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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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Xris at Flatbush Gardener is the host this month for something new to me, the Festival of the Trees . This is a monthly Blog Carnival also a new idea to me. It is a bit like a meme, but without the tagging involved and acts more as a gathering place for like minded posts and like minded people.I read the call for submissions late Sunday night, past the deadline, at least on East Coast time and

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It is amazing how much work you can get done when you are focused, when the operating thought in your head is "This is It. It is time to be ruthless." There actually is an organized and clean nursery full of healthy plants in there. What a difference a couple of days of work makes.Growing potted landscape plants in the tropics really is a full time job. I am confronting the plant addict in me who

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Tomorrow when I wake up everything will be different. My work life here has officially ended. From this point forward all my energy will be directed to being able to walk through a new door.I better get busy. There is a lot of moss on my rocks and cobwebs in the crevices.Later that same day:At the end of a spurt of busy I am having the realization that underneath my garden there is a very nice

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Lost in the sensory overload of a trip to Molokai was this video of the beach at Kalaupapa. What would you guys prefer, more buzzing bees on my 'East Palatka' Holly tree or a visit to the beach on Molokai?I thought you might like a video with an ocean view more.

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And not saying much.This is not what I need to be concentrating on.Same plant different leaf different light different side.This is a flower on a creeping plant related to Hibiscus that is now a weed because I forgot who it was and no longer cared.God Bless all the soft green lawns.

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What was that paper work I was supposed to be doing?

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Today was my last day working in the third garden of the first client I got when I arrived on Maui twenty years ago. We are one month short of having our 20th anniversary, Darling.It has been an incredibly full and rewarding relationship. Each of the three gardens were unique, constantly evolving and never dull.It was a long day. The garden is in perfect shape to turn over to the gentlemen who is

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StaringAt Organized LinesDesigned

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It has been a while since we had a movie. I thought I would capture another view of the garden that is soon to be no more.I am in complete denial about being a plant addict which was why I could not participate in Hank's Gardeners Anonymous Five Crazy Things. Remember this is a backyard nursery too. Stuff just grows and I have very little to do with it. Don't let the jungley appearance fool you.

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A good way to start the day before I go work on an irritation system.Wish me luck.

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After a few hours of maintenance, Picasa and Blogger are talking to each other again and the cursed red X's are gone and the pictures have returned.I have been feeling a little green, a little split up and prickly.Kind of stiff too. Things are not bending like they should.Maybe even a little greyA thousand different things to do. A thousand things to think about getting done.It all seems to be

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The positions I will get myself into to get a picture of a pretty flower must look comical to another observer.Crawling along the driveway, some what contorted I try to adjust my self to the position of the flower instead of manipulating the flower to make it be in a better position to get a good shot.Purple and White Orchids and and the Tire of an Orange Humvee.

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If you get a chance watch the PBS NOVA show First Flower. Lots of interesting tidbits on crazed botanists, China being the motherland of temperate horticulture, sex and bugs and lots of other goodies while hunting for the first flowering plant in the fossil record. Plenty pretty pictures too.

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What flowers have you not seen on this blog? What flowers might you never have seen? What would be new and different? What will I post for April Garden Bloggers Bloom Day?What is blooming in my garden in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii on April 15th, the American Procrastinators Day of Reckoning?Ilex x attenuata 'East Palatka'. This is the male tree in bloom. It is much more floriferous than the female tree

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Your typical Datura picture. I have not yet been able to call these Brugmansia. I like the word Datura better. This tree has been murdered twice and is back to eight feet tall and in full bloom again.An intimate look at the trumpets hairy funnel.How is it that piles of rounded river rocks just seem to appear one day like I collected them or something at some point? Now I have rocks to get rid

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Some days are less spectacular than others. The sun just kinda sets without making a big fuss. The roof line of my humble cottage blocks the sun and frames the sky.Which made this sunset from four days ago that I told Pam I would post for a bi coastal toast to a good planet seem a bit more interesting. At the time I felt it was too ordinary. Today it looks like a yummy Triple Layer Cake. I think

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This is the Blue Louisiana Iris in its natural state next to the cement pond. It is flush with spring growth and ready to put on a big show. A really big show I hope. The Amaryllis which also fill this bed and bloom earlier around Christmas and New Years have faded away and been swallowed up again by the Iris.This morning I was crouched on my hands and knees peering into a small muddy hole I dug

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Of the Macho Fern, Nephrolepis biserrata.

