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This page contains pictures taken one Sunday afternoon in July. A net friend wanted to see a picture of one of the agave plants, and of course, I couldn't stop at just photographing one thing!
These pictures were captured using a Pentax K10D digital SLR camera.
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A couple of years ago, Stephen found an Agave plant in the "dead bin" at a garden centre and brought him home and nursed him back to health. He was very quickly christened "Spikey"! After we'd had "Spikey" for a while, we noticed that he'd produced a baby, so Stephen repotted him with the aim of separating off the baby into a separate pot. The baby was christened "Son of Spikey" and while "Spikey" was being repotted, Stephen found five or six other smaller babies. Now "Son of Spikey" has at least three babies of his own and I'm nagging Stephen to repot him and put the babies out into their own pots. We haven't noticed that "Spikey" has produced any more offspring, but they may just not have reached the surface in his larger pot yet! |
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Here is "Son of Spikey". Two of his babies can be see near the edge of the pot. |
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We have several buddleia bushes/trees in our garden. Most of them are self-sown, and some are in rather inconvenient places, so may not be staying. The buddleia is known for being attractive to insects, and while I was photographing this buddleia flower, a bee was crawling all over it. None of the bee pictures were that good, though. The buddleia can often be seen along railway lines. It colonises embankments and grows out of untended masonry. |
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This particular buddleia is growing in the driveway. Stephen is leaving it to flower so that the insects can get the benefit from it, but then it will have to come out. |
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There is a line of roses along the front of our property. Stephen has to go out and prune them from time to time or they hang over the footpath too much! |
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Several years ago, Stephen obtained some passionflower cuttings from his Aunt Ellen and planted them in a tub out the front. They like it there very well and have now crept up towards the second storey of the house and have spread along the ground and surrounded Stephen's other plant boxes. They are the main reason why the original "Spikey" is so hard to access! |
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Stephen loves semperviviums. They are also known as "house leeks" and "hens and chicks". They may have other names as well. |
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This is the flowering stalk of one of the varieties growing in a big tub out the front. |
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Last Revised: 15th July, 2007.
