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- Rothschild Orchid
- I'm a thirtysomething with a passion for gardening, wildlife, art, photography and beautiful cats. I've recently moved back home to help reclaim my parents rambling and overgrown smallholding.
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Meconopsis & Other Favourite Things - What a spring we're having here in Nova Scotia! Although today is chilly enough that I put a fire in the wood stove to take the damp and chill off insid...
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May's Garden Speaks Volumes - At this time of year we are normally working a little less and enjoying the garden more, but this year's *March snow storm* set us back considerably. Comp...
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Excuse me! - here's a real reason to party ;) - Lordy! 2012 is a huge year for the UK and at the moment it's all about the Queen's Jubilee; 60 years on the Throne deserves recognition and I am loving the...
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The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant: Here we go! - By the time we got to the muster at Hammersmith, we'd been on the water for nearly five hours, counting lock time and the usual hanging around. So it was...
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End Of Month View ~ May 2012 - May was a month of mercurial weather, much squidging of lily beetles and my favourite gardening show. It was also the month when I came to the conclusion...
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Welcome to Hound’s-tongue - May shading into June is the best time for long country walks in the East of the country. The wildflowers are dazzling and bewildering in their massed n...12 hours ago
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When it’s all just a little off - [image: 5-Gardening-0802] I think that the last week or so I was just a little off, and I am hoping that the coming week improves greatly. It looks...
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West Littleton Open Gardens - There are lots of lovely gardens to visit from 2-5pm in this picturesque Cotswold village on the 9th & 10th of June. Plus the all-important tea and homemad...17 hours ago
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Lost Touch With Reality - I had lost touch with Reality, but then I found it again. Above: H. ‘Barbara Mitchell’ It began with the large, nearly one hundred different named cultivar...19 hours ago
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And they Huffed and they Puffed - This past Friday we had an enameled cast iron tub delivered for the new upstairs bathroom. Luckily we have great neighbors that were willing to swing over ...20 hours ago
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THE LAST PLANT IN ENGLAND - If you keep walking and walking in England, you will eventually come to the sea. [image: Rocks and sea, right at the end of Portland Bill in Dorset...
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Alien Cacti at Grigsby - I saw many strange plants on recent visit to Grigsby Cactus Gardens in Vista, CA. This one seems to be greeting a fellow citizen of another planet. Perha...21 hours ago
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Keep your kids ‘buzzy’ this half-term – build a bee hotel! - Turn your garden into a bee-friendly haven with a simple wooden structure that gives solitary bees a place to nest.23 hours ago
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Slowing the Pace - [image: DSC_0004] This past month is always hectic in the life of a horticulturalist, especially one who works at a busy garden centre and then does gard...
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Paradise found at Brook Farm in Berrington - a garden with a heart! - The ancient hop kiln makes a perfect backdrop for the cottage garden at Brook Farm It doesn't get much better than this - *Brook Farm in Berrington*, Worce...
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Umbellifers 1: Smyrnium - The glorious golden-green of *Smyrnium perfoliatum* - beautiful but dangerous. Early summer is a peak time for many members of what I call Umbelliferae bu...
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Herbaceous Peonies Throughout the Gardens - Herbaceous peonies are lusciously and clumsily spilling over in various parts of the gardens. First . . . a long row of peonies . . . the remnants of a...
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Perth City Jubilee Celebrations - Weekends are usually spent working in the garden but not today. To celebrate Perth's status as a city again and the Queens Diamond Jubilee we headed down ...
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End of month view for May - In May the weather took off and with it my garden: weeds, flowers, grass, everything suddenly galloping for the sky. Suddenly everything is lush and full...
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Outbursts of Vanilla - I have, like many people, recently returned from the Chelsea Flower Show (i). I was, briefly, on television although have not yet seen much of it: except a...2 days ago
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Thank Goodness For The Daylilies - *They love the hot weather and blazing sun and Middle Tennessee has had plenty of both. * *Was it just a few years ago when I wrote that it was time for ...
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Green Woodpecker - I have been trying for this species and a photo ever since I had access to the wood. Yesterday I had set up a new hide, lower and nearer to the waters edge. ...3 days ago
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Waving Goodbye - Blogger have just informed me that the old blogger interface is going shortly. My health is not good most days and I can't struggle with the new interface ...
