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Title: If you go into the garden today............
Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 05, 2005, 10:14:38
A few snaps taken this morning................

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/Cammisia.jpg)      (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/upright.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/cam.jpg)  (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/deckingdown.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/Cherry.jpg)   (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/Euphorbia.jpg)

So lovely to see colour again!  ;D
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Post by: Tulipa on May 05, 2005, 10:24:54
Doris, what lovely photos, you garden looks beautiful.  After the winter the colours look so good now don't they.  It is just what we need to cheer us up.
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Post by: dragonfly on May 05, 2005, 11:03:01
Wow Doris, they are superb piccies.  What a lovely garden you have......   :D
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Post by: honeybee on May 05, 2005, 11:38:12
Just beautiful Doris  :)

May i ask?  What is the beautiful blue star shaped plant?
Title: Re: If you go into the garden today............
Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 05, 2005, 13:22:15
It is a Camassia, Honeybee, as you can see by the many photos one of my favorites!

The online dictionary says this "Camassia \Camassia\ n. a genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs."

Learn something new every day! Never knew they were edible :o Prefer to see the flowers though!
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Post by: GREENWIZARD on May 05, 2005, 13:23:15
you have staff DP~noticed your sign ;D ;D
lovely pics :)
Title: Re: If you go into the garden today............
Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 05, 2005, 13:24:55
That's why I had children GreenWiz! ;D  No actually, I think the sign refers to ME! (Kitchen up there ;D)
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Post by: aquilegia on May 05, 2005, 14:18:13
Gorgeous. That blue one in particular. I've never heard of it before.
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Post by: Yellow Petals on May 05, 2005, 17:48:32
Quote from: GREENWIZARD on May 05, 2005, 13:23:15
you have staff DP~noticed your sign ;D ;D
lovely pics :)

LOL I noticed that too!  Hehe.  Didn't nip down the local nursery did you, Doris?  :-X :P
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Post by: dibberxxx on May 05, 2005, 18:41:02
lovely pictures what lovely garden looks stunning  the  camassias are really great  ithink i would like sum of them .thanks for the pictures
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Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 05, 2005, 19:21:12
YP,Wish I did have staff to help me on the plot, but they all decline! :(  The garden is mine, all mine, and I love it that way!
The sign is from a railway station, my Uncle/Godfather was an avid collector and when he died I asked the executor for it!
Have fond memories of it being on his shed, near where we used to have bonfires in the warm summer evenings, and packets of crisps n hot chocolate, watching the bats and wildlife! ;D ( I was a lucky kid! ;D)
Thank you for all your nice comments :D I loves me garden, and it is nice to share with others that like gardens too!
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Post by: Marianne on May 05, 2005, 20:18:10
Doris Pink, I cannot see anything at all but big red crosses ! :'( :(
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Post by: simon404 on May 05, 2005, 22:08:44
Lovely story Doris  :) and the pics :) o May thou art the fairest month - whats the poem?
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Post by: honeybee on May 05, 2005, 22:18:46
Yes, lovely story about your Uncles sign and your happy memories of times shared together.

Thanks for naming the plant for me....Camassia !!
I will definitely have to remember that one :)
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Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 05, 2005, 22:39:30
Sorry Marianne, but looks OK for me??
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Post by: Yellow Petals on May 06, 2005, 01:39:48
Yep, still looks ok to me too.  Lovely 'ol Garden there, DP.  Almost oriental in appearance.  What is the almost alien looking plant, bottom right?  I'm sure it's looking at me!
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Post by: GREENWIZARD on May 06, 2005, 10:33:18
i have camassia cusickii DP it's a paler shade blue.
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Post by: wardy on May 06, 2005, 16:21:09
Marianne  - it maybe your settings are tweaked too high (your security settings that is)  I was having the same problem and the only thing I could find to tweak was the security settings.  There is like a sliding bar which you can move up and down for higher or lower security settings

Good luck
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Post by: lorna on May 06, 2005, 17:33:04
Doris pinks.. I so enjoy the pics which are put on this board. Your garden looks absolutely fabulous,  Oh dear I have turned green again Thank you for sharing. Lorna.
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Post by: Heldi on May 07, 2005, 22:38:55
Gorgeous garden DP.
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Post by: ellkebe on May 08, 2005, 21:36:31
Love the last photo, bottom right.  A stunning plant - do you know what it's called?

Ellkebe
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Post by: Gardengirl on May 08, 2005, 22:11:45
It looks like a Euphorbia ellkebe - am I right DP :-\  Beautiful photos - I too love the blue flower, how unusual it is, must look out for it.
Title: Re: If you go into the garden today............
Post by: Doris_Pinks on May 09, 2005, 08:31:56
Yes it is a Euphorbia! I love it! :D