Tag Archives: gardens
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped (IV)
10Monday 18 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fourth and probably final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge shows a gazebo (we think) that …
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Flower Friday – Lemon Tree
11Friday 20 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
With a normally quite short and mild winter, some of our fruit trees get a bit confused, with new flowers …
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Flower Friday – Autumn Sun
3Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in the autumn – Turkish sun brings out all the best colours around these parts… . .
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Flower Friday – Syros Streets
6Friday 06 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here’s another look at some of the street flowers of the Greek islands. This time we are in the Cyclades, …
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Flower Friday – Colour in the Gloom
9Friday 23 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my flower for this week. It was a dark winter’s day, but this lonesome bloom was determined to …
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Flower Friday – Pot plant?
7Friday 16 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken in mid December in a park in Turgutries, on the western coast of Turkey. . .
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Flower Friday – Flowers (& Laundry!)
11Friday 09 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken in mid December in the back streets of Bodrum, on the western coast of Turkey. . .
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Flower Friday – Floral Gateway
5Friday 02 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken in mid December in the back streets of Bodrum, on the western coast of Turkey. . .
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Flower Friday – Wallflowers
4Friday 26 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Taken a few days ago in the back streets of Bodrum, on the western coast of Turkey. . .
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Citrus fruit update
10Thursday 18 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Most of the fruit is now being harvested, dodging in-between storms. Clementines are our primary crop, and sweet and juicy …
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My autumn colours #3
11Tuesday 16 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is the third in the series looking at our late autumn colours around the farm. We get the usual windswept …
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My autumn colours #2
4Friday 12 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Following on from the first look at our late autumn colours, we continue our photographic tour of the farm. With …
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Flower Friday – Floral Astypalaia
6Friday 12 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Back on the Greek island of Astypalaia, part of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean, this summer I managed to …
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Reminders of Summer
13Thursday 11 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. Just a few weeks ago it was still summer(ish) . . We visited some friends in October who were …
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My autumn colours #1
6Wednesday 10 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Apart from the beautiful skies of November, our winter is mainly a mixture of sunshine (80%) and storms (20%). However, …
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Out with the old…
1Monday 08 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
End of autumn = time to pull the summer veggies . . One last bucket load to enjoy . . …
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Flower Friday – From Naxos
4Friday 05 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Still meandering our way through the Greek islands, and loving all the colourful Bougainvillea everywhere… when I suddenly spotted something of a different colour 🙂 …
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Flower Friday – Naxos Backstreets
6Friday 28 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
On another Greek island, Naxos, we again found narrow backstreet’s to explore, camera in hand of course.… . . . . .
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Flower Friday – More Syros Colour
3Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
More street shots from the Greek island of Syros, the capital of the Cyclades. On every street, at every corner you …
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Flower Friday – Syros In Bloom
7Friday 14 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another visit to the Greek islands; this time it’s Syros, the capital of the Cyclades. The abundance of colour catches …
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Flower Friday – Morning Glory
7Friday 07 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This was the view as I looked up from my book this past summer, whilst lazing on the balcony of …
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Flower Friday – Greek Spike
3Friday 31 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Here’s a spikey wee thing I spotted in the grounds of the castle on the Greek island of Kos – …
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Flower Friday – Two Roses
7Friday 24 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Two roses Two shapes Two colours Different, but equally enjoyable . .
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Flower Friday – Ornamental Pond
11Friday 17 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This is another photo taken a few years back by Granny Spike, a.k.a. Uncle Spike’s mum 🙂 The pond was dug …
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Flower Friday – Summer Colour Mk II
1Friday 10 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Another simple spot of colour this summer
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Flower Friday – Summer Colour Mk I
8Friday 03 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
A simple spot of colour this summer
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Flower Friday – Twin Colours
1Friday 26 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One bush, dual colours… . .
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Flower Friday – Bottlebrush
5Friday 19 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Back during our spring sunshine, but before the summer heat… .
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Flower Friday – Courgette
8Friday 12 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
From earlier in the summer One of our courgette plants in flower… . .
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Flower Friday – Miss Lily
5Friday 05 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One of our home-grown favourites, flowering on/off all summer long…
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Flower Friday – Seven Months a Year
11Friday 29 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday – Vibrant Red
8Friday 22 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday – Seaside Roses
Leave a commentFriday 15 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday – Summer Rose
1Friday 08 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Sometimes we get surprises even in summer… .
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Flower Friday – Border Colour
6Friday 01 August, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: “Stamen”
7Monday 28 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . A how I wish I had a tripod… …
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Flower Friday – Summer Softness
2Friday 25 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: “Fresh Every Morning”
10Monday 21 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . These little beauties last only a day… . …
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Flower Friday – From Hampshire
13Friday 18 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
An old foto of the garden of one of the houses I grew up in 🙂 .
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Flower Friday – Spikey Stuff
3Friday 11 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Spikey flower from Uncle Spike… .
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Flower Friday on 4th July!
4Friday 04 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Special Fourth of July version today . A bit of red . White . & blue . Happy 4th July!! …
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Flower Friday
7Friday 27 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Pink and perfect… . Flowering through from April to October 🙂 . .
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Flower Friday – Oleander
5Friday 20 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Oleander grows in these mountains like there’s no tomorrow… . We only have pink in our garden, but white and red …
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Flower Friday
6Friday 13 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Although these plants die back to near enough nothing over winter, once they get going in spring, they show off …
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Flower Friday
8Friday 06 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Yellow Rose of Turkey (?)
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Flower Friday
5Friday 30 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Not from our garden this time; just something I spotted when out and about 🙂 .
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Flower Friday
3Friday 23 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Wonderful Weeds .
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Flowering Wild Onions
16Thursday 22 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Nature provides simple beauty The flower of a wild onion . Majestic and strong . . .
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Flower Friday
Leave a commentFriday 16 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Warming up, but these babies love the sun .
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Mini Ground Roses
19Saturday 10 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Three years ago we bought a few rose plants, not many, just 20 or so to get us started. Since …
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