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Post by pete on Jun 15, 2010 18:56:20 GMT
You'll kick yourself if you dont get no 1,Vicky, no clue there.
No2 has world cup connections.
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Post by victoria on Jun 15, 2010 20:42:30 GMT
I'll need time to think on this Pete ... you know I made the guesses up .... As a Portugal fan I watched them play Ivory Coast today .... cr*p game but I think the IC were thugs and a half. Then I watched Brazil v North Korea ... now that was a good match so Portugal will have to play Brazil (whoa) ... and I think I'll watch Spain as well, so 1, 2 and 3 in the rankings.
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Post by kedigato on Jun 16, 2010 2:02:41 GMT
I've just now seen the cactii, Pete, and it is a wonderful show, the colours are brilliant, especially against the brown bench. Is that your dog peeking though the back of the bench? I don't know the names of the two flowers, but the second one seems familiar, just wish I could remember where I saw something like it.
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Post by victoria on Jun 16, 2010 17:29:32 GMT
You know how these things 'come to you' in the middle of the night ...... Well, I'll have to kick myself because I cannot for the life of me think what 1) is ... a strange kind of Fritillary? And 2) is a Protea cynaroides because it's SA's national flower and I think you have one.
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Post by pete on Jun 16, 2010 18:53:54 GMT
The dog (Zoe) is always lurking around somewhere when I get the camera out Kedi Yeah you got no 2 Vicky Does sarracenia ring any bells?
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Post by victoria on Jun 16, 2010 19:35:36 GMT
Ah ha, our very own Dr John ... I thought you said that that flower was in full bloom ... obviously the above beauty is another man-eater ....
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Post by pete on Jun 16, 2010 19:45:21 GMT
Yes the flower is fully out on the sarracenia, the above pic is the trap.
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Post by victoria on Jun 16, 2010 23:19:17 GMT
You've now totally confused me, Pete (not difficult) ... may I see the entire scenario please ... xx
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Post by pete on Jun 20, 2010 19:55:08 GMT
Sorry I did not mean to confuse. Its not a good picture but it shows the flowers that appear first followed by the new traps that form for the summer.
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Post by pete on Jun 20, 2010 20:08:42 GMT
Just a general view of the small front garden And a couple of plants that are flowering at the moment Yellow bottle brush, (callistemon salignus) seed from strongy a few years ago This is a plant that I like but its a bit tender and might just pop its clogs next winter, Isoplexis canariensis
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Post by victoria on Jun 20, 2010 20:55:52 GMT
Oh, Pete, thank you for that .... everything is so neat and perfect as I'd expect it to be and the flowers are to die for ... thanks for sharing ...
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Post by DAG on Jun 20, 2010 21:19:07 GMT
Oh, Pete, thank you for that .... everything is so neat and perfect as I'd expect it to be and the flowers are to die for ... thanks for sharing ... Couldn't agree with Vicky more and pete, please don't call it a small front garden, it is bigger than my back garden! ;D
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Post by kedigato on Jun 20, 2010 22:49:12 GMT
Ooohhhh! I love the pic of the first Venus Fly Trap and that Isoplexis is a gorgeous colour. I guess you have to bring them in for the winter? It that really a huge Japanese Aralia that I see in your front garden?? I guess living in Kent the weather might be mild enough to leave it outside during the winter with some protection? We just have the regular Garden Aralia in ours, looks so bizarr with the prickly naked stems in the winter.
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Post by pete on Jun 21, 2010 18:43:27 GMT
Thankyou all, I'll be putting more up later. ;D Just being picky Kedi, yes Jap Arailia, (fatsia japonica), its really very hardy, not sure how it would perform in a German winter, but I'm sure it would stand a chance. Aralia elata, I have that also, as you say very prickly stems, but worth growing I think. Thanks for the "neat and perfect", Victoria, but its far from that if you look close, I just try not to show that in the pictures
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Post by victoria on Jun 21, 2010 21:15:52 GMT
Fatsia japonica makes me think of something ... Jim went up the lane the other week to put the cat litter in the bin and came back and said there was this Umbrella plant (Schefflera) there so I said well where is it? So off he trundles again and comes back moaning due to the weght of it (he could have taken the wheelbarrrow as it is 200 meters). Anyway, someone had cut it to about 15-20cms and I decided there was nowhere to put such a monster so it's been sitting in a big bucket and has shot all sorts of new stems and leaves up. I shall give it to the friend who has given me the succulents I have recently had IDd as she has a few empty pots (and ONLY has pots). Pete, you're not doing a 'me' with photography, are you?
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