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I started playing with this image again this evening.Maybe I should not wander into the garden right before sunset.I start seeing thingsThat may not really be thereHeavens to Betsy.

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It just so happens that I was called to a house today where I had planted a bed of the Deep Navy Blue Iris around a water feature. There were a few early blooms in this healthy patch.I am fairly certain this is Iris hexagona. It could possibly be a hybrid, Iris hexagona x fulva.Marie C. Neal's book In Gardens of Hawaii says that C.M. Cooke Jr. introduced both Iris hexagona and Iris fulva into

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Light ShaftedPurple Propellers of PetreaRusted ImageThe Last Yellow Buds from AboveThe Slow Sensuous RevelationEscargot for AntsUpside Down and SidewaysPulsing Red VeinsLeaf Liner

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In Circles.I really should be doing my taxes.There's a Light, LightIn the darkness of everybody's lifeLet the sun and light come streamingInto my life, into my lifeThere's a light

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This is the fruit of the Thatch Palm or Pea Palm, Thrinax excelsa from March the 20th.Now on April the 6th it is getting a more intense pink blush just in time for Easter. Eventually all the fruits will ripen to black. Many will shrivel and dry while still attached to the cluster and the whole thing turns into a shrunken dessicated carcass with no hint of its former glory.One of the other things

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One of the good things about being a gardener is that I get to personally enjoy lots of other people's flowers and gardens. It is also helpful because then I don't have to have everything in my own garden. There is only so much room in any given space. Even in a big space.This water lily was blooming today so I captured its beauty and brought it home with me. A lot of the orchids you have seen on

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In the Cement PotStrange HabitsMickey Mouse Plant, Ochna thomasiana before it has Big Ears.The OctopusLooking Up at One of the Big BoysThe backside of the fourteen year old Pile O'The Eye of a WhaleThe Beak SidewaysHow it HangsLarge Green Bird's Eggs nesting on the Lawn

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Jim Kunstler of Clusterfuck Nation was on Maui last week to give a talk. I missed it. He posted his impression of Maui on his blog. I have not read enough of his work to state what he is all about, but my limited impression of him is that he thinks the combination of the burgeoning human population and dwindling resources are going to cause some very unpleasant major reorganizations of how humans

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I often go for a stroll through the garden right around sunset when it has cooled off a touch and the world is settling down. Sometimes it pays to look east when the sun is setting.Long White Whiskers on a Pure Yellow Flower.Orange Protuberances from Light Green Cylinders.Sit Still Accidents Happen.The light needs to be just bright enough or the shutter speeds slows enough to detect to my slight

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For a resumeChristopher C*****A large beautiful forested piece of family land in the mountains of Western North Carolina was an offer I could not pass up. After 20 years running a very successful Landscape Design and Maintenance business on the island of Maui that began with a pair of Corona hand pruners and a copy of Marie C. Neal’s book In Gardens of Hawaii, I am looking forward to relocating

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It includes an ant that can.

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Argemone glauca, Pua kala, Prickly Poppy.I have been feeling a bit prickly for the last couple of days.The other African Iris, Dietes vegeta.I can tell when some plant has been on a TV gardening show or in some magazine. I start getting a lot of hits on those search words. African Iris has been hot for the last few weeks.Calotropis gigantea, Pua kalaunu, Crown flower.This flower was very

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While I work on a new resume that is less boring and more me I can distract you with these pretty orchid flowers.These are all different colors of Epidendrum species of orchid.The focal point in closeups is quite precise and sometimes hard to get just right looking through reading glasses with fading eyes onto the display screen of the camera out in the wild.This flower is half the size of the

