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

[MarkD]

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These all look like they have a story to tell. Nice!

 

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[Bretrick]

Red Flowering Gum flowerhead - Corymbia ficifolia

 

[MarkD]

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Pretty sure when I buy my last plant I’ll have no idea that it will be

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Taken near Lexington KY a few years ago. I thought the wrought iron gate was so pretty

 

[hollydolly]

This is my tiny grandfurkid Pixie taken yesterday in the gardens of the park where my Daughter lives

 

[MarkD]

Here is a plant I picked up at the Santa Cruz Arboretum that I’m liking more and more. I’d read that it had upright shrubby growth but now I find it is a selection of perennial ground cover from Western Australia. Love intense color. Even the the flowers are coin sized there are so many!



I’ve got it in a pot on a platform above where my gate leads out to the creek where the trailing stems can and down turned flowers can better be seen.

 

[RadishRose]

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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

This was fun. Lovely place. Thanks, Mark!

 

[MarkD]

This was fun. Lovely place. Thanks, Mark!

I'm going to miss those Wisteria brunches. Loved their garden too but she is also 90 now and it is about an acre. Too much for her surely.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Once a part of RAF Banff in WW2, the Boyndie visitor centre is now a cafe and garden that provides employment for adults with 'learning difficulties'

 

[MarkD]

Got to visit the garden of a couple which I've seen before but they have both gotten obsessed with it and taken it so much further. The first time I saw it was a very formal affair, very symmetrical with common lovely plants but no soul at all. Since then they've added big tree ferns, cloud forest daisies and exotic plants I've never seen before. The top of the garden next to the house is still pretty formal but with some exotic splashes too. A double stair case takes off from an event lawn down the center of the garden, periodically crossed by side paths.

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And then some amazing plants.

 

[RadishRose]

OMG, it's like paradise! @MarkD

 

[RadishRose]

They're just dropping in for a peek,

 

[PeppermintPatty]

 

[PeppermintPatty]

 

[againstthegrain]

McGowan Peak at Stanley Lake, Stanley Idaho - 6/1/24
(9860' , 3005m)

 

[againstthegrain]