Art of Trees and Plants

“You know why trees smell the way they do?” Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. “Sap?” Logan guessed. “Chlorophyll?” Murphy shook her head. “Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years’ worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.” ~ By Frances O’Roark Dowell in 'Where I’d like to be'

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

etching the sky...

a view of Safety Beach...

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

overlooking the sea...

plants in the garden of Portsea Hotel, overlooking Port Phillip Bay...

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Monday, 29 December 2014

leaning low...

plant lined foreshore trail at Safety Beach...

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Sunday, 28 December 2014

weeping round water...

weeping pines frame a water feature at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 27 December 2014

spikes and colour...

unusual flower at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...
It is called Love-in-a-Mist or nigella damascena...

Linking to:
Friday Greens

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Friday, 26 December 2014

flowers and a hedge...

plants near the entrance to the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 25 December 2014

topiary for Christmas...

part of a topiary version of reindeer and sleigh at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

streetscape grasses...

grasses in the streetscape at Hastings...

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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

like a big yellow cup...

yellow flower at Hastings...

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Monday, 22 December 2014

like totem poles...

plants frame a sculpture feature at Hastings...

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Sunday, 21 December 2014

palms and wine barrels...

palms grace a border of wine barrels at King's Creek Hotel in Hastings...

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Saturday, 20 December 2014

colourful border...

colourful border in the main street of Hastings...

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Friday, 19 December 2014

myriad tones of green...

plants at Hillview Community Reserve wetlands in Dromana...

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Thursday, 18 December 2014

tiny clusters of pink...

plant at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

they're huge...

large vegies in the vegie garden at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 16 December 2014

dolphin shape...

topiary of a dolphin at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 15 December 2014

large and pink...

flowers at Queenscliff...

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Sunday, 14 December 2014

bushland foliage...

bushland foliage at The Briars, Mount Martha...

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Saturday, 13 December 2014

hydrangea...

hydrangea at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Friday, 12 December 2014

many shades of green...

plants round a viewing area at Queenscliff...

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Thursday, 11 December 2014

single red rose...

red rose at my school...

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Wednesday, 10 December 2014

stumpy tree...

oddly shaped tree at Dromana beach...

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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

a few spikes...

plant growing near the wetlands at Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana...

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Monday, 8 December 2014

those tall grasses...

grasses and trees near the wetlands at The Briars, Mount Martha...

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Sunday, 7 December 2014

tendrils of blossoms...

tendrils of blossom on a plant at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 6 December 2014

so pretty in pale pink...

flower at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Friday, 5 December 2014

yellow fungi...

fungi at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 4 December 2014

the glory of white...

white flower at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

purple touches...

veggie at the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Tuesday, 2 December 2014

gentle yellow furls...

rose at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 1 December 2014

strange large fluff balls...

strange, large balls of fluff on a plant by Dromana beach...

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Sunday, 30 November 2014

touches of gold...

pine by the Dromana foreshore walkway...

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Saturday, 29 November 2014

a touch of tiger...

flower at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Friday, 28 November 2014

blossom radiance...

spring blossoms in my garden...

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Thursday, 27 November 2014

celebrating spring in pink...

flower in my neighbour's garden...

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014

fern and shadows...

fishbone fern in my garden...

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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

crimson curls...

flower in my garden...

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Monday, 24 November 2014

like striped leaves...

plant growing near Dromana beach...

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Sunday, 23 November 2014

in a world of greens...

view of the gardens at the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 22 November 2014

a purply red...

plant at the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Friday, 21 November 2014

tall tall grasses...

grassy plant in the Dromana Hub carpark...

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Thursday, 20 November 2014

palms...

palms in Dromana...

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Wednesday, 19 November 2014

so many trees...

trees at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

pretty little white ones...

flowers at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham

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Monday, 17 November 2014

flowering cactus...

This cactus is growing at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...
It has never flowered in its two year life span...
An excited gardener, on Monday 3.11.14, pointed out to me the tiny flowers...
They need a macro shot for clear visibility...

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Sunday, 16 November 2014

a little ghostly...

plants along the foreshore walkway at Rye...

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Saturday, 15 November 2014

Watts Cottage in a frame of leaves...

plants frame heritage listed Watts Cottage at Sorrento...

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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening Heaven.

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I want to learn from the TREES.
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Wildflowers are the visual spirit of freedom.

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Gardening involves labour and a liberal dose of luck, dependent on the mood swings of Nature's precocious weather child.
The health of the spirit depends on the weather child within...
Until some kind of Armageddon, when our precious scaffolding melts and natural senses cave! Like a dark haunting of ...maybe!
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Friday Greens - NixPages

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Trees and Bushes - NF World Bits and Pieces

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Fur and Wings

breeding time... - wetlands breeding time in the Coolart wetlands, Somers...
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Black and White Songlines

early morning spaces... - walkway by Safety Beach...
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Watery Songlines

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