Images of the arty kind

[Ragged Robin]

Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?

[Anthony Darby]

I agree, it is fantastic.

[Paddy Tobin]

Anne Karin,

Love the grasses.

And the trillium ... and the orchid.

Paddy

[Rogan]

"Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?"

Stenoglottis fimbriata - a common orchid found growing on rocks in the moist and shady forests of eastern South Africa.

[Anthony Darby]

"Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?"

Stenoglottis fimbriata - a common orchid found growing on rocks in the moist and shady forests of eastern South Africa.

Does anyone grow this orchi 'in captivity'?

[ranunculus]

The sky tonight ...

[Ragged Robin]

..shepherd's delight, Cliff, and mine too 

[Maggi Young]

..shepherd's delight, Cliff, and mine too  

 Stunning shot.... but more scary apocalypse to me than shepherd's delight..... fires of doom.....
Well caught, Cliff!

[mark smyth]

We had a sky like that also -glowing coals

[Paddy Tobin]

Very rich colours, Cliff.

Paddy

[Rogan]

"Does anyone grow this orchi 'in captivity'?"

It is quite popular here in specialist collections and can be used in shady, moist areas of the garden. There is also a large (tetraploid?) form available called 'Venus' - I'll have to post a photo when our specimen flowers later on in the season.

[ranunculus]

I can't remember if I posted these here when I took them a couple of years ago ...

[Paddy Tobin]

The first one is a topper, Cliff.

Paddy

[vanozzi]

That first clematis picture is rather stunning.

This may not be very arty, but I love it and don't know where else I could share it with other nature lovers.
It is a picture of my dam on my hobby farm in Tasmania (sold 2 years ago) The depth is 7 metres as it's in a gully and is 4.5 million litres capacity.The water was used for irrigation of my cherry orchard and of course my daffodils and liliums.Being that deep and fed by a winter creek, it was suitable for trout, so I stocked it with 100 fingerlings.They lasted one year, cormorants flew up from the Huon River and devoured the lot.I had planted many nectar producing trees and shrubs around the dam, so the birdlife was abundant (spot the pair of water fowl), not to mention the quolls, wallabies, wombats, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.The possums were a pain, they are in plague proportions everywhere and just devour rose bushes.No matter how much you've thinned your Japanese plums, they attack the fruit in such numbers that the limbs are ripped from the trunk.But who could resist spotting a platypus in the late afternoon, whilst listening to a chorus from the frogs.
A very peaceful haven that I miss.

[Paddy Tobin]

Paul,

Beth Chatto, a very highly regarded gardener in England, has a similar "pond" in her garden and, like yours, it is simply wonderful.

Paddy