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Friday, October 25, 2013

Rumsey Rose Garden (Impressions) - Parramatta. 25th October 2013.

With roads and National Parks closed and a thick smoke haze covering Sydney from the fires still burning in the mountains, today wasn't a good one to travelling far.

The Heritage roses in this garden were a gift from Heather and Roy Rumsey and are now maintained by the Heritage Roses Group and the Parramatta Park Trust.

I would have more of a chance of walking to the moon than putting paint to canvas/paper and it being called 'art'. Today's effort is what I imagined I might have been able to do with easel and palette, if I had the skills, with the roses of the Rumsey's.
Images labelled 'Rumsey Rose Garden' had no labels with the plants or I could just not work out which was which.

Click on photos to enlarge.

Rumsey Rose Garden.

Rumsey Rose Garden

Damask Rose

Rosa rugosa 'Scabrosa'

Damask Rose

'Captain Christy'

'Francecis Dubreuil'

Rumsey Rose Garden

'Old Blush'

'New Dawn'

'Crepuscule'

'Rosa rugosa typica'

'Honorine de Brabant'

Rumsey Rose Garden

'Albertine'

Rumsey Rose Garden

'Old Blush'

'Albertine'

Rumsey Rose Garden

'Rosa rugosa typica'

'Mme Alfred Carriere'

( I will post a follow-up blog this later this week showing the flowers how they really were)

Friday, September 13, 2013

Geriatrically (me) Modified Flora or What to Do When You're Tired.

Science has had there way with modifying some of our food plants but what if someone wanted to change our garden plants to their own tastes.

Something for the red-house.

Now a blue Clivia might make some money.

Would this stop bees from pollinating our oranges.

A red Banksia Rose........maybe?

I could get to like this Banksia Rose.

I would name this Lavender, 'Flame'.

A black Campanula would be popular.

They must leave the leaves green!

Some might get away with it.

I suppose this could brighten up the odd dark corner.

Johnny Jump-ups just wouldn't be the same.

A mauve Maidenhair Fern, looks cool.......mmmmmavbe.

Crabby Apple more like it.

Pink juice in the morning for breakfast.

Just letting of a bit of steam on this Black Friday (13th) after a busy (for me) week helping with some renovations. Thought I might use some functions on the camera that I wouldn't usually use.

Friday, November 16, 2012

When it Rains.....Call on Plan B. 16th November.

A rainy Friday and a medical appointment meant that I had to think of a Plan B as it wasn't possible today to go to where I had planned to go.

I hadn't looked at my stamp collection for some time, and, as this was one of a few plan B's I had in the back of my mind I thought this would be as good a time as any. Plenty of planes, birds, fish, shells, flags, hunters and the hunted,, Heads of State and horses (which became my thematic topic due to one of the first stamps given to me as a young lad was one of a horse, from Iceland) but stamps with flowers were not as numerous, well at least not in my collection. This little exercise might even have you dragging out your old stamp collection from up on the top shelf or in the back of some not to often opened drawer.

I hope this little postal flora journey has your stamp of approval.