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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    I DID IT!!!!

    Thanks Plantllvr. This is a pic I took up north about 4 years ago. I LOVE the reflections in the water.....  It`s been on my Facebook album for years.

    Now I have to take pics of my pics!!! Uh, oh, then I have to get them on to Facebook. I can do this!!!!!

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2012

    Yippee!  Glad it helped!  LOVE the picture!

    Hey, you really should consider using Photobucket or another free hosting site.  It's much better than storing all your pics on facebook

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012

    The west coast doesn't get much of a fall for foliage

    but I got this one at Buchart in BC

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited January 2012

    WHOOOHOOOO Barbe...You did it. I suppose now well see stuff every other post cuz you are going to have FUN.HaHa! Nice photo.

    Lisa....you must of been a professional photographer in your other life. Nice too.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    Yeah, barbe - you did it.  Yup, artsee was right - I was the one to GUSH about Pan Pastels...

    I know JUST what you mean about the painterly way one can so easily make clouds with the PP's - I just ordered some Extra Dark Shades - and so many came "smooshed" - all cracked, almost too messy to open - so Dick Blick is repacing those.  They have such good customer service.

    artsee - bush???  hmmmnn...moooflowers are about a 15 foot long vine - I wonder if what you have are some kind of datura...I think it may be, they "hang down" and moonflowers open very UP facing - flat, about 6 inches in diameter open, always facing forward or UP...and SMELL...just amazing smell.

    Tho, having once smelled Frangiapani at night in Bombay, India - I now know why everyone I know who has been to Hawaii gushes over Plumeria ( what some folks call frangiapani!!!) - ash, smelling flowers...nice thoughts well, especially cuz it's below zero & we're supposed to get about 6 more inches of snow tongiht...still, a loely season to silently, silently s-l-o-w down and appreciate all my toys (paints, pastels, color pencils)  

    Happy creating everyone!

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    Barbe YOU DID IT!  Can hardly wait to see pics of your picks. 

    Lisa, love, love Buchart Gardens.  I've been there in the spring, summer and fall.  Can't coose a favorite time, they are all so beautiful.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited January 2012

    Sun...Yup,, those are Daturas aka moonflowers. The greenhouses here call them that. These are also fragrant, especially the purple ones. The greenhouse by our lake home up north have the purple. She said she bred them and came up with this lovely color.

    Now you've got me curious and I'm going to Google this.

    Brrr it's cold today. O degrees and the wind chill is way low.Stay warm wherever you are.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    Hi, artsee...the moonflowers on the vine, are a member of the Morning Glory family ( the night blooming version of the morning glory) imponea (sp?) something like that.  I didn't know the daturas smelled too.  The thing, beside the smell, that is SO amazing about the moonflower, it blooms for ONE night, and then closes, and, if fertilized, produces a large seed pod, usually containing 4 seeds if they have time to dry before frost - AND, if you cut the flower, it immediately dies, won't last in water.  Quite an interesting "lesson" in impermanence, for those who need it ;-))) 

    I've actually watched a moonflower "open" - takes about an hour from full bud, you can tell when one is going to open - and when it finally DOES open, honest, you can hear a ittle "pop" - takes about an hour.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited January 2012

    www.desertusa.com/aug97/du_datura_​JS.html - Cached

    Sunflower..Google this and look at the pictures and read what they say. This is what I'm talking about and they call it Datura-moonflower and it's a bush. Let me know what you make of this article.

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2012

    Artsee ... I'm not Sunflower, obviously (lol), but wanted to pass this info on that might help ...

    Sacred Datura is often mistaken for a Moonflower Vine

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    AH, HA...Plantlover, alias Sherlock Holmes seems to have found the answer.  The Datura, thos called a "moonflower" is a bush, and the ANNUAL moonflower VINE is what I was talking about - but NOW, I'm curious, if I can grow a datura in a big POT - as PL's article says - and bring it indoors in winter, and maybe get to SMELL it sometimes????  Wonder how the smell compares to the Moonflower ( morning glory family) vine?

