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'

Friday, 1 January 2016

summer foliage greens...

greens at Mornington...

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Friday, 3 July 2015

arched entrance...

trees and plants frame the arched entrance to Mornington Park at Mornington...

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Sunday, 28 June 2015

some are papery...

trees along the Dromana beach foreshore...

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Friday, 24 April 2015

a manicured small hedge in autumn...

an autumn view of the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Saturday, 18 April 2015

low and tall greens and a touch of colour...

plants at Ashcombe Maze, Shoreham...

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Friday, 10 April 2015

in the autumn corner...

an autumn view of plants at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015

a tall, tall cactus...

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

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Saturday, 28 March 2015

intimate gathering...

intimate gathering of greens at Montalto vineyards, Red Hill...

P.S. Thank you Nick for identifying this as a featherbush...

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Monday, 26 January 2015

from dark to light greens...

plants in the Enchanted Adventure Garden at Arthurs Seat...

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Thursday, 22 January 2015

green leaves and a green wall...

view of greens at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat...

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Monday, 12 January 2015

framing the wetlands...

wetland plants at Coolart, Somers...

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Monday, 5 January 2015

brushy flower and serrated leaves...

plant at Balnarring...

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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...

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Gemma Mira Wiseman aka Pamela Adams: I've been a creative writer ever since I was old enough to hold a pen. These days, it's the keyboard and I, every morning with coffee, and we spill out poetic wonders. Later in the day, maybe there is some time to indulge in other genres...usually a school holiday treat...Have I been published ...??? in British school activity books, my notes+creative suggestions accompanying videos for schools (also British+an annual U.S. collection of poetry...Have I been interviewed?...online by a writer in Ontario, now living in BC and a writing group in New York... I even wrote a play - 'Riff Raff', in tandem with another Victorian high school teacher. The play toured several schools in Queensland...That teacher now writes one act plays annually. Have I entered competitions?...Yes...+ won a Hanimax camera plus accessories when I was 12... Do I seek untold fame and fortune? No... I just would like to be noticed and valued, making a difference to someone's life; someone who may have just stumbled across my work... Currently I am retired and guide a U3A writing group plus dabble in encouraging teenagers to explore their inner selves through their writing. P.S. I believe in miracles.

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

Rabindranath Tagore

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

I want to learn from the TREES.
I want to nourish my roots. Nourish the deepest, most essential parts of myself.
Spiritually, emotionally and physically.
I want to go out on some limbs.
I want to bloom where I'm planted.
I want to weather the seasons.
I want to provide a nesting place for those I love.
I want to bend without breaking.
I want to learn from the TREES.

- Adrienne - My Memory Art

A Thought or Two...

Wildflowers are the visual spirit of freedom.

- Gemma Wiseman

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!
It's all about the passing of time, with lots of colour along the way.
- Gemma Wiseman

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PLANT CONNECTIONS

FLORAL FRIDAY FOTOS

FFF767 - GIANT HONEY FLOWER - *Melianthus major*, the giant honey flower or *kruidjie-roer-my-nie* (Afrikaans for 'herb-touch-me-not'), is a species of flowering plant in the family *Fr...
3 days ago
Friday Greens - NixPages

CLIVIA - *Clivia* is a genus of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family *Amaryllidaceae*, subfamily *Amaryllidoideae*. Common n...
1 year ago
Trees and Bushes - NF World Bits and Pieces

Roe deer and Common Blackbird - click image to enlarge Roe Deer The female in teh first image was injured. Her hind leg was useless and she walked on three legs. I did not see any wou...
9 years ago

SOME OF MY OTHER BLOGS

MORNINGTON PENINSULA DAILY

may the wings of peace..........dona nobis pacem - For many years now I have been involved in Blog for Peace... It is a story that must never end... (And read Mimi's wonderful celebration of being who she i...
6 years ago
Fur and Wings

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

early morning spaces... - walkway by Safety Beach...
7 years ago
Watery Songlines

winter blues... - wintry blue waters round Inverloch pier...
7 years ago
Macro Songlines

like a touch of whimsy... - plant growing at Dromana beach...
7 years ago

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