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A Day in the Garden
12 responses to “A Day in the Garden”
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They are all so beautiful and different. I’ve never seen the balloon flower before. We have a similar pod looking flower that is a soft green with hairs on it (never found out its name) but that’s as close to the balloon flower as we can get. Rather fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Eloise, thanks for commenting. Would love to see a pic of the flower you described, it sounds really interesting.
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Isn’t it funny the things children do. We used to pop fuchsia blooms (much to my Nan’s distress), and snapdragon plants made great finger puppets.
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Haha! That’s clever! I found the plant. It’s called a Balloon Milkweed. http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantefg/gomphophysocarp.htm. I loved popping these or splitting them to make imitation chameleon heads!
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ow, what an interesting plant. Thanks for taking the time to find it for me.
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I’m loving your photos of your garden, Claudette. They make me all warm which is good considering I have feet like ice blocks at the moment.
I hope that snail was ok as I always thought them traveling across gravel was not a good idea.
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So now I know why they’ve eaten my plants even with me putting lots of gravel around the base of the plants. Claudette, you should have your own gardening programme. 🙂
Sorry to hear that Summer has not paid you a visit yet. Fingers crossed it will travel south to you soon.
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Get that packet of salt out and sprinkle it around your plants, should keep them away (or so I have heard, I’ve never done it myself).
Today looks like it might at least have some sun, so maybe things are improving on the summer front. 🙂
Stay warm on the other side of the world.LikeLike
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I love your flower photos!! I haven’t seen the purple balloon flowers since I was a little girl. They used to amaze me when I was little – they looked like little hot air balloons, then would burst open into such a beautiful flower! The others are gorgeous as well, that one just brought back memories!
Oh, and thanks for following my blog 😉 Best, LeiahLikeLike
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