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Chelsea Flower Show Plant of The Year - It took a long time to get it off the ground, but in the three years that the Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year Award has been running it’s quickly estab...3 days ago
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A Passion for Peonies - When I was at Lilactree Farm a few weeks ago, I promised to show you some of Brian Bixleys species peonies when I returned for the ORGS picnic. It was a be...3 days ago
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End of Month View - May 2012 - My intentions are always good when it comes to joining other garden bloggers with longer garden shots and notes at the end of the month. I like this idea w...
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We Need A Bigger Garden - Patio from above This garden is getting a bit overcrowded - R finds it difficult to walk across the patio without tripping over something (and I'm not sur...
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The trail - I recently threw (with relish) our last vestiges of plastic toys into a skip, and quickly covered them with old carpet before the kids could notice and ret...1 week ago
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Old, Racist and Thick! - *The FGC plots: my empire ends here ... for now! * On Saturday we finally connected up the water at the plots. Despite having a growing army of plotholder...
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‘Cleve West and The Garden of Doom’? The Brewin Dolphin Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 - Is all finally well in the uk banking world? Or is there a further crisis looming? Some awe-full financial armageddon on a truly grecian scale which will c...1 week ago
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Dianthus Green Trick: New from Thompson & Morgan - [image: Dianthus Green Trick (‘Temarisou’), a new green flowered Sweet William for cut flower or patio pots. Image © Hilverda Kooij]Green flowers are alw...1 week ago
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One down, 99 to go! - [image: DSCN3115] It is sad I know but over many years visiting flower shows at Hampton Court & more particularly Chelsea I have looked on with more tha...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show: Part 3 - As to be expected, the Chelsea gardens were awash with great features and ideas to take home. This post will highlight a few of my personal favourites. ...
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CATS AND CREATURES - There's a new post on my other blog - Esther's Garden Notes. If you'd like to see my cats, snails, a velvet mite and apple flowers without petals, that's t...1 week ago
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Chelsea 2012 - Gardens, celebs and bacon rolls - So that will be the back of Ringo's head and Ryan (@ryansgarden) pretending to pose The first time I ever went to Chelsea Flower Show was in 1985 when I was ...1 week ago
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Our Home Gardens! - Curiosity about other people is part of the human psyche. We want to work other people out. Find out what makes them tick. So other people’s personal space...1 week ago
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Worth Garden: Paradise in Mill Valley - Artist/Photographer Don Worth created a paradise garden in Mill Valley, California. Soon you'll have a rare opportunity to experience the garden's tropical...2 weeks ago
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How to get a ‘flat’ wall appearance with a Woolly Pocket - How to get a ‘flat’ wall appearance with a Woolly Pocket Photo: John Connel This is the neatest installation of Woolly Pockets I have seen. Built fo...2 weeks ago
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FAIR DAFFODILS WE WEEP. . . - *Narcissus poeticus *var. *recurvus *the true pheasant's eye in my mini-meadow. Good morrow all, and a very happy Chelsea to you. A month since my las...
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Women and Their Gardens - US Edition - Gardening Women becomes Women and Their Gardens in the US and receives a '4 gherkin' (Good, innit?) review3 weeks ago
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A New Home - After quite some time living at this address, the blog has a new home, it's HERE. Go see it, click the RSS feed, leave rude comments, the usual stuff....
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In Which David Considers Goliath - This week, I have been in South Africa visiting family and friends and old haunts. At this time of year it is beautiful here, with near endless blue skies ...1 month ago
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House at Pooh Corner - The little play house was built over 20 years ago for our daughter Suzie. Now it has had a Winnie the Pooh makeover so that children who visit the garde...
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Video: Constructing a new 7 x 10m Polytunnel at the Exotic Garden… - At last – after a break of many months I’m back! I needed a break form blogging over the winter but not from the garden which has had many changes since I ...3 months ago
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The Hunting of the Salad - Getting my salad together for February was quite an ordeal after that prolonged spell of heavy frost. Gone were most of the plants that so amply provided me ...
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The King and Queen - No:2 in a series of tree blogs In Celtic mythology Beech is the Queen of the forest and her king is of course the mighty Oak. Now these are two trees that m...3 months ago
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The Botanic Garden was full of Masked Tyrants - Dear Reader, January seems to be the time when a lot of lazy bloggers re-visit their dusty old pages. I suppose it's similar to the gyms being packed full ...4 months ago
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A recipe for disaster - I love a good typo more than most, so was over the moon when steered towards the latest (December 3) issue of Amateur Gardening. There’s an almighty howler...6 months ago
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A golden harvest - How did we get to October already? The golden light of disappearing rays of sunshine is has brought an unmistakable warm glow to sedums, grasses, Japanese an...
