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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #495 on: August 16, 2007, 02:14:50 PM »
John,

I suspect your peacock is on Vitex agnus-castus (Chasteberry).

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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #496 on: August 16, 2007, 03:08:28 PM »
No-one would recognise me in a tiara, John!

I love that shot of the rudbeckia... I got a nice birthday card with a similar shot, though not nearly so good!!
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #497 on: August 16, 2007, 03:11:13 PM »
Carlo, I disagree, look at the foliage... this is a perennial... some sort of Catmint? Nepeta sp ?
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #498 on: August 16, 2007, 03:13:24 PM »
Might it be on an Agastache?
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #499 on: August 16, 2007, 03:31:17 PM »
Beautiful clear rudbeckia John.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #500 on: August 16, 2007, 03:55:29 PM »
Sue, I'm voting with you on this one!
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #501 on: August 16, 2007, 04:09:26 PM »
Me too. Great photos, John. The butterflies at last seem to be showing up in the garden. It's been a very poor year for them.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #502 on: August 16, 2007, 04:40:23 PM »
Ok. Suitably chastised. Vitex is blooming here so I've had it on the mind...and when I saw the Buddleja-like inflorescence and the exserted stamens....I jumped where I ought not to have! Must be this bloody sinus infection...

I concede...
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #503 on: August 16, 2007, 05:05:49 PM »
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Must be this bloody sinus infection...

Really? Me too... have you any remedies to help you cope with the damn thing... I get them all the time... misery, bloody misery.
 By the way... chastised.... Chasteberry... very good!
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #504 on: August 16, 2007, 07:36:50 PM »
referring back a page to Mark's post :
« Reply #483 on: August 12, 2007, 11:43:14 PM » and his pic of some snazzy snails....
here is a photo of some of the snails, Cuban Tree snails, in some cases, used to make glamorous earrings for the late Duchess of Windsor in the 1960s ... I love 'em.... the earrings, that is, not the snails but when you see what you can make of the little ba------ds it seems a great revenge for all the plants they've eaten!
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #505 on: August 16, 2007, 07:52:05 PM »
If only I had the lobes! :P
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #506 on: August 16, 2007, 07:59:25 PM »
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If only I had the lobes!
I know, David, they're just not your style.
These, on the other hand......... ::).............
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #507 on: August 16, 2007, 08:01:06 PM »
Me to a T the pink goes with my eyes.
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"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"

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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #508 on: August 16, 2007, 08:20:16 PM »
 ;D   Don't know what I'm laughing for, I've had a bloodshot eye for weeks now, since an eye infection and it doesn't seem to be shifting :'(.. maybe I'd be better with these pink creations instead? :-\
I think the principle of recycling snails into jewellery is a sound one, though... they have to be useful for SOMETHING. Our large Mutisia oligodon hybrid , a  climber with small ivy-like leaves  and pink daisy flowers is home to many millions ( yes, I'm convinced there are that many!) of the shelled menaces... all brown and boring... not a decent earring to be had from the lot of them.
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Re: Wildlife 2007
« Reply #509 on: August 16, 2007, 09:45:46 PM »
I presume you take the squidgy bit out first? :-X
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