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Tiny Lavender flowers

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This weeks theme is Skinny

I love lavender.

I grow a few different types in my garden. We’ll perhaps I should say I’ve tried to grow a few different types in my garden. The one that does best is Munstead. It seems to be the hardiest and I suppose the most forgiving?

The photo above is a close up of the tiny flowers on a slender lavender stem. You can see the skinny lavender leaves just underneath the lavender flowers. The other thicker green leaves belong to another plant. Once which I can’t remember which one it might be at this time.

Do you grow Lavender in your garden?






Berry Delicious?

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This weeks theme is delicious

berries on vine covered in snow

It snowed earlier in the week and when I looked outside I couldn’t resist stepping out into the garden with my camera in tow.

I got a lot of lovely photos of snow covered plants that I’ll be posting over the next while.

One such picture is this photo of some berries that froze on the vine. They are covered in snow and I hope that at some point the birds discover the berries and find them to be delicious. Of course the holly still has berries on it too that the birds can eat if they choose to.

Is your garden covered in snow as well? Have you stepped outside to take some photos? Frozen plants can be quite beautiful. Give it a try.

That’s one long Stamen

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This weeks theme is LONG

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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 south facing window in one of our upstairs bedrooms and appears to be doing well. I lost a hibiscus last winter so I’m hoping that this one manages to survive it’s stay indoors.

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