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Oct 18, 2010 12:52 AM CST
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A new Thread for us a new season, please put the remarkable pictures you keep sending on here!
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Keats.

This is one I took from the wild Cyclamen in my mothers Garden against an amazing paperbark maple.
Regards,
Neil.
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Oct 18, 2010 10:04 AM CST
Name: Charleen
Alford, Florida (Zone 8a)
Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
Miniature Gardening Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! I sent a postcard to Randy! Tip Photographer I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
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Brugmansia Xena, oh it smells as delightful as it looks, Dear Neil. Wish you could smell it.
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Oct 18, 2010 11:17 AM CST
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Name: Neil
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Dear Charleen, i wish you could smell the meat balls I have made!
Hugs.
Neil.
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Oct 18, 2010 1:37 PM CST
Name: Charleen
Alford, Florida (Zone 8a)
Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
Miniature Gardening Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! I sent a postcard to Randy! Tip Photographer I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
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I know they are going to be delicious. I'm sure.
What else are you having???
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Oct 18, 2010 6:32 PM CST
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Dear Charleen, I have made some sauce from Tomatos from the Garden with onion and garlic in it, plus fresh herbs. Then I am doing some rice and garlic bread!
No Charley, you may be famous but it is our dinner not yours!
Hugs Group hug
Neil.
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Oct 19, 2010 7:09 AM CST
Name: Charleen
Alford, Florida (Zone 8a)
Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
Miniature Gardening Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! I sent a postcard to Randy! Tip Photographer I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
Mules Garden Ideas: Level 2 Sempervivums Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: United States of America Beekeeper
That is o.k. Neil, Charley has a nice sweet bale of hay to munch on. All is quiet on the longear farm.
Group hug Charleen and Charley
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Oct 21, 2010 7:22 AM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
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Some people still have the small mums in their garden. they are greenhouse raised & do not winter over.
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Oct 24, 2010 1:31 AM CST
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Name: Neil
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Dear all, it is great to hear that Richard from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has recovered from his stay in Hospital. He has had some recuperation time in Cornwall and has amazingly put a lot more pictures on his thread, Kew Gardens Through The Seasons as he is back at work! it as at http://cubits.org/Neil/thread/...
May we all welcome him back and look at Kew in its glory!
Regards.
Neil.
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Oct 26, 2010 9:18 AM CST
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Dear all, some pictures from my Garden this morning before it started to rain,
Regards.
Neil.
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Oct 26, 2010 10:59 AM CST
Name: Charleen
Alford, Florida (Zone 8a)
Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
Miniature Gardening Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! I sent a postcard to Randy! Tip Photographer I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
Mules Garden Ideas: Level 2 Sempervivums Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: United States of America Beekeeper
Beautiful Neil, all my favorite plants and trees.
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Oct 28, 2010 10:50 PM CST
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Name: Neil
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Dear all, I got a stunning photograph and a lovely message from Richard at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew this morning. What excitement if you have never seen one, here is the message.
Thank you all for your kind words. I thought you might like to see a picture of a titan arum - Amorphophallus titanum - came into bloom yesterday.I was lucky to catch it as the inflorescence only lasts a day.
His own thread on my cubit Kew Gardens Through the Seasons is at http://cubits.org/Neil/thread/...
Regards to all.
Neil.
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Oct 30, 2010 4:12 AM CST
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Dear all, this year there is some stunning Autumn colour. The R.H.S. Gardens at Wisley are opening early to show off this amazing display.
Here is one of Sarah's many maples this morning.
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 1, 2010 8:39 AM CST
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Dear all, I am going to try to put some pictures on as this new camera is too powerful! So let us see if this works as I have learnt one hopes to set the quality down a bit.
This is one of Sarah's Aconitums or monkshood today when the sun came out. Yes they are still flowering even in the cold.
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 1, 2010 9:25 AM CST
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Dear all, see if this works!
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 1, 2010 9:43 AM CST
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One of Sarah's maples in the Autumn sunlight!
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 2, 2010 2:57 AM CST
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Dear all, Sarah's 'Bloodgood' maple.
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 2, 2010 4:22 AM CST
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This year we have some astonishing autumn/ fall colours so I thought I would put some on for you from my wife's collection of maples! They say it is the best all over everywhere in 30 years.
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 2, 2010 5:44 AM CST
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Name: Neil
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Dear all, taken this morning a Cherry in the early morning sun. Although it does not look like the sun was out it was briefly.
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 2, 2010 10:14 AM CST
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To you Lovely people here are two more pictures I took!
Regards.
Neil.
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Nov 3, 2010 12:26 AM CST
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Another bit of the Autumn/fall colours
Regards.
Neil.
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