Capture: Spring Breaks
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Lilith __, in reply to
Oh Lilith! Do you know the name of that top pink magnolia? It is none other than Mark Jury, named for him when he was but a small boy. We have the original plant in our park here.
Oh how wonderful! :-) The Botanic Gardens' specimen is large and handsome, and wafting a tantalising scent from flowers that are too high to sniff directly!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Yes indeed Nora! Soft and slightly uncanny…
Oh, or possibly siamese twin mice?
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Hauraki plains, turning on the mistiness. And a horse, of course.
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Lilith __, in reply to
turning on the mistiness
Hey, spooky!!
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I give you scary trees, and
cloud punctuation
South Hagley.
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No horses, no mist, no scary trees, no My Little Pony even
just a magnolia
and a (ripe) alpine strawberry
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Lilith __, in reply to
just a magnolia
and a (ripe) alpine strawberry
Just scary alien life-forms! :-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
alpine strawberry
Is that a canary berry?
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Lilith __, in reply to
canary
Awwww!
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Spring broke,
Grass grows.
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Hebe, in reply to
The Botanic Gardens’ specimen is large and handsome, and wafting a tantalising scent from flowers that are too high to sniff directly!
Where is it in the Gardens Lilith?
You have a wonderful suite of pics today – I especially like the magnolias looking up and the daffs looking across.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Thanks Hebe! I entered the Gardens over the footbridge from the daffodil woodland, and walked alongside the river towards the Curator's house. The Mark Jury and several others are to the left of the path (ie.facing the river).
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Hebe, in reply to
The Mark Jury and several others
My Great-Uncle had a fondness for magnolias – he probably arranged to have them planted near his house!
The woodland is lovely in flower. I believe that many of bulbs were planted as the result of fundraising post WW2.
Twenty years or so ago Vicki Buck had the very cool idea of planting bulbs in the median strip of the neglected Linwood Ave, now it bursts into colour at the eastern end every spring. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
flora abunda...
...amazing magnolia perule
I never knew that!
I'd gone with 'furry flower pod' for decades and now I find the floral envelope has such wonderful names: perula, perianth, perigone and calyx...
a rosebud by any other name...
Now I no longer languish outside
the secret lives of flowers,
but I do not go genital into that,
good night!(sorry Dylan T)
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JacksonP, in reply to
Spring broke
Howdy stranger. You have been spotted by eagle eyed M in our neighbourhood. Is this a flying visit, or are you around next week for neighbourly imbibing?
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This morning’s cloudscape.
And 15 minutes later.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Hiya JP. I’m off back north in the morning but back Wed night so Thurs nite at the Hood sounds good. See ya then then :)
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Hebe, in reply to
Blue mackerel sky.
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ChrisW, in reply to
And 15 minutes later.
Apart from the framing, I see a resemblance to yours in my plum tree on Tuesday. Today's sky not at all like this though.
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Lilith __, in reply to
my plum tree
Beautiful!
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A regiment of wallflowers and a bare tree. Botanic Gardens.
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BenWilson, in reply to
I recognize the chairs. Pt Erin Pool? Many happy memories of sunburning myself lying on the pebbles in front of those chairs (although they were different chairs back then). The stones would get super hot so we'd wet them a little then lie on them until we'd sucked the heat out, then move along a bit. A time lapse shot would have shown a group of children apparently sliding along the ground on our stomachs, diving in, then getting out further along and repeating.
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BenWilson, in reply to
Beerz in da hood? Gots study break, can haz?
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
I see some more resemblances from April.
And one in pink.
And this must've been late in the afternoon.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Cool 6 fits. where is our Jackie these days?
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