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| A ready built home for the family, with interior decorating included. Recycling at it's best. She's been sitting on her eggs for a couple of weeks. |
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| A flimsy nest of twigs and grasses in the peg basket. Since this photo, there are now two eggs. |
Happy Friday to my friends, and prepare to take a tour of my tropical garden.
The birds, the edibles, and the ornamentals bring our garden to life each day. We enjoy our morning cup of freshly brewed coffee on our patio before the heat of the day radiates to force us inside. However, salutations to our very maternal Peaceful Dove who continues to sit on her eggs in the peg basket on our Hills Hoist washing line, through the heat of the day and the cool of the night. I am so conscious at times of her lying out there exposed to the elements. and I have even at times in the heat of the day moved the washing line around so that she is in the shade of the neighbouring Golden Penda Tree. Neil has firmly secured the peg basket to the washing line to ensure it doesn't blow to the ground during windy weather which happened last year, when she or another Peaceful Dove was siting on her eggs. She is very used to us now, and doesn't fly off when we walk nearby or do the watering around her. She is now sitting on two eggs, when I took the earlier photo she was only sitting on one egg. It's a beautiful thing really to see her so bravely guarding her future offspring. We are looking forward to the eggs hatching, and hope it all goes well for her.
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| Yellow gerberas saluting the sun |
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| Beautiful Vanda Robert Smith x Asca Thai Ruby flowering again after a few years. 11 years old. A senior citizen in the orchid world perhaps. |
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| Bromeliads flowering at last like a torch |
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| Christmas flowering of lush and tropical Heliconia "Kawauchi", a relative of the banana |
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| A miniature rainforest |
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| Flowering Thumbergia loved by the birds |
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| Italian and sweet basil, our future pesto ingredient |
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| Caladiums in harmony with the Desert Roses |
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| Crotons, Caladiums, Pentas in a tropical medley |
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| Potted Oregano adjacent to the purple ground orchids and tarragon |
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| Everflowering New Guinea bottlebrush tree, a haven for the nectar loving birds |
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| Covered Turmeric and ginger patch emerging |
A beautiful garden. Some lovely colourful plants.
ReplyDeleteThankyou, I love my garden and it is enjoying all the rain right now.
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