First thing - it is my mother's birthday today - Happy Birthday, Mom! You are absolutely the best mother anyone could ever ask for! I love you! My blog today is dedicated to you!
Our Mentorship in the Garden night at the local botanical gardens last week yielded many opportunities to photograph the color red! My first one was this plant - a new one for me. This is a Pagoda Plant - very unique and pretty.
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| Pagoda Plant |
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| Close-up of the bloom of the Pagoda Plant. |
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Great gold-digger wasp - in the thread-waisted wasp family.
Thanks to Ms. Becky over at Shaking the Tree, I now know this is a Sea Holly plant... |
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| What a clever use of old boots! |
Linking to
Ruby Tuesday 2.
21 comments:
the old boots are wonderful! You wouldn't call your mother an old boot though would you?
Beautiful series of photos! So love the pagoda plant and the arrangement of those boots is so creative!
Wow, I am so impress about the boots! Happy birthday to your mom:)
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Happy Birthday to your mom!! Like the boots it's very clever to recycle stuff. ^_^ That pagoda flower is beautiful I bet bees love it.
Kim, USA
Love the boots planters!
Fancy Cream Puff
happy birthday to your mom
lovely pictures... the wasp wow..working as hard as a bee!
Wishing your mother a very happy birthday. I hope it is one of the best days of her life.
The pagoda plant is charming!
Locked Red Door
Happy Birthday to your mother! The flowers are beautiful and I like the boots used as planters!
Happy birthday to your Mom! Love the idea of the boots as planters.
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Hi Linda, Love, love, love those rubber boots! They are adorable. Tell your Mom, "Happy Birthday" from the Pacific Northwest. Thank you for popping in and visiting my blog, you always say the sweetest things. Have a lovely day with your Mom, Connie :)
I like the wasp on the Sea Holly. I have photographed that plant several times. I have a fun one from mentor night a few years ago (I'm also part of HRDSC but have missed the last several meetings) with the breeze blowing as the light failed. It's a great place for photographs.
Cheers.
Lovely post for your Mom, Linda! I love the cute boot planters. Tell your Mom Happy Birthday for me.
Such gorgeous close ups!
Loving the pagoda plant, which is new to me too. And happy birthday to your mom -- :)
Oh...happy birthday to her...Go Bless her and all your family!
Hugs from my heart!
Isabel...aka
BlueShell
Wow..I love those boot planters.
Wow..I love those boot planters.
We have a nursery here that sells plants potted in old work out workbooks and cowboy boots. They must have a deal with Goodwill to find them all.
Never seen galoshes done before. Love the bright colors.
I got to go find me one of those Sea Holly plants. Love everything about it.
Lol, I love those boots as flower pots. Very creative and the flowers...speechless
Lovely post, Linda. I hope your mother enjoyed her special day.
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