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Post by barbieq25 on Oct 30, 2011 22:17:06 GMT
How great is that! Never saw that before either. Love the berries - they look so pretty. Are they edible?
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Post by blackpenny on Oct 31, 2011 15:29:03 GMT
I've never seen more than one at a time - it was so cool! The berries are on our White Mountain Ash tree, and birds eat them. It's funny when the berries are older and fermented and the birds get drunk on them. Here's the tree in spring with white flowers, summer with berries, and autumn with the leaves turning colour. I'm planning to do winter too, which I could maybe do today because it's snowing. Not much, and it won't stay for long, so I think I'll wait until it's really winter.
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Post by venicet on Oct 31, 2011 15:57:58 GMT
blackpenny, have you heard that the more berries on a mountain ash, the harder the winter is going to be? We have one across the street from us, and funny enough, it usually is heavier with berries just before tough winters. Barbie, the berries are horrible tasting and only birds eat them.
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Post by blackpenny on Oct 31, 2011 16:56:35 GMT
I've heard that venicet, but I choose to believe there are more berries this year because we reseeded the lawn last year, and used fresh soil with more nutrients in it. I've never seen so many berries on this tree, and there have been some pretty tough winters before, so if this one is going to be even harder - I don't want to think about it.
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Post by venicet on Nov 1, 2011 17:14:58 GMT
Keeping my fingers crossed for you then that winter isn't rough because I've heard the past couple have been brutal for you there. Here we are so used to the extreme weather that it's not a big deal. One year we got over a meter in two day. For the Americans, it's a bit more than a yard. LOL The snow was so high you couldn't see the sidewalk or road from the front window. Actually, the snow was as high as the windows LOL It was a game of chicken or go to just get out of the driveway and on to the road because you couldn't see around the snowbanks to see if anyone was coming. Only firetrucks and army vehicles moved for 3 days. Cars were totally covered in snow and buried in less than 2 days. I have a video of the snow coming down. The flakes were huge. I love snow so it was exciting for me. LOL
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Post by blackpenny on Nov 2, 2011 18:18:42 GMT
The winters haven't been as bad as they could be, I think here we're just spoiled because we get warm weather with the Chinooks. I remember Ontario winters, and that's what last year was like. It snowed in November and didn't go away, and if there were any Chinooks it didn't get warm enough to melt. Oh well, everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it. *lol*
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Post by Helen on Nov 2, 2011 20:00:17 GMT
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 2, 2011 21:28:11 GMT
Would you look at that! Real live raspberries! Sorry Helen, it's just that we don't see that here. By far too hot.
What a great big mess! Yes, I can understand now why the trees lose their leaves in the winter. Nature sure has a way of pruning. We've had high winds here for ages. Sometimes so bad that I cannot water even up close to the plants.
I've started watering in the morning as it is more wind still but it is a rush to get to work. At least the weather is warmer. Why do I have to be the odd one out??
Thanks for sharing the pic, Helen. It is good to see how the other half of the world experiences life. I miss the snow too but I am glad we missed this one. Happy to know that you are all ok.
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Post by lancemcknight on Nov 3, 2011 22:22:43 GMT
It's storm like that makes me glad I live in the south. All we received was blast of cold windy air and rain. I couldn't believe my eyes when I watched some American football games on TV. It was unbelievable.
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Post by blackpenny on Nov 4, 2011 0:21:31 GMT
That wouldn't even be unheard of here, we can get snow at any time of year. They often play the Grey Cup (football) game at the end of November in snow.
Glad you're okay, Helen. Heavy snow is not a lot of fun when it causes damage. Every snowfall here there are a lot of car accidents. I swear people forget how to drive in snow between one snowfall and the next. Even if it's only a few days.
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 4, 2011 8:13:53 GMT
BP, for some reason I missed the other 3 images of your trees. It looks so lovely. How green it all is.
I had to laugh though at the driving comment. We say the same here but about the rain & it may not rain for months at a time. It was about 6 weeks ago I am sure since it rained.
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Post by blackpenny on Nov 4, 2011 16:45:41 GMT
We've had a few cm of snow since last night. I just heard in the news at 10:30 there are 64 non-injury accidents and 4 injury accidents. To be fair it has been a while since it last snowed, but it'll be about the same next time.
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Post by Helen on Nov 5, 2011 1:34:50 GMT
@bp: You reminded me of a funny incident. We had a few inches of snow, maybe two or three, and there were these cars from warmer states and they were driving so slowly as if that was the biggest snowfall. lol What if they had to drive in 30cm of snow?
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Post by Sargon III on Nov 20, 2011 23:39:53 GMT
@ blackpenny, those are so cool, and the tree photos are great, wish if they were taken from same position. @ Helen, great shots, I like how the snow is with fruits, I don't like to live in snow, just love to see it in pictures. Please guys/girls, keep you camera with you, I really like to see more posts, and discuss how we could edit them so they look more professional. Took at my home town, in a restaurant, red Lantanas, so common: And this taken in desert town, pink Euphorbia Milii, they are so tiny flowers, smaller the a nail.
