Sunday, December 17, 2006

Favorite photos of 2006

It was a another good year in the garden and here are a few of my favorite photos from this year. In the spring, I thought these unfurling Fatsia japonica leaves looked pretty cool:

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I like this view of my back garden from one of the upstairs windows, taken in July:

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This unknown purple coleus has gotten a lot of comments (in fact most people miss the palm growing right behind it!):

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Here is a closeup of one of my gesneriad hybrids (a cross between two different forms of Seemannia purpurascens):

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And of course I have to include this one--I think Isabella was looking at a bird but it looks like she's smelling the begonias:

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