“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Winter frost
Christmas greetings
Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Alexei Mikhailovich Korin:”The Christmas Tree” oil on Canvas.
from:http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_204213/Alexei-Mikhailovich-Korin/The-Christmas-Tree
Flower market in Kopenhagen
Flower market in Paris
Georges Stein: ”A Flower Market Along the Seine”, oil on Canvas, location: Private collection.
from:http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_86193/Georges-Stein/A-Flower-Market-Along-the-Seine
Trieste Christmas trees
Christmas cactus
Christmas cactus was one of my mothers favourite house plants. I remember the pink schlumbergera I gave to her so many years ago.Who knows how she managed to cultivate this same plant for so many years.Each summer she put it in the shadow of her garden,each fall back in the entrance hall again where each Christmas the cactus opened many many pink flowers to remind us spring is to come soon. Until the spring came my mother was not with us any more.Now I care for the plant wishing my mother would be here to admire the pink show of Christmas she loved that much.
from:http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_255439/Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh/Cactus-Flower
Drawing of S. russelliana, the type species, from the Botanical Magazine, 1839
| Schlumbergera | |
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| Cultivar belonging to the SchlumbergeraTruncata Group | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cactoideae |
| Tribe: | Rhipsalideae |
| Genus: | Schlumbergera Lem. |
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Flower stand at St Ann’s Church,Manchester
Corylus avellana-from winter to spring,from Avella to a wooden ledge
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I often surprises me, how many times things, that seem far away from each other, actually belong to each other, and on the other hand, how things that look like almost the same sometimes turn out to be far apart in their essence.And such a paradox of proximity of two different things , in this case actually evolving one from another ,made me write this post.It was a clear winter day, with a bright blue sky and some snow around,making a perfect winter scene.I took my photo and already taking all these winter pics I realised I was portraying spring!Just look at these Common Hazel catkins!
To make the play go on:the shrub is called Common Hazel, yet the person so un-common as Virgil did write about it:
Virgil and Silius Italicus considered that its territory was not fertile in corn, but rich in fruit-trees (maliferae Abellae): the neighborhood also abounded in filberts or hazelnuts of a very choice quality, which were called from thence nuces Avellanae.from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avella
Talking about hazelnuts from Avella,let us see the hazelnuts on a wooden ledge,just to remind ourselves how things seemingly far apart may be very connected in their essence. And :Wouldn’t it be great if the landscape on the painting would be a Common Hazel bush from Avella?
Edward Ladell: Still life with peaches, white currants, hazelnuts, glass and a stoneware jug on a wooden ledge with a landscape beyond
Blog of the Year 2012 award, thanks petrel41 !
Dear Kitty.Some blog. has nominated my Botanical Garden Blog of the year 2012 award. Reading Dear Kitty.Some blog. About section one sees why this means a lot it goes about changing the world we all live in……to be a better one…
I give a star for Blog of the year award to a blog that has changed my wiev of the world in 2012 the most-it is Rob Viens and his blog
The Beagle Project .Thank you Rob for sharing your posts with us!
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