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Blog is on the move - For those of you who perhaps haven't seen my last post: I’ve decided to move the blog to wordpress… Why? Well I’m tired of having problems logging into bl...8 months ago
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The Most Beautiful Garden You’ve Never Heard Of: Part Three - I have now been sleeping beside this sandpaper-leafed tree for nearly two decades during my visits to the Deschutes. We have grown older together and most ...10 months ago
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Valete Omnes! - My dear Friends, Followers and Favourites, The time has, alas, come to say goodbye. Just over a year ago I knew nothing of weblogging. Indeed, I barely new ...
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Growing again: Rat-tailed revelations - WARNING: The following post contains NO scenes of parasitic murder, feline or insect defecation defecation and no eight-legged beasties or mucus of any kin...1 year ago
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Vale. - Sadly this Blog is now closed. It will remain partially available with a skeleton staff in order to keep nearly five years of archive safe and warm. The new...1 year ago
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Behind every great garden.. - ... is a great gardener. If you are interested in Historic Garden Conservation, Chiswick House is a good place to see what can be done. A huge injection o...
1 year ago
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27 comments:
Stunning photo - reminds me of New Year Eve!
Thanks for your sweet comment - I love your blog - wonderful photos. See you later!
Very cool... that would look fabulous in a black frame.
WOnderFul PicTuRe... YOu must have a macro lens. Can't wait to see more.
Kate - The Garden Bell
I've never seen this flower before - its beautiful
Randi is right - they do look like fireworks! Gorgeous photos! How is progress at Tumbledown?
wow thats really beautiful :)
u may view mine here
aloha RO,
what a nice capture, how did you get the detailed shot, with some software for the stamens?
RO:
What a divinely detailed capture! It almost makes the stamens the focus of attention - and when you stop to consider, they are so oft overlooked in photography.
wooah...exquisite!! eye-candy!
You rock girl..!
Kiki~
Teza, I love the stamens on this plant, they are like glorious exploding fireworks, beautifully illuminated against a backdrop of white petals. I'm having a week for macro shots of stamens. They are hard to capture, and unless I was busy poking my lens at them I would miss all their subtleties too. The image below of Kleinia abyssinica is not one of my best but I included it in my valentines post because if you look closely at it many of the stamens look like tiny hearts.
Hi Noel, I used a 105mm macro lens to get the close up shot of the stamens.
Hi Dan, progress at Tumbledown has been slow this month; I've been battling with a succession of illnesses. I have been suffering quite badly with migraines of late and have been referred to see a neurologist next week. Fingers crossed it will be sorted soon. I've been busily hacking down elders and overgrown shrubs for some time. I am making a small dent in the undergrowth but it is going to take some time before I can reach anything that I would call order!
Thanks for all your lovely comments,
RO xx
Ooh, pretty - I like that one - not come across it before.
Sorry for the lack of comments lately - I have been reading your blog posts (and Aspi's guest posts :-D) but not had sufficient brain to be able to think of anything to say.
I haven't forgotten I said I'd suggest some gardens to visit - my favourites will hopefully be appearing on my blog in the near future :-*
very cool pictures. jim
I love it when I find new plants that I have not encountered before. And these certainly are amazing.
Jen
Beautiful capture.. this ought to be made into a card with the fireworks type feature would great sent for all celebrations!
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what a fantastic flower...and photograph of it. I need a nice new macro lens...and maybe a new camera to go with it.
Great photos of natural fireworks on display. I salute your macro shots. Those petals are just secondary for aesthetics, and only to protect these delicate parts. I hope for your soonest release of migraine pains. God bless and take care.
Fabulous shot
K
Wow...and a new plant to 'google about' gail
Such a beautiful photo and I love how the bright yellow contrast so nicely with the white petals. I hope you will be sharing more macro shots with us soon :^)
Wow, stunning photos. I've added myself to your followers, afraid I might miss something wonderful :)
What an amazing photo!! :D
Gorgeous!!!!
That, Madam Orchid, is one helluva picture.
Great picture, and just so Frizzy!
oh yes - that is gorgeous = smile on my face x
Gorgeous! Wonderful detail of the stamens!
RO,
This is indeed a stunning portrait. This is quite the bloom, and after a bit of research, I am thrilled to discover that this can be grown as a houseplant, likes partial shade, and the yellow stamens spread open when touched. Thank you so much for introducing me to this amazing plant. :)
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