift to see on their own but I hope you can grasp what they look like)
A Flowering succulent
And Special Rose) Very Fragrant!
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Laura LaRosa (7b)
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7 years agoThanks buddy . Mikey if I could send you all our storm's I would because I know just how much you love them I really hate them they always turn out to be so vicious. Mikey I love that pink perennial, the flowers color is so vivid and you should see the bee's this plant attracts I just wish I could remember the name of it . Mikey this is our old home so you can imagine how much work we still have to do . Mikey just one more pic same cloud as above but underneath it I never noticed to yesterday but it looks like a funnel trying to form that explains the horrible wind .
Take care my friend
Brian
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