Here’s a mysterious stranger from a mysterious land. Looking like something from a galaxy far far away comes Syncarpha eximia also referred to as strawberry everlasting. It grows in rocky areas in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South…
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Loving The Alien
Posted in Plants
The Warmth Of Exotic Sun
|Vireya ‘Cristo Rey’|When was the last time you stared into a sunset, eclipsing the horizon, as it bathed you in its seductive glow? Well if it’s been awhile, here for you today is Vireya ‘Cristo Rey’. Vireyas are tropical Rhododendrons…
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If You Like Piña Coladas…I mean paniculata…
Somewhere in this galaxy of foliage is one of nature’s more interesting leaf patterns. It’s like some punk rock fleur-de-lis. This amazing leaf pattern belongs to Cussonia paniculata subspecies sinuata. Say that three times fast. It comes to us from…
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Into The White
So the other day I woke up really early and was feeling kinda ‘meh’ about things. So I dragged myself outside before the sun was up and watered the garden. Watering the garden is one of the most meditative…
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Posted in Inspiration, Style
Furnishing With Future Flora
A very saavy and sophisticated pal of mine gave us a very stylish housewarming gift recently. Check it out…its a tillandsia with a mind all of its own called Tillandsia duratii. Now Tillandsias are everywhere these days. Thanks to people…
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