Capture: Roamin' Holiday
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Islander, in reply to
That all worked well Hilary - the pupae are just in the initial stages of pupation , so excellent to see - thank you! And everyone else, especially for the flower photos-
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Birds of paradise via google picasa this time
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Lilith __, in reply to
a cerise and deep blue bush growing side by side--which ought not happen as acidic soils produce one colour and alkaline soils produce the other.
I used to have a bush that flowered blue tinged with pink. I assume it was a special variety that did that!
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You’re both right. There are hydrangea species in which pH affects flower colour (most notably H. macrophylla), but there is some genetic diversity in baseline colour within those species, and there are also other species with different flower colours (including white).
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Finally, a photo. Black-eyed Susans in the Indian Baghra garden at the Hamilton Gardens yesterday.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Love that hydrangea pic. I’d never really appreciated them until the first of the two amazingly atmospheric rain scenes in My Neighbour Totoro.
And his stunning azaleas, or maybe rhododenrons, as seen above from Spirited Away. -
Another one, of the Renaissance Garden. If you have never visited the Hamilton Gardens, you ought to. Something quite extraordinary wandering from the English Garden, to the Japanese Garden, to the American Modernist Garden to the Italian Garden to the Maori Garden. Three new areas are being built: Surrealist Garden, Tudor Garden and Tropical Garden. Wonderful productive/sustainable gardens too.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Oh yeah, Totoro! The landscape in that was the biggest star. (BTW your link is broken) Also Arrietty (you may wish to mute the sound to avoid the vomit-inducing rhyming voice-over).
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Oh yeah, Totoro! The landscape in that was the biggest star
Meant to credit background artist/director Kazuo Oga.
(BTW your link is broken)
The Totoro pic or the Spirited Away .gif? Both seem OK here.
Yeah the Arrietty voiceover is awful. The voice dubs of the Ghibli/Miyazaki films have been pretty immaculately done in the past.
Geoff Lealand: Those gardens look stunning. I remember in the early 90s there was an attempt by religious fundies to have human-sized statues of Ancient Egyptian deities removed from a Hamilton public gardens. I seem to recall that the Council caved in. From the photo I recall they looked pretty nice. Hope they made it back at some point.
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Lilith __, in reply to
the Arrietty voiceover is awful
I think this is the fault of the trailer, not the film. It seems to be pitched at 2-year-olds! But the film itself is much smarter.
The Totoro link gives me a stern error-message to "use the share links".
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JacksonP, in reply to
The Totoro link gives me a stern error-message to “use the share links”.
Me too. Maybe we’re not in Kansas anymore, Totoro?
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Lilith __, in reply to
Me too. Maybe we’re not in Kansas anymore, Totoro?
Hah! Or, indeed, in Africa.
ETA: Would Russell Brown look like that guy if he grew a beard?
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Ah.
Nice Totoro pic with atmospheric hydrangeas. Click to enlarge. -
Geoff Lealand, in reply to
They are still there, down the Camellia Walk and at the head of the pool where the entrances to the Chinese, Japanese, English, American, Indian and Italian gardens begin. Much posing for photo ops going on around them yesterday.
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Hebe,
Because these are so South Island summer to me.
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Hebe,
Succulent flowers
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Lilith __, in reply to
Ah yeah. And speaking of succulent.
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In real estate-speak, we now have inside/outside flow with doors to the deck finally installed. No more crawling out the kitchen window for my daughter or going out the back door and up the stairs for us. Maybe it will stop Josephine watching that bloody Living Channel so much!
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Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
I used to have a bush that flowered blue tinged with pink. I assume it was a special variety that did that!
It was gay.
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Lilith __, in reply to
It was gay.
Flowering plants are hermaphroditic, y'know. :-)
I have some nice photos of the blue/pink hydrangea, but I ended up using them for work so can't post them here. But the web provides other examples. -
Jackie Clark, in reply to
Oh Geoff - that is wonderful! I look forward to decking it in person.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
Toi toi. Hayfever in a picture.
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Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
I have some nice photos of the blue/pink hydrangea, but I ended up using them for work so can't post them here. But the web provides other examples
All it needs is a few mirror balls and a gin. Tres gay.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
All it needs is a few mirror balls and a gin. Tres gay.
The garden needs bears, surely.
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Lilith __, in reply to
The garden needs bears, surely.
You're not talking about a teddy-bears' picnic, are you?
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