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iska Member member is offline Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 90Memories of last summer « Thread Started on Jan 1, 2009, 9:11am »
I love taking photos of flowers. Pitily my new macro does not work as good as the old one. I prefer macros even more. cosmea in my garden. passiflora zinnia another zinnia May I introduce: "Maximus" my antidwarf don't know the Englisch name. In German it is "Kapuzinerkresse" That is enough summer in this cold winter for the moment.
kedigato Global Moderator Staff member is offline Site Coordinator Joined: Oct 2007 Gender: Female Posts: 4,803 Location: GermanyRe: Memories of last summer « Reply #1 on Jan 1, 2009, 9:32am »
Lovely flowers, iska. We haven't had any Cosmea for quite some years, but I have bought a packet ready to sow this year. They are such pretty flowers and a group of them are eye-catching. Kapuzinierkresse (Nasturtium in English) is one of my favourites and I have them every year. My cousins in England had some gorgeous Zinnias in their garden when we visited them this past September. Wait till gartenzwerg sees Maximus (surely not named after The Gladiator? ). She loves them (and rubber ducks) and has a great collection of both. She has just started putting some of her photos up in the Hobbie Section. We have a Passiflora in our Wintergarten and it went mad and is growing up everywhere. Mr K is going to try to get rid of it this year. Pity as it is so beautiful but has turned out to be a plague. (Oh, it was a €1.49 one from Aldi about 3 years ago!)
iska Member member is offline Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 90Re: Memories of last summer « Reply #2 on Jan 1, 2009, 11:05am »
Have you ever had fruits on it? You can cut it down to very small. It will survive and you can enjoy the flowers for another few years.
kedigato Global Moderator Staff member is offline Site Coordinator Joined: Oct 2007 Gender: Female Posts: 4,803 Location: GermanyRe: Memories of last summer « Reply #3 on Jan 1, 2009, 12:09pm »
Yes, we've had fruits on it but they remain hollow. As for cutting it down, that makes it grow even more and new shoots sprout up everywhere. It really is a plague now so it must go.
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iska Member member is offline Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 90Re: Memories of last summer « Reply #5 on Jan 18, 2009, 2:50pm »
Thank you. No, Maximus is not named after the gladiator. It just was intuition for the poor very small man, to give him some bitof importance, after I had found him in the rubbish. But I guess his soul is cured by now.
kedigato Global Moderator Staff member is offline Site Coordinator Joined: Oct 2007 Gender: Female Posts: 4,803 Location: GermanyRe: Memories of last summer « Reply #6 on Jan 25, 2009, 11:33am »
That is just the sort of thing I would do too, Iska!
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