Category: garden

A bug’s life

2009-06-16
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Dill (mărar) in my garden, a bug having fun time with it…

A bug on my dill / Gindac pe marar

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A symphony of flavors

2009-06-15
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After seeing the awesome cherries before, aren’t you hungry yet? If not, here’s a fruity mix for you: strawberries, raspberries, sour cherries and a few mint leaves. All except the strawberries are from my garden, so they are natural, tasty, flavored and totally awesome (and even the strawberries are the best I had this year so far).

Fruit bonanza

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My sweet cherry pie…

2009-06-15
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OK, those are not regular cherries, they are sour cherries (Romanian: vișine) so they are not just sweet but sour and sweet and with a kick-ass flavor (harvested from my garden), making them even better for a cherry pie.

Sour cherries

Sour cherries

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Rose garden, my garden

2009-05-21
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Lately I posted a lot of rose photos (and will continue to do so). Why? because my garden (backyard and not only) is full of those flowers, see below:

Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.

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Eating: roses, strawberries…

2009-05-21
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A memory of my childhood: jam made of roses. Actually this is "dulceață" in Romanian, which is not the same as "gem"(jam), is something sweeter. You use the petals, boil them with lemon, sugar and some water and the result is a delicious sweet fruit preserve.

jam roses

Speaking about food produced by my garden, I had the first harvest of strawberries this year, they were a few and the photos are quite bad, but they are real strawberries, no chemicals, no nothing:

garden strawberry

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Honey: how it’s made

2009-05-19
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I can’t say which honey is the best, but the one made from Black Locust flowers (Romanian: salcim) is really good, with nice flavor and color. So here is how it’s made: in late spring/early summer the bees are collecting the pollen from the flowers and then making the sweet thing. Mmmm… pancakes with black locust honey, aren’t you mouth watering?

Making honey: Black locust / Facind mire: salcim

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Wake up and smell the roses

2009-05-15
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The benefits of a sunny morning after heavy rain are not only about taking close-up of snails but also the great opportunity to catch some beautiful rain drops on the petals of the roses in your garden.

Rose after the Rain

Rose after the Rain Rose after the Rain

Rose after the Rain

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Iris flowers

2009-05-13
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I find those iris flowers spectacular (photos taken in my garden):

Iris

And the rainy weather, bad for photography as it will keep you inside, can make miracles with those water drops:

Purple Iris After the Rain

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Orange flower

2009-05-04
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Too much girl portraits lately? How about interrupting for a flower close-up? Yes, it is also from my garden and I don’t know its name…

Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.

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Lilac Lucky Charms

2009-04-27
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A short pause from the beautiful girl portraits for some beautiful flowers: purple lilac.

When I was a kid, we used to vandalize the lilac flowers, searching for "lucky charms": flowers with a non-standard number of petals, anything else than 4, be it less or more.

Purple Lilac from my Garden

And it happens a lot to find such "lucky" lilac flowers, but I think the tree from my garden is a mutant or something, you can find flowers with 3, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 petals.

Purple Lilac from my Garden

And no, they are not lucky…

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Fruity blossom

2009-04-21
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A short pause from posting photos of beautiful and sometime nasty girls for some other beautiful things, like spring blossom. Today is all about fruits: apples, quince and strawberries. Yummmy….

I am not afraid that be bar would be raised too much, I have some really beautiful portraits still awaiting to be posted…

Apple blossom and the bee

Quince blossom / Gutui inflorit

Strawberry flowers in my garden

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Forget-me-not. Blue.

2009-04-08
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Blue Forget-me-not are one of my favourite flowers, no wonder I can’t stop my camera when viewing some…

Blue Forget-Me-Not / Nu-Ma-Uita Albastre

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Magnolias

2009-04-07
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Is relatively easy for me to shoot white magnolias, since there is (still) one in my garden, so I have a lot of shots with its flowers:

White Magnolia and More

But I like better the pink ones, so I had to search the city:

Pink Magnolia

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Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

2009-04-06
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What can I say more? Those are yoshiro cherry trees (染井吉野) in full blossom in the "Japanese Garden" from the Herastrau Park in Bucharest. Ah, there is something more to say: it was a warm day and the bees were flying from flower to flower. So Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

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Buds

2009-03-30
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We are into the astronomic spring already, the bulbs (like this magnolia from my garden) are ready to explode, they need probably one or more hot sunny days, not the cloudy today. But there is a good thing to that: I have not managed to uplaod al ths shots from yesterday in the park…

Buds in my garden, waiting for the spring

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