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This is the meat of a potential one page resume. Proper formatting and perhaps a touch of color would be on a printed version. What do you think? Constructive criticism is welcome. I'm a Big Boy now.A portfolio is another matter. Yikes! Life in a small town and all my work from referral has made it somewhat unnecessary. I have never advertised the landscape business in twenty years. Another

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Hello palm enthusiasts at The International Palm Society forum. One of their members got lost in the view at Kalawao and shared it with the folks there. Some of them have been visiting the blog so I thought I would try and really get their juices flowing with an intimate look at a Thatch Palm.It is also called a Peaberry Palm which I did not know until just now because of the small size of the

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The tour of Kalaupapa and Kalawao is soaked in religious history and imagery. As a lapsed Catholic I have made my peace with the Church and organized religion long ago. I don't now and never have recoiled from the art and architecture that is used to speak to the great unknown. For me a lot of the art seems freed of dogma. It is easier to touch the spiritual through art.In Kalaupapa:Refrigerated

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These are colorful enough to count as floweresque. This pepper appeared on its own and a women wandering the garden one day told me it was a Tabasco pepper. She was from Louisiana. OK then.Calathea insignis, the Rattle Snake Plant.A Molokai Harbor Hibiscus.Playing with Heliconia. Two bracts.Four bracts.Orange and Blue.

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Carol at May Dreams Gardens encourages garden bloggers to post what is blooming in their gardens on the 15th of each month. This is my first time to participate. All the bloggers leave a comment on her Bloom Day post as a gathering point from which to wander the world to see what is blooming.Jasminum multiflorum, Downy Jasmine is a rambling shrub with vine like tendencies.Pachystachys lutea,

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Ka Ule o NanahoaIt is said that this stone can help infertile couples conceive. Women would come with offerings and spend the night with the stone and leave pregnant in the morning.Offerings at this fertility shrine continue to this day.Update: March 16thThe backside of Molokai's Phallic Rock looks a lot like a Barcalounger. It would be very easy and maybe even comfortable for a women to spend

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If I sit and drink coffee in the morning while wandering the internet long enough, the rains will eventually come and I can play hooky from work. No need to dash out first thing in the morning and try to get everything done before it rains. It looked moist out there.No that was not another earthquake. It was me taking the camera one handed around the house post in the carport.I am managing to get

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I am feeling a little like some of the ar has fallen out of my ticulate. March has been a very busy month for me and there are lots of others folks I know celebrating anniversaries this month. Somehow I managed to take on two new clients as I near the end here. It is time to get serious about my move and get past the mere scraping of surfaces. The Bush administration continues its free fall into

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Deep Blue Morning Glory trying to hide a chain link fence. It is a perennial that ebbs and flows in vigor with the whitefly. It just looked so cheerful this morning I had to take a picture.Update:I had to change my time zone to PST to get my archives to be in the correct year and month which skews the true Hawaiian time of my posts. Now that I have woken up to a new day I should mention that

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I went to Molokai and nothing was there at least from the typical American perspective. At the first stop in town looking for a bite to eat the tranny waitress, who got friendly after we flirted with her, told us that you have to look around the corner on Molokai to see things.From the beginning this place seemed to be in a strange time warp. The buildings in Kaunakakai, the main town on the

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The ferry to Molokai leaves the harbor in Lahaina at 7am before this major tourist town really begins to wake.The Lahaina Banyan Tree across the street from the harbor covers nearly two thirds of an acre. It is a city park in the courtyard of the old courthouse.The Pioneer Inn directly on the harbor has a wild past. The debauchery of drunken sailors during the height of whaling once filled its

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The place of exile.

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These are certainly the nicest looking lizards I have had the pleasure to live with.We are going on a boat trip to Molokai. I will be back in a few days with pictures.

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Very late last Friday night I saw this promo from Microsoft for their new Windows Vista software and in particular I think the photo editing program that is in this new operating system.It was a photo contest called Show us Your Wow. Submit your best Wow pictures for a chance to win......I'm like, I think someone actually used that word, "Wow" in reference to one of my pictures. I have to enter

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He and his girls are in the same spot every month when I drive by. Sometimes they are on the mauka side of the road and sometimes on the makai side of the road. I have never seen these chickens actually cross the roadand The Bug on My Living Room WallThis creature has been in the house for at least two days.This may be its "I am too big to fit in your mouth" pose for the geckos.

