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Variegated Japanese Pachysandra 2007-11-23 07:31:00 Variegated Japanese Pachysandra Pachysandra terminalis 'Variegata' (pak-ih-SAN-druh) (term-in-AL-iss) Synonyms: Japanese Spurge, Silver Edge Pachysandra While cleaning up some leaves I was looking at my Silver Edge Pachysandra and wondered why more people don’t grow it. It is a great groundcover for brightening up shady areas and having something a little different. The one knock against it is ...

Thanksgiving Centerpiece 2007-11-22 15:11:00 Thanksgiving Centerpiece I got a late mum for the centerpiece of our Thanksgiving table. It is nice most of the family is here celebrating. To all the American readers out there Happy Thanksgiving and to everyone else Happy Thursday. This was shot with the 50mm @ 1.8. I sure wish this mum came with a name tag! ...

ABC Wednesday R is for Rudbeckia 2007-11-21 05:08:00 ABC Wednesday R is for Rudbeckia If you are her for Wordless Wednesday scroll down to the next post. Here it is Wednesday again. I had a lot of choices for this week’s letter but decided to go with genus Rudbeckia, one of the several genera referred to commonly as Coneflowers. These are great plants for the garden as they are tough, free flowering and mostly reliable perennials. I am never sure ...

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Wordless Wednesday 2007-11-20 01:18:00 Wordless Wednesday Manhattan Street Performer ...

More Japanese Maples 2007-11-19 04:49:00 More Japanese Maples Since the Japanese Maples seem to be popular I thought I would post a couple of more that I shot on Friday. I have been calling this tree ‘Octopus’ for about 15 years now. I am sure that is the way it was sold. However research on the internet seems to point to ‘Octopus’ to being a red leafed cultivar. Oh boy. It seems to have some of the characteristics of ‘Octopus’, as it ...

Yellow Fall Foliage 2007-11-18 07:35:00 Fall Foliage on Japanese Stewartia (S. pseudocamellia) Yellow Fall Foliage On Friday I took my camera to work to try and record a few last foliage shots. The weather sure wasn’t cooperating as it was really windy, some of the gusts, I am guessing were 50 mph (80 kmh). On the Estate we have some big trees that I would say are a little shaky in that kind of wind. We only remove a tree when it is ...

Wordless Wednesday - Saturday Edition 2007-11-17 09:23:00 Wordless Wednesday - Saturday Edition Coral Bark Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 'Sango Kaku' ...

Fernleaf Fullmoon Maple 2007-11-16 04:48:00 Fernleaf Fullmoon Maple Acer japonicum ‘Aconitifolium’ (AY-ser) (juh-PON-ih-kum) Synonyms: Maiku jaku, Downy Japanese Maple, ??????? Since I have been enjoying all the Japanese Maples at work and posted on other blogs, like Ki’s, I thought I would share one of my favorite trees. The term Japanese Maples is usually applied to Acer palmatum but this tree is actually a species (different second ...

Plumeria 2007-11-15 05:42:00 Plumeria Common name: Frangipani I found these couple of pictures on a flash card that had become wedged between the wall and my desk. My housekeeping did have a purpose! It had been there for quite a long time as these were shot in August. When the drug store was getting rid of their stock of Compact Flash cards they were selling the 512MB SanDisk cards for $12.99 I bought 4 of them. It is nice ...

ABC Wednesday ~ Quercus 2007-11-14 04:31:00 ABC Wednesday ~ Quercus (KWER-kus) ‘Q’ was a tough one until I remembered that the Oaks are in the genus Quercus. It still wasn’t easy getting the picture because most Oaks start branching high off the ground. While visiting the New Jersey State Botanical Garden I knew that I would find a nice Oak to photograph. I don’t really know too much about Oaks and really only have experience planting ...

Wordless Wednesday ~ Green Frog 2007-11-14 04:11:00 Green Frog (Rana clamitans) ...

Garden Statues from Skylands 2007-11-13 06:34:00 Garden Statues from Skylands The New Jersey State Botanical Garden If you came for Wordless Wednesday scroll down to the next post. Short post today as I am experiencing a few computer problems. Everything was working so well for so long that something had to crop up. Luckily I have almost everything backed up to disk now. That takes a lot of the worry out of it. Everything seems to be working ...

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Scarlet Maple (Acer rubrum ‘October Glory’) 2007-11-12 04:26:00 Scarlet Maple Acer rubrum ‘October Glory’ (AY-ser) (ROO-brum) Synonyms: Red Swamp Maple, Swamp Maple, Soft Maple, Carolina Red Maple When I first started this blog I said to myself that I don’t want to feature the same plant twice but have come to realize (after about 450+ posts) that way of thinking isn’t right. Since this blog is mainly about pictures I now see that I am photographing some of ...