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Post by Hil's old account on Jan 25, 2009 18:19:35 GMT 1
Jane, you have some lovely flowers!
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Post by Cherry on Jan 25, 2009 19:11:03 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Jan 26, 2009 9:24:11 GMT 1
Why thank you! I am also addicted to photographing them! More rudbeckias
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Post by janerowena on Jan 26, 2009 9:42:30 GMT 1
Gaillardia
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Post by Cherry on Jan 26, 2009 14:12:03 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Jan 26, 2009 14:51:12 GMT 1
That's lovely TC. I do like them. (very easy to grow annual rudbeckias if anyone is interested!)
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Post by janerowena on Jan 26, 2009 17:28:51 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Jan 26, 2009 17:32:53 GMT 1
I can't remember whether I've posted this one before or not, but it's one of my favourite photos.
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Post by janerowena on Jan 27, 2009 14:00:43 GMT 1
Pink dahlia - and thumbnail. DBH says he's fed up with seeing my hands in all the photos, he's going to make me a forked stick and paint it green.
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Post by janerowena on Jan 27, 2009 14:04:22 GMT 1
North-facing phlox and dahlias, September.
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Post by Juliet on Jan 27, 2009 14:53:53 GMT 1
Pink dahlia - and thumbnail. DBH says he's fed up with seeing my hands in all the photos, he's going to make me a forked stick and paint it green. Could you not just crop the bottom off (from the picture, not your thumb)? If you want to keep it 600x450 you could crop one or both of the sides a bit too. I crop a lot of my photos before I post them - don't think I've had to get rid of thumbs, but I crop out people who have wandered into the side of them, twigs or stems which look blurred, black spot on the roses - anything which detracts from the main focus of the picture, really.
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Post by Amazing on Jan 27, 2009 15:03:07 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Jan 27, 2009 17:38:00 GMT 1
Very purty amazing. I used to get fed up with hypericums in my last garden because they self-seeded everywhere, but they are very pretty and tough too. I think I've got one that has self-seeded here too, somewhere. I'm sure I saw the leaves the other day, i'll have to have another look.
Juliet, I don't notice the hands, but Paul has made an automatic slideshow as our screensaver that comes on after half an hour of inaction. He went through picking out all my best photos and discarded half of them because of my fingers! We have photoimpact on our computer and it is not the easiest of applications to use.
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Post by Juliet on Jan 27, 2009 18:46:35 GMT 1
Amazing, I love that second photo, it's gorgeous J-Ro, I have the same sort of problems using Gimp - there are no instructions so it's quite difficult to work out how to do some of the things which people seem to take for granted with Photoshop. Luckily for me cropping is easy though.
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Post by janerowena on Jan 28, 2009 10:28:47 GMT 1
Japanese anemone 'party dress', complete with hand! ;D It's a bit lower-growing than the normal varieties.
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Post by janerowena on Jan 29, 2009 10:57:01 GMT 1
Rambling Rector
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Post by janerowena on Jan 30, 2009 9:40:51 GMT 1
Liatris spicata alba
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Post by janerowena on Jan 31, 2009 9:15:29 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Feb 2, 2009 10:36:27 GMT 1
More north-facing dry phlox. I knew I had a photo somewhere. This is the clump your chunk was taken from, hilly.
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Post by Hil's old account on Feb 2, 2009 19:02:41 GMT 1
Hi, Jane, the phlox is soaking overnight, and tomorrow I'll plant it in a pot as it's really very cold outside and I don't want it to suffer shock. In fact it's too cold for me to work outside to prepare it's "home"; everything is frozen. It will live in the unheated veranda until the weather calms down. I think it will look great against the dark leaves of the box hedge.
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Post by janerowena on Feb 3, 2009 9:33:27 GMT 1
Platycodon, or balloon flower. The bud looks just like a little balloon right before it opens.
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Post by janerowena on Feb 3, 2009 11:58:38 GMT 1
Can you spot the ghost in this picture? ;D This is what happens when it's freezing cold, you can't be bothered to lift the blinds and open the window, but want to take a picture of your garrya to make kath jealous!
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Post by kath on Feb 3, 2009 13:51:39 GMT 1
Jro you're proving the psychic TAPPERs theory again. I have a pic for you today too.
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Post by janerowena on Feb 3, 2009 13:54:00 GMT 1
Grrrrrrr...
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Post by kath on Feb 3, 2009 13:54:26 GMT 1
Actually, it's the platycodon that's making me jealous. I bought one last year but it hardly grew at all, I had to put a label in so as not to lose it under the geraniums. Hoping it'll come up again this year.
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Post by janerowena on Feb 3, 2009 13:59:16 GMT 1
I haven't checked on mine yet, you've worried me now!
They always look as if they should be annuals to me, for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2009 15:14:07 GMT 1
i have some blue ones they just disappear over winter and then pop up again in late spring , i saved some seed does anybody know when to sew them
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Post by janerowena on Feb 3, 2009 15:20:47 GMT 1
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Post by janerowena on Feb 4, 2009 10:09:41 GMT 1
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Post by Miss Piggin on Feb 4, 2009 11:36:48 GMT 1
Penstemon "Sour grapes" Salpiglossis Lilium "Vulcano"
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