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Showy Canna Tropicana

August 11, 2007 by Tricia

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What other tropical leafy plant has more rows in it’s colorful leaves than a Canna Tropicana? None that I can think of!

I love this plant. It’s foliage is so vibrant that it’s a pleasure to grow in the garden. You can brighten up a patio or an empty space in your garden bed with one of these lovely plants.

It’s flowers are just as showy. None of my cannas have begun to bloom yet this year. They are being very slow for some reason. I’m sure they’ll bloom soon though.

Fading Romance

August 8, 2007 by Tricia

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This is a Romantica Rose – Yves Piget. I thought the petals beginning to wilt and dry up on top looked kind of cool. Obviously this rose is on it’s last legs but it’s still very pretty with it’s raspberry colored petal tips.

I don’t know why, but this kind of reminds me of a desert. What do you think?

I can’t take a bad photo of this rose

August 6, 2007 by Tricia

This rose, Breath of Life, is so gorgeous that I don’t think it’s possible for me, or anyone for that matter to take a bad photo of it:

I’ve been growing this rose at the entrance to my backyard for the last 5 years and as I’ve said I don’t think a single one of my photos of this rose has ever not turned out well.

I suppose it’s a combination of the color and perhaps even where the rose is in my garden – lighting wise as we know those are often factors that make or break a photograph. I mean, I’ve got some lovely red flowers that up until I got my SLR camera I had to struggle to take a decent photo of just because the color red can be so difficult to photograph.

The rose looks more pink than coral in this photo but for the most part it’s usually a very light coral. I love the rose! I also love having such a spectacular rose at the start of my garden as it hints at what visitors might encounter.

Do you garden or do you enjoy taking photos? Have you found that some colors are easier to photograph than others?

If you’d like to learn more about growing lovely roses like this one:

Taylor’s Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties – Flexible Binding (Taylor’s Gardening Guides)

Or if you’d like to learn more about the art of photography:

Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography (Updated Edition)

Phlox and black eyed susan

August 5, 2007 by Tricia

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My white phlox is just beautiful this year. The flowers are perfect.

Did you know that Phlox David has a light scent too? We grow this right beside our patio – it’s lovely to look at and when we catch a little of it’s faint scent it’s nice too.

Do you grow phlox? It’s an easy plant to grow.

The black eyed susans grow right beside the phlox and it makes a lovely pairing when both plants are in bloom.

The phlox’ blooms will die off soon, but the black eyed susans will keep blooming pretty much until it starts to cool.

I’ve tried to pick a large variety of plants that bloom for either a long time, or rebloom several times through the season. I also have a lot of plants that bloom just in spring, just in summer and just in the fall so there’s always flowers around.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Birds at the feeder

July 5, 2007 by Tricia

This is a photo of some of the birds that are always in our back yard. We have two big feeders side by side that are quite large and these birds can eat them clean within two days. Or less!

Piggy birds!

Aren’t they pretty though? They don’t look like much from a distance but when you get a close up photo you can see all the different colors in the feathers on their bodies and heads.

I like the bird on the right who’s head is just poking around the corner. He or she seems to be saying – I see you, I know what you are up to!