    As it's below zero out now, and about 8 inches of snow, just thinking about the smell of either one is enough to make me smile ;-)))))

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    Anyone seen a Passion Flower? The first time I saw one I thought it was a joke! I call them "Walt Disney Flowers". Anything that goes over the top I define that way....Laughing This is like the one I had:

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    Barbe - I love vines, all kinds of vines, Passion flower and Cup & Saucer are 2 favorites - and all the clematis - especially what happens to their seed pods....what does make me a bit sad, is that something so beautiful doesn't have a strong scent  but then, they're not night bloomers...

    Your reaction reminds me of the first time I saw a Mandarin duck, thoght it was a decoy! ;-)

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012

    I love those flowers, Barbe, they grow here and are lovely..

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    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    A MANDARIN DUCK - aren't they amazing....just LOVE them... ;-))))))

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    Haven't seen the Manardin around here but we do get the Wood Duck on a rare occasion.  Almost as pretty.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012
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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited January 2012

    Those wood ducks are beautiful aren't they?

    I've never seen the other...It's even more gorgeous, if a duck can be gorgeous.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    I love wood ducks too...we have them in western MA.  There are Mandarin ducks in several of the large parks in London, England.  Remember walking through Green Park one day, and wondering who put a "decoy" in the pond...then it moved!  Several "zoo's" have them in the States too...but too sad to see them there...

    That's a MALE we are looking at, the female is, well, not as "fancy" dressed... in both ducks...

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited January 2012

    You are right Sun....all females...not so much! Except of course us humans..haha.

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2012

    barbe1958 .. Oh yeah, I've seen a passion flower.   Definitely a funky & interesting flower.  I sort of hesitated posting these pics because they're crappy cell phone pictures, but here's the one I had growing in my yard this past year.  I picked up the vine when it was discounted at Home Depot and I'm not sure if it's going to be an annual or not .... guess I'll find out in the spring.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    Lisa, I remember years ago when you first posted that Mandarin duck and I said it was a Walt Disney duck!!!

    Plantlvr, I got my Passion Flower at a Canadian Tire (Home and Car maintenace store) store!!! That's one reason I thought it was a fake! I never got it to go through a season though. I hate killing plants, especially such pretty ones!

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    Barbe, I hate killing plants too, that's why I don't garden.  My Father always said I have a green thumb, gangrene!  He could make anything grow.  I saw the line of 40 foot trees across the back of the pasture on the family farm, that grew from a fence he built as a young teen.  I could see strands of rusty barbed wire half way up the trunk on many of the trees.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012

    some years we go on a trip forup to two months so our plants and flowers usually die from lack of water..but the years we are home spring and summer the yard looks great...

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  • thenewme
    thenewme Member Posts: 1,611
    edited June 2012

    Wow, so much beauty shared here!!  

    Here's one of my recent doodles.  BinVa has inspired me to get some colored pencils to experiment with, but until I get my next 40%-off Michaels coupon, it's plain black ink and pencil for me, LOL!

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited January 2012

    New me, that is beautiful. I can't wait to see what you do with the colored pencils.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    thenewme - my most favorite pencils are Faber Castell Polychromos - oil based, they don't produce a "bloom" the way wax based like Prismacolors do.  ALSO, prismacolors are ALWAYS breaking, always, a bummer to sharpen.

    You might like the Prismacolor ARTISTS STICKS - they're woodless - just PURE color - AND

    GET THEE TO A WEBSITE.  I am a tremendous fan of Dick Blick, also have used Cheap Joes - but DB is in IL - easier to ship to you in the mts of CO.

    YOU WILL ADORE FABER CASTELL POLYCHROMOS...also buy a SET - so much cheaper - and make sure to buy a BLENDER - YOUR work is divine...just wonderful...really special

    I'll bet you're a whiz at Celtic Knots!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    VERY cool, the new me! I watched a speeded up video of a guy doing that to an outline of his hand. Every inch was covered with some sort of doodle.

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