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That evening.Very early the next morning.

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It is a jungle out there and competition for territory can get fierce and have lasting consequences.Take this lizard for example. It was spotted a week ago living in the vicinity of the stairs off my back deck. I have been stalking him ever since to capture this anomaly in pixels.This is a tale of two tails. Some heinous injury must have occurred that didn't leave a clean break.(A little blurry

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For one of my most wonderful sisters, a bigger version of a full Papaya Moon.

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White, yellow and a lavender blush.White with a hint of yellow.Lavender veins and leopard spots.

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EnjoyMaybe I will add some words tomorrow.

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Who's There?A lizard on my window.A lizard on my window with a moth in its mouth.Knock Knock.Who's there?A lizard on my window with a moth in its mouth.Beating the mouth against the glassTo knock it unconsciousSo it will go down quietly.Knock Knock.Slurp

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The beauty of this stand of Yellow Aloe in full bloom has proved illusive to capture because the background in all directions is such a jumble. Darkness eliminated the background and the camera flash illuminated the yellow flower spikes.

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If I don't need a backhoe to dig it up and move it, I am willing to sell it. Here we have five starts of Heliconia indica "Spectabilis" ready to go.Before anyone starts thinking he isn't going to leave them a bush to piss behind, I have been doing this for the last sixteen years. These five starts of this Heliconia are about one quarter of a two year old clump and I have three clumps of the H.

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Sometimes you have to mow the lawns with the help you have, not the help you wish you could have. Over the years I have met a real assortment of characters who have wanted to pursue a career in the dynamic field of landscaping and lawn care. Sometimes they are wonderful lovely assistants. Sometimes they are terribly inattentive, lazy and bad. Sometimes it is just an indifferent job to them to

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A little stroll through the garden this morning with camera in hand to see what would capture my attention and turn up nice on pixels.Flame Vine, Pyrostegia ignea.The ever blooming Butterfly Pea, Clitoria ternatea.Yellow Alder, Turnera ulmifolia with one of our few Butterfly species in Hawaii.Yellow Alder is a tough bug free small almost shrubby perennial flower. In full sun it blooms year round.

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Inside this bag is ono local kine grindz.And you came here thinking this was a garden related blog. Most of the time it is. If you really want to see pretty flowers click that tag in the right sidebar.I suppose in some way this is garden related. This is a main fuel source that keeps this gardener going.A combo plate of Chicken Katsu and Teriyaki Beef, one scoop rice, green salad with Papaya Seed

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If the grocery store in Clyde NC will have sushi made fresh daily in their deli?I am sure the store will have rice. Will they sell it in 50 lb bags?What about Chicken Katsu, Teriyaki Beef and PotatoMac salad?Will there be Lychee and Haupia flavored yogurt?What about Fried Green Peas? Oh My!

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I have been reading that bees on the mainland are in distress and dying off. I do not know if that is true here as well. I do know that when certain plants are in bloom the number of bees attracted to them are enough to create an audible buzz from their wings.Be sure to turn up the volume.

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The sun returns to the sea.And a little higher in the Sky

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Every time I turn my computer on or offI see an image of my future.This country road will take me home.The entrance to my gravel drivewaywill be three to four hundred feetaround the bend in the roadon the right hand side.At the moment this road may be dusted with a covering of snow.The trees are bare.I bet it is cold.Now is when the bones of my future gardenwill need to be strong.

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Many California gardeners are likely to say good riddance. This tuberous perennial South African lily with cymes of blue or white bell shaped flowers in the late spring gets used a lot in California landscapes. At least it seems that way from garden pictures of the left coast. I haven't really spent much time there myself.Like Hibiscus and Bougainvillea in Hawaii which are over used to the point

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Between selling and tossing plants the nursery is beginning to thin out. I have been able to remove the first section of landscape cloth that was laid down to slow the growth of weeds around the potted plants. A very old former bed of Lemon Grass, African Iris, and False Oregano underneath two Manila Palms and a Holly tree had been removed and covered over to make more room for growing potted

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Puff puffExhale. Sigh.

