PRIMA BALLERINA

Fuchsia’s look like dancing ballerina’s with a colorful dress, you cannot but love them and they are really easy plants, they are a bit tender and most are shade loving and like a bit of moist but some like a spot in the sun and others are really very winterhardy. But they all look pretty !

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FUCHSIA TRIPHYLLA (triphylla’s like a spot in the sun but are very tender)

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FUCHSIA TRIPHYLLA ANDENKEN AN HEINRICH HENKEL

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FUCHSIA PAPY RENE

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FUCHSIA VOLTAIRE

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FUCHSIA

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FUCHSIA MAGELLANICA MAGELLANICA (this one is very winterhardy, it is a bush up to 2 meters high and you cut it back very hard in Spring)

Have a great day all !

 

GIANT WATER LILY

Last week we visited a botanical garden in Meise near Brussels, and they had a huge greenhouse with plants from all over the world. One of those plants was the giant water lily (Victoria Amazonica), very impressive ! I had seen it on tv and on photo’s but not in real life.

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LEAFS, FLOWERS AND BUDS OF THE GIANT WATER LILY

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A CLOSER LOOK

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BABY LEAF OF THE GIANT WATER LILY

Have a great weekend all !

ANOTHER BEGONIA FEST

Unfortunately these are not in my garden, we went to a park the other day and I found these beauties !!

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DAHLIA BACKSTAGE

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DAHLIA SEATTLE

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DAHLIA POOH

I just love them, don’t you ??

Have a great day all !

PASSION FLOWER GOING WILD

I have 2 passionflower plants in my garden, the passiflora caerulea and the passiflora constance eliott. But the caerulea is comming up everywhere, the birds like to eat from the passionfruit and drop seeds in the garden and  voilà,you have a strong growing new plant, they are everywhere, despite the heathwaves we have had.

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THIS IS THE PASSIFLORA CAERULEA

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WE CAN’T KEEP UP REMOVING THE NEW PLANTS.( here he made himself a home in a bush)

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(here he found a nice place in an ivy)

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(and here he seeded himself under a tree in a big tongue fern)

IT IS DEFINITELY A PLANT FOR THE NOT SO GREENFINGERED AMONGST US !!

Have a great day !

A SIGN OF AUTUMN COMMING CLOSER

When the flowers of the sedum spectabile are opening it is a sign of Autumn  comming closer. The days are definitely shorter, the evenings colder but after the crazy hot Summer we had I am welcomming Autumn for once, normally I am not so keen. The garden is a mess with burned plants and leafs but the sedum spectabile is looking good, ofcourse being a succulent it loves warm dry weather. And this plant is a heaven for bees and butterflies.

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SEDUM SPECTABILE (also known as butterfly stonecrop or ice plant)

 

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SEDUM SPECTABILE IN FULL BLOOM

Have a great Sunday !

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