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 21, 2011 7:24:55 GMT
Lantana is a dirty word here. It is so poisonous to cattle & gives the graziers/farmers a lot of grief but I like the look of it. Like a tiny delicate bouquet. It comes in quite a few colour ranges too. The Euphorbia is ever so pretty. I have a red one. They are quite an odd looking plant with the flowers only showing two petals as it were & all those spikes up the stem. Not sure how big the plants grow but I saw something similar to it that was nearly as tall as me 1.53m & it would have been easily 40 in diameter. Only $50 too.
It is so great to know that we have similar plants around the world.
Today I bought 3 bouganvilleas for $3.49 each. Usually they are about $8.00 for a cheap one at the markets.
I bought an old barbeque, stripped it & painted it. Hubby will put some mesh on it for me so that I can put it out the front to sell my plants. Hubby has a new camera so we might get some good images (if he takes them ;D )
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Post by blackpenny on Nov 23, 2011 18:14:25 GMT
Very nice flowers Sargon.
I agree about the tree pics being taken from the same position. I thought of it afterward, and tried to do that with the more recent ones. They didn't all turn out though, so I picked the ones that looked best. I can always start again, and actually think about it ahead of time.
The ones with the green leaves and berries were a problem, the lighting was weird. And I'm not an experienced photographer, I rely on the camera to think for me. Hopefully I'll get better with practice.
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Post by delpart on Nov 24, 2011 20:45:35 GMT
Well I'm sure I have some more pics around, but I thought I'd "shop" a recent capture of a night lilly I salvaged to share. Neighbor had to prune her back and I recovered this one. Its fairly large. About a meter tall roughly even with the rough handling it encountered. This is only time while it was blooming I had decent lighting at all on it. Wish I'd gotten one with all those blooms open, but the light was never right. That's one sour thing with photography, you might pass up a nice memory shot if you get stuck on getting the right lighting. It will be a year before that thing blooms again. Assuming it survives the winter etc. Original pic resized for photobucket: Framed picture: Slightly corrected HDR like composite: Monster original as it really does have some nice detail even off the point in shoot camera. Warning its about 2.6 megs at 3600x2700 resolution:
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Post by barbieq25 on Nov 24, 2011 21:30:35 GMT
Nightlilly? I think that may be what we call a day lilly. Sure is pretty. I am no photographer at all - pretty evident with the images you see ;D
I am glad too that you saved this one.
Really amazing what some plants will put up with. My agapanthus flowered despite being ripped out by its roots, thrown in a cut off coke bottle, & sitting around minus water sometimes for a whole week before I got it & planted it.
I found a little strawberry begonia that has sprung up by itself. Well I suppose that a baby one must have dropped onto the mulch. It can live there. I have now got the garden to a point where I just water & keep the weeds at bay & I find all these baby plants coming up on their own as it were.
Found a blue salvia in among the pansies. I've always admired them but never grew them. Going to the nursery to get some more vege seedlings today.
I find I have much more interest in cooking since there have been fresh veges to pick. Odd eh? My new favourite herb is cinnamon basil.
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Post by delpart on Nov 25, 2011 18:02:50 GMT
Yeah I've tried to determine the night vs day lilly question. In theory it has to do with when they open up/bloom. Whether its a nocturnal thing or what not. But then if you read further that naming has more botanical meanings which I more or less gloss over. Main reason I refer to it as a night lilly though is my 81 year old, ex-college professor neighbor, is rather stubborn about it being a night lilly. Even here I tired of wanting to belabor that point it seems. In my head I simply call it "the" lilly. And if I say lilly more time I'm going to get a lisp ...
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Post by mindshift on Mar 18, 2012 16:38:30 GMT
Your lilies, delpart, appear to be Crinums. They are in the Amarylidacaea family which includes Agapanthes to Zephyranthes. eol.org/pages/2534662/entries/34647840/overview The term night-blooming refers to flowers that open in the afternoon or evening and close up in the morning. Crinums are tropical to sub-tropical, and prefer a constantly moist soil. Some species such as C. americanum are commonly named swamp lilies. Gardening and wildflowers are my hobby, and whenever I see anyone guessing at the name of a plant I just can't help but throw in my two cents.
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Post by delpart on Mar 18, 2012 21:32:13 GMT
Thanks for the name. Can see it has some pheno shifts etc that are most curious.
Almost time around here to try and get some shots of other things. Just been moping when I should be trying to take my camera with me. Rain plus above normal temps equals millions of neat little wildflowers ... And other people's gardens. ;D
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Post by barbieq25 on Mar 18, 2012 22:15:12 GMT
My garden is drowning yet again. Far too much rain on ground that is already soaked. I too should me happy snapping. I get told the names of plants & then forget them. Arrgh!
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