'Yuletide'
Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’
‘Yuletide’ Camellia sasanqua should bloom for Christmas, as the name implies. It typically does. However, it sometimes blooms early or late. It might be slightly late this year, but has been blooming for quite a while, and was beginning to bloom by Christmas.
It certainly is a delightful red. It seems to me that it can be slightly more reddish, with less of a pink…
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June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Swayambhunath
© KOJI ARAKI Art Works
Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe :)
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Last Fridays Stroll Home
I found a load of shrubbery and stuff so I thought I'd take pics
1. Pale lilac buddleia
2. Deeper purple buddleia
3. Some very large rosehips - I think it's from a dog rose bush
4. Creeping ivy - that's a bugger to get rid of, had some in the garden of my old council house
5. And the remnants of a dog rose (I think) with its large rosehips
Apparently the roses are known as Rugosa and not dog roses. So I stand corrected there
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Flowering Quince
Flowering quince blooms prior to foliation.
Flowering crabapples are the same genus as fruiting crabapples. Flowering cherries are the same genus as fruiting cherries. Flowering quince, Chaenomeles spp., though, is not the same genus as fruiting quince. Available cultivars are generally floriferous but sterile hybrids. Only four basic species produce small fruit that are good for little more…
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Oleander prepping to be Oleander flowers.
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June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Swayambhunath
© KOJI ARAKI Art Works
Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe :)
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Lets play the Favorite Thing game!
Pick a topic, and talk about your favorite thing about it.
For me, Im choosing gardening. My favorite thing about gardening is all the insects and pollinators Im helping, and the creatures my bushes house :)
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