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I can't help myself. I just have to post a few more photographs from our Madeira trip. My apologies to those people who are still using a dial-up connection. I don't know what any of the plants are called, except for the first one, which is Papyrus.
mr mcmuffin on 23 Jun 2004 @ 09:59 AM ✲ Permalink
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Seen all these on sandy's pages too.
Have you nothing original to show me??
Posted by: Steve | 23 Jun 2004 13:07:02
Nothing tasteful!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 23 Jun 2004 13:19:14
C is a perennial geranium or a 'cranesbill geranium'
G is Brudmansia one of my mostest favourite flowers.
H if I am not mistaken is an Agapantus most commonly called 'Queen of the Nile'
J is a fig marigold
i think B is some type of sempervirens.
That's all I can identify.
Excellent picies. I want me one of them there cameras you got.
Posted by: jo | 23 Jun 2004 14:11:27
Jo, you are very clever. I could only just recognise the agapanthus and geranium. i thought the flat ones were sempervivens, but I'd never have known what the others were.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 23 Jun 2004 15:58:21
I always thought I was just a bad photographer, but I now realise it really was just that I had a crap camera!
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 23 Jun 2004 16:03:10
I took a closer look at what I thought was plumbago... it seems to be a Nile Lilly.
I can't see the foliage but that flower "ball" seems suspiciously like that lilly.
I found a wonderful site with flower pictures that
capture the culprit:
http://www.sciencemeetsart.com/emese/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=albun40
There are many pictures of individual flowers as well as the flower "ball".
At least 5 years ago there were Nile Lilies used in landscaping The City of Northern California.(that huge metropolis spanning San Francisco to San Jose, then going back over the bay and up again to Oakland) They also liked Algerian Ivy.
I'm presently living in Texas and the big push here is xeriscaping.
The reason is illustrated by what happened when one city put in a retirement community of the recently-transplanted who wanted to keep their old landscaping: The local lake dropped 12 feet.
As it is, I've grown to love local Texas plants.
The Terxas Mountain laurel was beautiful foliage and fragrant flowers:
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Sophora_secundiflora
.html
The wildflowers are nice as well.
Liz
Posted by: Elizabeth Griffith | 23 Jun 2004 17:45:37
Thanks for that, Liz. I am amazed at the depth of knowledge that people have and will check out those links. Mr McMuffin was stunned at the lake story. It's a good argument for sticking with local plants.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 23 Jun 2004 18:56:30
