That’s one long Stamen12.08.07

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My hibiscus shrub has the most beautiful coral colored flowers.

This is a macro of one of the blooms. Note the extremely long pollen covered stamen.
I brought the Hibiscus indoors sometime in October. The plant is currently sitting in a [...]



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Heuchera - Easy to grow and So lovely in the Garden08.09.07

Don’t you just love the look of Heuchera leaves?
Heuchera Purple Palace leaves

They’re so colorful. I have heuchera’s growing in shady places in my garden, even below other plants that are in otherwise sunny areas. For example I’ve got coral heuchera growing underneath our ornate Japanese maple tree. The branches drop down almost to [...]



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Hyacinth Macro05.16.07

Many of the regular readers of this site are gardeners, or gardener wannabe’s. Everyone seemed to love my close up photo of the coral colored Hyacinth in one of my recent posts.
I bet you didn’t know that I took it a step further and got even closer. Hyacinth flowers are each less [...]



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Gypsy Queen Hyacinth05.13.07

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Coral Hyacinth

I think I’m in love with my hyacinths this year. They are all so very lovely and the scent that they’ve produced has just been wafting into my home on nice days when we have windows and screen doors open. One of the joys of spring and growing scented flowers I [...]



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