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Playing with Passion
Okay, relax because this is not an x-rated post! I have been playing with a photo of our first passion-flower on the vine we bought three weeks ago. We have a bare concrete path running to our small...
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Black-Eyed Susan & Other Garden Goodies
I’ve seen a couple of posts on US blogs this week about Black-Eyed Susan flowers and they are quite different to what we call Black-Eyed Susans in Australia and here in North Cyprus. It is a hardy...
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Bougainvillea Bling!
I’m really into the bling today – I played with an earlier photo I took of an amethyst-coloured bougainvillea flower in our garden, and added some bling – just to celebrate Bling Weekend Chez Mo!
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Spring is Sprunging
Wild Fennel I went for a walk today and was amazed at how many plants and trees are in leaf or flower. We’ve had a pretty mild winter (so far, it’s going down to 15C with rain on Monday) and Spring is...
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Brilliant Bougainvilleas
To our relief, our bougainvilleas have just starting sending out shoots after they got whopped by very cold weather coming in from the north. In the summer the island is alight with the bright colours...
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Summer garden, 2015 (plus Praying Mantis!)
Here are some photos of our summer garden, now in full bloom as summer has well and truly arrived – 37-39C (97-102F) every day, absolutely sweltering! Sadly the blooms on our Apothecary’s Rose have...
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Spring is Sprung – our 2016 garden
In North Cyprus we have had a very mild, dry winter and now spring is definitely springing in our neck of the woods – the fruit trees have been in blossom for some time now and leaves are replacing...
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