If you take any flower you please, and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them....-Gertrude Jekyll
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Kordes Perfecta |
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Broadway's blooms are a theatrical blend of golden yellow petals and heavily flushed reddish pink margins. In the spotlight of the sun the color deepen. |
Princess Alexandra of Kent
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With passionate deep pink blooms bursting with seemingly endless petals and delightful fragrance it's hard to see how anyone could resist falling in love with Pretty In Pink Eden Rose. |
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Brown Turkey Fig |
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Venus and the Moon
And I will raise my hand up
Into the night time sky
And count the stars
That are shining in your eye
Just to dig it all and not to wonder
That's just fine
And I'll be satisfied
Not to read in between the lines
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
And I will never, ever, ever, ever
Grow so old again. |
-Van Morrison
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Santa Barbara Peach: Sweet |
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Thompson Seedless |
Abraham Darby Rose
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Thompson Seedless |
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Princess Alexandra of Kent |
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Passion Flower |
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Shirley Poppies and Cornflowers |
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Onion Flower |
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Fritillary Butterfly: Good Pollinator
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Calendrinia spectabilis |
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Boysenberries and Strawberries |
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Iceberg |
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Shrubby Veronica |
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spider lily |
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Broadway Rose |
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Rest in Peace Dear Sweet Moonshine |
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Cymbidium |
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Globe Gilia |
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Sage |
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Olivia Austin |
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carrot |
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baby pumpkin |
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lion's mane |
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yerba mansa |
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Double Hollyhock |
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cosmo |
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foxglove |
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iceberg |
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olivia austin |
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crimson clover |
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feverfew |
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borage |
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polygala |
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mulberries on the tree |
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blackberries |
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penstemmon |
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sea lavendar |
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Angel's trumpet |
black crowned night heron
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Blackbird |
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heart shaped iron ore that washed down the mountain during the mudslide |
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elephant ear |
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jacaranda |
agapantha
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a work of art |
When I am among the trees,
especially
the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,
they give off such
hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of
myself, in which I have
goodness, and discernment,
and
never hurry through the world but walk slowly,
and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their
leaves and call out, “Stay
awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again,
“It’s simple,” they say,
“and you, too, have come into the world to do this,
to go easy,
to be filled with light,
and to
shine.”
-Mary Oliver
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Clarkia |
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Clarkia |
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mustard |
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baby Hass |
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cape plumbago |
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flannel flower |
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Anna Apple |
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San Pedro |
Moon and Venus
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Naked Lady (belladonna) |
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Santa Rosa |
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Amistad (Friendship Sage) |
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
-- David Wagoner
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Swallowtail caterpillers |