Nature and garden

Larnach Castle Garden in Dunedin, New Zealand

Flowers

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The Jardin Exotique de Monaco is a botanical garden situated in Monaco. It was opened in 1933, and has a wide variety of succulent plants, especially cactuses. Within the garden, there is a large underground cave in which there are many stalagmites and stalactites. Evidence of prehistoric human inhabitants has been found in the cave. There is a museum of Prehistoric Anthropology in the garden displaying many of those finds.

Aeonium arboreum – the genus Aeonium is distributed throughout the Canary Islands, Madeira, Morocco and eastern Africa. Each of the succulent stems will flower and fruit only once and then die back; in a single word, the plant is monocarpic.

De Jardin Exotique de Monaco is een botanische tuin in Monaco. Hij is geopend in 1933 en heeft een grote collectie succulenten waaronder veel cactussen. In de tuin is er een grote onderaardse grot met veel stalagmieten en stalactieten. Er is bewijs gevonden dat er in de prehistorie mensen leefden in de grot. Er is een museum van prehistorische antropologie die veel van de vondsten tentoonstelt.

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Secret Garden
By Bruce Springsteen

She’ll let you in her house
If you come knockin’ late at night
She’ll let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She’ll let you deep inside
But there’s a secret garden she hides She’ll let you in her car
To go drivin’ round
She’ll let you into the parts of herself
That’ll bring you down
She’ll let you in her heart If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don’t think twice
You’ve gone a million miles
How far’d you get
To that place where you can’t remember
And you can’t forget
She’ll lead you down a path
There’ll be tenderness in the air
She’ll let you come just far enough
So you know she’s really there
She’ll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She’s got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need Will always stay
A million miles away

and also….
Inspiring song from a Secret Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE

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English garden for all seasons. Winner Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2007. Winner Walsall in Bloom 2006. http://www.fourseasonsgarden.co.uk

from Four Seasons Garden

English garden for all seasons. Winner Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2007. Winner Walsall in Bloom 2006. http://www.fourseasonsgarden.co.uk

from Four Seasons Garden

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Calla, Calla Lily
by C. Colston Burrell

The great, white, waxy flowers of calla, also called calla lily,
so often seen at florists are nearly weeds in their native South Africa.
They’re actually perennials in Zones 8, 9, and 10, but since they are not tolerant of frost,
they are grown as annuals in other parts of the United States. Gardeners throughout the country
can enjoy their lush, green leaves and bright flowers in summer by planting the tuber each spring.

Calla, also called Calla Lily, bloom as white to green annual flowers, yellow to orange annual flowers, and pink to fuchsia annual flowers.

Description of calla lily: Glistening, white flowers grow to 2 feet above the arrowhead-shaped leaves that arise from the rhizome planted below ground. By summer’s end, a large clump of leaves displays a more or less continuous succession of flowers.

Growing calla lily: For maximum enjoyment, start rhizomes indoors 8 weeks prior to warm weather. Plant the large tubers in a soil mix high in peat or other organic matter and grow at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep uniformly moist and fertilize weekly with a water-soluble fertilizer. Plant outside in a rich soil high in organic matter that retains moisture. Incorporate a slow-release fertilizer before planting. Grow in full sun for maximum growth. In the fall, lift before frost, drying off foliage and rhizomes. Store in a frost-free place until spring.

Propagating calla lily: Buy rhizomes at garden centers in the spring. Check to make sure they are firm and moist.

Uses for calla lily: Plant callas anywhere you want to achieve a tropical look. They also make dramatic container plants and superb cut flowers.

Calla lily related species: Z. rehmannii is the pink calla, although it shows much variation in spathe color from wine-red to nearly white. It is smaller, growing to 18 inches. Z. elliotiana is a species with white, spotted foliage, and a golden-yellow spathe. The California series of dwarf callas comes in a full range of colors.

Calla lily related varieties: Green Goddess is green with a white throat. White Giant reaches 6 feet and has white flowers and speckled foliage.

Scientific name of calla lily: Zantesdeschia aethiopica

English garden for all seasons. Winner Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2007. Winner Walsall in Bloom 2006. http://www.fourseasonsgarden.co.uk

English garden for all seasons. Winner Daily Mail National Garden Competition 2007. Winner Walsall in Bloom 2006. http://www.fourseasonsgarden.co.uk
B l a c k M a g i c

Flower flower,
Seasonal art;
Gracious thing
Glory all worth,
New in each spring.

Beauty you are,
Breaking a heart;
Of you I sing,
With my full breath
And spiritual wing.

Flower flower
Fragile and new,
With summer so sweet;
Beauty beyond,
Tenderly treat.

Forever newborn,
When summer shall start;
Crossing my feet
When laid across ground,
In a garden or a street.

Peter S. Quinn

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