Category Archives: flowers

Garden of Extinction reblogged from champagnewhisky

Posted on October 18, 2017 by

Reblogged from champagnewhisky… “Any species, now matter how unusual or common, is vulnerable…”: Of all the areas of the stunning Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa – and all the areas are stunning – one in particular … Continue reading →

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Field of dreams..?

Posted on September 3, 2017 by

Long, long ago, when the world was still young and I was younger still, I moved into a house with a garden. It wasn’t much of a garden, long-deserted, overgrown and gone to seed, but my mind painted it in … Continue reading →

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Pensée #midnighthaiku

Posted on May 26, 2017 by
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Daffodils

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

Colleen’s poetry challenge.

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Lily #midnighthaiku

Posted on March 9, 2017 by

Where inner light shines The gilding of the lily Seems superfluous The picture was taken in a chapel of the Cathedral Church in Sheffield, an ornate nineteenth century building based upon a fourteenth century design.  After the Reformation, when the … Continue reading →

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Guest poet: Mbizo Chirasha – Identity Apples

Posted on March 2, 2017 by

 Identity Apples I am a fat skeleton, resurrecting From the sad memories of dada And dark mysteries of animism I am Buganda I bleed hope I drip the honey of fortune Makerere; think tank of Africa I dance with you … Continue reading →

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Container gardeners

Posted on March 2, 2017 by

The sun rose this morning on a misty world, finding its way through scattered clouds. Although the air is chill, yet there is a feeling of spring burgeoning with determined inevitability in the hedgerows and fields.  Houses huddle together for … Continue reading →

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