Container Gardening
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The Haworth’s Aeonium Succulent Blooms In Northern Israel
One of my prized succulents is in bloom and it is so wonderful! Ten years or so ago a dear friend passed away unexpectedly, and alone, leaving the community to go through her things. I decided to make sure that her plants didn’t end up in the dumpster, so I took both plants and cuttings…
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Sedum Adolphi Succulent Blooms In Northern Israel
We’ve just done some much needed painting and re-plastering on some of the exterior property walls of our home, which involved me moving a collection of succulents in window box planters. And since those said planters actually made a huge mess on the wall where they were perched I will not be returning them to…
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Great Looking Copper Colored Succulent Called Sedum Adolphi
While I just love this succulent pot of mine, I’ll admit until just now I did not know what it was called! And friends, simply upload a photo of a plant to google images, which then finds similar images enabling you to identify the plant, so simple and such a time saver! Okay, now that…
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Bougainvillea Now In Bloom In My Northern Israel Container Garden
One of my favorite plants, and one that makes a huge statement in my Northern Israel container garden is the Bougainvillea vine, which always pleases! Because we can get quite cold winters, the only Bougainvillea that really is hardy, especially in a container, without a doubt, is the magenta pink one, and that is just…
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How To Get Your Cyclamen To Re-Bloom Year After Year
Isn’t this cyclamen in bloom just lovely? I have to say I can’t remember the bloom of this pot ever having such upright stems, growing in a cluster, stunning! I have had this cyclamen plant/tuber for a food four plus years or so, and while it has re-bloomed in previous years, never quite like this!…
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Thunbergia Laurifolia Blooms In My Container Garden
To me one of the things I love about summer is flowers! And in the month of July, just before things get really hot, there are usually many blooms to enjoy. One of the things that I adore are flowering vines, which are much easier to grow in the ground, but can be grown in…
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Oribe Gorge Succulent Blooms At Last In Northern Israel
Once upon a time a bought a great looking leafy rosette succulent at a local nursery, and when it bloomed glorious orange flowers it was such a treat. Those blooms enabled me to identify the succulent as Oribe Gorge, named for the area in South Africa where they are native. Like every succulent, this plant…
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Canna Blooms In My Northern Israel Container Garden!
One of the favorite plants that continues to thrive in my Northern Israel container garden, year after year, is Canna, a plant loved across the globe for its large leaves, dramatic height and stunning blooms, in red, orange or yellow. While our winters are somewhat hardy, and temps can get to freezing, this plant dies…
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My Israeli Sub-Tropical Container Garden Blooms, In Late June!
My container garden in Northern Israel is now full of color and I just had to share a few photos with you! Looking back at the archives, I see that late June early July has been the time, every year, that the garden comes alive with color. The roses bloom in all their glory earlier…
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Stunning Variegated Bougainvillea Bushes Grow In The Galil, Israel
Wow, when I saw this bougainvillea bush with variegated leaves during our recent stay on Kibbutz Harduf, I just could not believe my eyes. I thought I new just about everything about bougainvillea, but apparently not! It is widely available online, but I have not yet been able to find any info about it, and…
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Canna Blooms In My Container Garden
In the middle of July, both red leafed and green leafed Canna blooms in my container garden in Northern Israel! Okay, not a dense collection of blooms, but rather just a few, but I’ll take it! And I’m really loving the height of the red leafed Canna this year, fabulous! I have noticed that Canna…
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A Peak Into My Northern Israel July Container Garden Blooms!
We are in the 7th year in Israel, a year called “shmittah” in which we let the land rest, and while this also applies to my container garden, it does not mean that I need to let the plants die, but rather tending to them in a more minimal way than usual. Of course my…