Your very favorite photos from out in nature or gardens, your own or borrowed

MarkD said:
Those pink flowers look like some kind of ice plant. It is a color so violent it seems like it might sprain your iris. I'm growing something like this but I lack the army of gardeners to keep it looking good. ;(
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It's simply a Spanish wildflower....

Carpobrotus Edulis, Spanish wildflower
 
hollydolly said:
It's simply a Spanish wildflower....

Carpobrotus Edulis, Spanish wildflower
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I see it referred to as an ice plant online but it looks much like one I have out front. Mine blooms once and then gets smothered by other plants. Very colorful though. I don't know which one I'm growing.

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Nope. I checked the plant list of the nursery I got it from and that name doesn't come up. Really thought it might be that one.
 
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DaiwaGuy said:
VERY NICE!!! Mine is landrace Afghani. Pure indica. Sativa makes me paranoid. Indica puts me to sleep. I grow six plants per year, in 45 gallon fabric pots. I make supersoil to grow it in.

What strain is yours?
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Nice looking grow. I do well with indicas and some sativas. The sativas are why I built the greenhouse. Instead of 6 to 8 weeks flowering sativas usually require 10 to 13 weeks. Hybrids are in between. That was chocoalope!
12 weeks flowering time. Pure indicas I usually use for pain.
 
JBR said:
With all the flowering plants you have in your garden, Mark, you must have bees coming in. are there beekeepers in you neighborhood?
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We could keep a hive here for my stepson but my wife doesn’t want them. No one else has bees nearby that I know of but there are many around including many kinds of wild bees. Because I grow so many exotics I can’t take that for granted but I do also have many native California plants.

Here is a plant the bees are loving right now taken at the end of February, Acacia cognata in bloom. The flowers are nicely scented and strong enough for even a nose challenged person like me to notice. They smell like a toasted sweet bread.

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JBR said:
With fruit trees & bushes, my wife's various flowers in some of her raised beds plus pots & urns, and native & feral plants in our field area, we see our neighbors' honey bees here. We also see a lot of wild bees. I've read a lot about the dwindling bee population in many geographies, so we just hope the situation here can continue.
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Same here. The butterflies too are losing population but we still see quite a few so far. We're not hot enough to grow the better larval plants for Monarchs but we have lots of feeder plants for the adults and some milkweeds which will grow here in our summer cool conditions.
 
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Our friend Corwin (in the red) died at 90 recently and I've been going through my photos to put together a remembrance book for his widow Marjory to remember their beautiful old home and garden once she moves to something smaller and more convenient. All the photos come from an event they hosted in their garden almost every year around Easter which they called Wisteria Brunch. They have about an acre at the top of hill in Kentfield which is north of San Francisco. I love their garden and I began photographing it at these events Corwin told me I made it look like a place he wanted to visit too. He got inspired and finished more work on the Gaudi patio at the end of the driveway.

He was a patent lawyer with a passion for making his own wine which he shared generously, always bringing a couple bottles when we hosted a tea in our garden for the group Marjory and my wife Lia were part of. If you'd like to see the photos you can follow the link to my Flickr page where you'll see my new album Wisteria Remembrance For Corwin. You can browse through the photos one at a time or use the slide show function if you wish by clicking the first of the three icons above the set on the right, the one that looks like a computer monitor with an arrow on the screen. The photos will begin playing; to stop it press X in the upper right corner. There is no soundtrack.

Wisteria Remembrance for Corwin
 
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I don't remember if I posted this already. These red and white flowers were planted and tended to by my neighbor-friends in my building who are part of the gardening committee. This photo is from last year. I don't know if they will be planting anything in that spot this year. The purple flowers in the planter and other bushes in that area were planted by our neighbor in another building. These were visible from our bedroom and studio windows.

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These were planted by our neighbor upstairs. She plants these every year but they don't last long. Note...this photo was taken in the middle of the night when I came up from the laundry room.

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