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Yes I am looking at you.I have been tired, crabby and busy all weekend.Busy is fine and productive.Tired and crabby is significantly enhanced I am sureby trying to fuel a biological machineon half a diet of caffeine, nicotine and sugar.It is like trying to grow healthy plantson a diet of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.The results are poor.Somebody shoot me pleaseover to a luxury spawhere I

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The Tree That Saved Itself must be aware of its potential imminent demise. It has decided to bloom. It has gotten a firm foot hold into the ground four feet below the deck and the pot it is allegedly living in and has been growing quite robustly.Clusia rosea blooms regularly in the tropics. The tree does not put on much of a floral display with these unique large waxy white blooms tinged in pink.

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Susan from GardenRant has promised us some regional garden porn from Rob Cardillo's Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region. In the current deep freeze much of the mainland is experiencing many people must be huddled near their computers for warmth and waiting.In a slightly warmer part of the country a very talented Garden Artisan is learning the ropes of all this new fangled internet technology

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It has sagged a little with age, but after fourteen and a half years from its completion of a year and a half of construction it is still standing. It has survived numerous floods located at the lowest point in the garden and a direct shot for all the rain water that can pour down my driveway. It survived the big earthquake back in October that caused a lot of minor structural building damage on

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I will admit a predilection for embellishment. One thing I do not need to stretch the truth about is rubbish. It is generally big and there is a lot of it.One leaf from a Royal Palm, Roystonea violacea, the most common species in Hawaii is longer than my truck. The brown thing behind the palm frond and below the passenger door is a single bract that covers the bloom stalk until it opensAnd you

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Some of you must be thinking there has to be more to that place than just a Useless Pile of Rocks. There is. Let's go on a brief little tour.Here we are at the foot of the stairs that lead to the front door. These formal entry stairs were the very last thing built on this house. The front side of the house was a major source of useless rocks as the ground was prepped for planting.An old Balinese

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A Meditation on Tree TrunksIt isn't just the flowers that make me so obsessive about this tree. The trunk has a Baobab like quality. Things could be living in there that we can't see.2-11-07 6:30pmUpdated for further inspection.Here we have a closeup of a protuberance cavity combo that was working somebodies nerves and causing farm animal flashbacks. This may not help.There really could be some

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The last of the construction debris has finally been removed from the guest parking area that will soon be covered in 3/4 inch grey gravel. I have landscaped to make a paradise and we are putting in an extra gravel parking lot on the only relatively level piece of ground on the whole lot.While cleaning up the existing bed along the fence line on the left and smoothing the ground a bit more before

Christopher C. NChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15621322814577793080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21620580.post-58403864607581099502007-02-09T14:17:00.000-08:002007-02-09T20:41:11.291-08:00

Hibiscus has been having a lot of bad hair days in Hawaii in the last several years. It seems every new pest that arrives has a fondness for this most common of shrubs. Breeders have engorged the flowers to outlandish sizes and created freakish colors that appeal to the American Psyche and a Pavlovian demand for color in the landscape. Everyone has to have them despite the constant battle with

Christopher C. NChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15621322814577793080noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21620580.post-34280677585174128242007-02-08T19:43:00.000-08:002007-02-08T20:01:37.862-08:00

This was in the sky this morning.Since then it has been grey, cold and breezy. As usual it decides to rain a bit when I am done with work. I am freezing right now. I hear they have actual machines that generate heat in the houses up north.The template change is done. I can't seem to convince the archives that it is 2007. This photo has been pre-reduced to %25. It won't be so huge when you click

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Orchid Blossoms at lunch time.Come inside for a little break.4:05pm Hawaiian TimeHang on tight everybody cause I am changing the template.4:45 pm Hawaiian TimeSomebody tell Google and Blogger it is 2007Otherwise I like this drop down menu for the archives.Now back to the daily grind.Still playing with photo sizes in this new beta Blogger.

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