Just for fun post a non-porn pic.

[buttons]

Here's what's growing in my garden and in flower at the moment.

1. Agastache, I love the smell of aniseed that comes off the leaves when you pick and. The bees love it as well. I got the seeds from my mom and although it's rather invasive I like how it grows between the tiles and gravel here at work.

2. Lobelia. I have these in red as well and I used to have brighter pink ones, but for some reason the pinks didn't come up this year.

3. Choreopsis
Always make me smile and they flower in abundance. Everytime I deadhead them the form new flowers. More than worth the €4,- I spent on 5 plants and they flower throughout the summer and autumn.

4. Echinacea Purpurea, purple coneflower. Not purple at all but different shades of pink as the flower is formed. Despite their rather tatty appearance at the moment I love looking out the French doors and seeing the mass of flowers.

5. Salvia, I don't know the species. But another favourite. I love salvia's in all colours, but these purple ones have stolen my heart.

I still trying to find orange flowers, preferably perennials for the garden at work. But so far I haven't had much luck. Doc's Zinnias are on my wishlist. I hope I can find them here, either as plant or in seed form.
Anyone have any suggestions I can look into?

 

[D-Base]

Rain over Sofia:

The "wonder bridges" in the Rhodope mountains (Bulgaria)

Sunny beach resort in the distance...

Typical Bulgarian mountain village

 

[buzzj]

buttons, salvia always makes me think of my Mother. She loved it! She always had the red variety in her garden.

 

[samn3s]

Sorry............couldn't resist

But it is non-porn .... oh wait ............whoops ......it is a little pussy .....

 

[nwdavis]

Sunset in Wyoming

 

[buzzj]

A Palestinian prisoner is seen in the Hamas-controlled Saraya prison in Gaza City.

Religious students, arrested at Pakistan's Red Mosque, are transported to a sports complex in Islamabad.

 

[bimmrboy]

found this in hot topics - had to put it here too

 

[bimmrboy]

HAHA - I almost never come in this thread - saw it in HT first

Sorry for the double post

 

[buttons]

Bimmr, you should come here more often!

Procession of horses and carriages at night in Amsterdam.

 

[buttons]

Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.
This is the back of the Royal palace at Dam Square in Amsterdam.

 

[buzzj]

Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.
This is the back of the Royal palace at Dam Square in Amsterdam.

I think he and I work for the same company.

 

[buttons]

The greek gods? The royal family? Or do you carry big balls on your back as well?

 

[buzzj]

People walk under lanterns hung to celebrate the upcoming Lantern Festival in Tianjin, China

Lamp attendant Martin Caulfield lights a gas street lamp to mark the 200th anniversary of gas lighting in London

A visitor walks past paper lanterns at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where over 29,000 lanterns were displayed

 

[buzzj]

The greek gods? The royal family? Or do you carry big balls on your back as well?

Only those three choices...?

 

[buttons]

And when I wrote them down I said to myself: he's gonna give me the tongue

 

[buzzj]

And when I wrote them down I said to myself: he's gonna give me the tongue

Thrice!

 

[buttons]

I went to the flower market today in search of orange flowering plants and bought some Asclepia, not strictly orange but the yellow and dark pink flowers give it an orange feel.

And as I was looking at the other plants for sale to see if they had more orange I saw a coneflower that's been on my wishlist for some time. Echinacea Sunset and another slightly darker orange one I can't remember the name of. And to my surprise they had the Echinacea Pink Double Delight as well. I couldn't resist and bought a few.

And then as I was walking to my bike I came across a Crocosmia I had been looking for for some time.

Haven't been able to plant them at all yet as it rained heavily for the rest of the afternoon. Something to look forward to tomorrow

 

[tx_doc]

Lovely pics Buttons!
This is the bamboo pathway at the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin.

 

[buzzj]

A boy plays in the waves of the Arabian sea at a beach in Mumbai

A boy washes his face in stagnant rain water in Dalkhola village, India

A young girl reacts to a water sculpture by German artist Klaus Weber, at the Royal Festival Hall in London

A diver dressed as as Elton John pretends to play a keyboard at the Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Goldfish swim in an illuminated fish tank at the "Sky Aquarium" on the 52nd floor of a skyscraper in Tokyo

 

[buzzj]

Lovely pics Buttons!
This is the bamboo pathway at the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin.

Looks like a cool place to beat the heat!