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Aloha Maui No Ka OiAloha Tropical EmbellishmentsTo a North Carolina mountaintopYou will find me there.Just Outside Clyde.

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If you were hoping for some great final essay from Maui you will be disappointed. I had planned to write something. I wanted to. The art of procrastination is reserving it for a cold snowy day when I am trapped indoors and can reminisce. From a distance things will always be blue and green.Progress continues to happen. My slice of the sky has always been cropped to remove the less attractive

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Half-breed SamoanThe picture is straight.I have always leaned slightly askew.

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Before I loaded the truck with plants to take down to the nursery in town, drove to the other side to look inside my air freight Big Box and see the actual interior dimensions and to buy real boxes and cardboard to pack my paintings, instead of dumpster diving for boxes, I looked out the window and the delicate flower of the Variegated Shell Ginger smiled back at me.The flowers are quite nice,

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It was another moist like day with the sky contemplating rain and offering up only minor sprinkles. I was inside most of the time packing my life into a corner. A test space for my big box that is being sent air freight. Everything must fit in a 48 inch by 40 inch by 58 inch tall, rigid shipping box.I would guess this Papaya is about 25 feet tall. It will not fit in the Big Box. The top of the

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Heliconia bihai in the flesh, raw and unedited.Apparently there may be some genre of porn of which I am not aware. When I did the post on Ms. Derviss' new blog Garden Porn, I kept getting hits to my blog from the search words Tropical Porn.This post should keep the blog active while I drive cross country.

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A new policy has been instituted. If it goes outside to get sold, it is not allowed back inside. The result is the house is pretty much emptied and actual packing has commenced. The carport is surprisingly tidy considering how much stuff it now contains.I rarely dropped the blinds in the bedroom unless I was trying to take a late afternoon nap. Who would want to hide This View from My Window.I

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Another long day has ended. More stuff and more plants have left the premises.The Buttercup Tree keeps on keeping on. It is spitting out flowers on some of the water sprout branches forming on its beheaded major limbs. Such radical pruning of trees generally causes the opposite of the intended effect and makes the tree grow taller much faster. It's next pruning may be even more radical, like to

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If my blogger Icon, Darkie, the traumatized baby kitty, who was a cantankerous cat most of his life, but learned how to love and be loved before it was all over, survives the night I will be surprised.His time has come to let go of the bonds to this earthly plane. After dinner he wandered out on the lawn in circles confused. Much more confused. I spent quite a bit of time sitting on the lawn with

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When you stand back a bit, the hundreds of tropical flowers I have been showing you all this past year fade into the jungle green. Standing at the bottom of the drive next to the carport, a generous river of grass beckons you down into the garden.My garden is not going to win any design awards. It was always a collectors garden of experimentation. How will this plant do in this climate and under

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Not every sunset is spectacular. Sometimes the sun just fades into grey. My cleaning and digging frenzy has sent so much dust and debris into the air that the normal Trade Winds high pressure system has moved and we are having a strange summer Kona Wind. The air is humid, hazy and thick. It reminds me of Florida in the summer time. Not pleasant. We are at least fortunate that it is only 85

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Here is something to look at while I work on a longer post. Oh what care free days those were back when I had a job and so much free time on my hands. Unloading a house full of rubbish, a nursery full of plants and fulfilling final obligations is a full time workout.The Thatch Palm's pea sized fruit are heading to dessication and are now fully black.This woven fiber mat wraps the trunk.I have a

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Did I ever really leave home for such a long time, half of my life?Right before I move back, closer to my place of origin, this tree I know, of familiar times and places goes all southern on me. The Crape Myrtle is about to go off.I can feel the Spanish Moss in this scene. I have always been able to, even though it was not there. Something about the light quality in this corner of the garden

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The jungly abundance is putting on a tropical spring show as I wander it's nether regions doing things to it. A lot of new air and light is reaching into the hidden recesses. As long as it continues to get water it will close back in on itself once more.Some slightly blurry baby Avocados. Ring-a-ding-ding.Alliums can become my new Agapanthus in the colder climes of mountaintop gardening.I should

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While I still can, I figured I should give the people what they really really want, the exotic and the tropical.Garden Bloggers Bloom Day gathering spot is at Carol's May Dreams Gardens.What could be more mundane and typical of Hawaii and the tropics than the Bird of Paradise, Strelitzia regina. It is primarily a warm season summer bloomer. The common name can be a problem at times. Bird of

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From the dust and debris for an evening stroll through a shrinking garden. My sunset slice has shifted and now includes my Cocovane Weather Palm.It is the best time to review what progress if any has been made for the day and to look at the little things that still give me pleasure. Something to soothe a wicked tired body and mind.Something pretty in blue emerging.This big red one accidentally

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To look a lot like.....I don't wear shoes when I garden at home.That I will have an exotic slippa tan for my cross country trek.If they don't make me wear shoes on the mainland.Do they make you?That I have walked through a lot of biological ooze.I could use a pedicure.Or scrub harder when I shower.It's beginning to look a lot like......I should buy one new pair slippa before I go.

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Emperor Cri'sTerracotta Army of Maui gets a sentinel stuff.Some pots were sold.Some pots were added.Equilibrium has been maintained.Indoor stuff being sent outside.Freshly weeded slightly piqued succulent stuff.Big Bromeliads in Buckets stuff.Discombobulated indoor stuff hoping to land in a shipping box.We'll see.Tiny lavender flowers on long skinny stems stuff.Sigh. So much little stuff to go

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In the Big Picture Show of Life, one of its inevitable truths is fast approaching. "Whatever is subject to arising is subject to ceasing." The vibrant beauty and vitality we see now will fade, wither and decompose. The Noble Truth of Impermanence has come calling.The first time I heard of this common sense notion was reading the good Dr. Leda's Rose Journal at Regan Nursery. It is easy to go uh

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With Toad

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One garden is coming to an end. Very soon, in the desert, all that may remain is a ghostly image of a formerly lush and bountiful landscape. A minimum of water will keep the drought adapted and drought tolerant who currently dwell here alive. Some will not survive.A solid stone structure with no cement, no binding element but gravity can crumble and fall as well. Not quickly. Stones move at a

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Sunset from My Window May 3rd 2007 6:45pmOne of The Views from My Window has finally made it onto Andrew Sullivan's blog if some what incredibly indirectly.The World From Your Window is an interactive map of the world with the beginnings of the collection of the window views sent into Andrew by the readers of his blog. An intern of his set up the map and you can wander the world looking out of

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My Favorite Frond.Aging Beauties.Who or what is supposed to find this sexy?It's Alive .Xi'an Terracotta Army of Maui.I forgot to stop and smell the Orange Blossoms.Are Killer Ants killing the Bees?

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Retirement is exhausting. My beautiful pile of rubbish has been turned into a ridiculous collection of ceramic pots. There are a few cracked pots among them.Where did all these pots come from? I swear they must be mating in the shrubbery and giving birth to baby pots. I know there are still more out there to be found.It is a bit like untangling a big giant hairball stuck in a drain pipe so that

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To go with Xris' theme of Trees in the Concrete.Buttercups Cement Iron and Plastic.A daytime view.

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