Gardening
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Four Easy Care Flowering Plants For Your Sub-Tropical or Zone 5/6/7 Container Garden!
After a long winter in Northern Israel, and a bit of a slow start in the Spring due to more rainfall than usual, my somewhat neglected (or shall we say low-maintenance?) container garden is now coming alive with gorgeous blooms! Somewhat of a miracle though likely thanks to husband’s recent interest in watering our botanical…
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Essential Tips For Creating A Family-Friendly Garden
Pride Of Madeira with its huge cones of purple flowers grows effortlessly in Northern Israel. Israel has a large variety of plants: the country’s cities and suburbs are amass with flowers which attract all kinds of wildlife with no less than 2600 varieties and over 135 types of butterflies! In order to do our own…
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Lantana In Bloom Is Stunning And Drought Tolerant
I have a soft spot for Lantana, the plant which is characterized by balls of colorful flowers that are made up of clusters of the sweetest little flowers you’ve ever seen. And so earlier this week when I was out and about with my camera one morning, I just had to capture a few shots…
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Pride Of Madeira, Dramatic and Draught Resistant In No CAL and Northern Israel!
The Pride Of Madeira plants that I planted in a little neighborhood garden that I designed four or so years ago are in bloom, and it is truly a gorgeous site! I thought I’d share a few photos with you for those of you who might like to try a plant that has a great…
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Hedenbergia Vine In Bloom, On The Late Side…..
If you follow my blog, you may already know that I just love sharing with you signs of the changing seasons. Migrating birds, blooming trees, ripening pomegranates and grapes are just a few of the things that make us excited around here, and I now share with you my yearly photos of my hedenbergia vine…
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Collecting Seed Pods From Cyclamen And Other Flowering Plants
Did you know that you can collect seeds from your cyclamen plant? This is if you’ve managed to keep it alive until now? This is the first year that I have actually made a concerted effort to properly care for a few of the cyclamens plants in my container garden, with the hopes of getting…
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A Beautiful Garden Grows In Central Israel……
Can anybody out there identify this lovely tree with lilac-like blooms? No luck with Dr. Google…… Last week my husband and I happened to drive by a wedding hall with a fabulous garden, and we just had to take a peek. Here in Israel weddings tend to be very large and so there are many…
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Slice of Life – Berkeley In Bloom, Gorgeous Flowering Shrubs
As you may have figured out by now, I have actually been away from my home in Israel for the past few weeks visiting with my mother in California and now with family in New York. I feel so very fortunate to have made the visit this year in the Spring, as the show of flowering shrubs and plants everywhere…