At my house, the water view is our little koi pond. At night, red, blue and purple flowers in the garden disappear. White flowers glow softly in moonlight. I've been adding more and more white flowers and choosing many which will scent the evening garden.
Brugmansia, or Angel Trumpet not only have beautiful flowers but an intoxicating scent.
Night blooming Jessamine isn't at all spectacular during the day, though it's a lovely shrub. At night the tiny white flowers give off a powerful jasmine like scent. Plant these at the periphery as they can be overpowering up close.
Use white Vinca (periwinkle) for sunnier spots and impatiens for shade. These annuals are perennials in Florida, self seeding. They are super easy to root by cuttings.
I made a little slide show of our moonflower opening at dusk.
These are just a few of many possible plant suggestions, and the ones I use in my Florida garden. For many more, check out Lia Leendertz' book The Twilight Garden.
Such a beautiful collection of photos, makes me homesick for Fla. where I lived for many years. In KWest some people from Bahamas & Cuba would plant Angel's Trumpet near their front door to guard the threshold from trouble. Nicely done blog!
That's a great idea! I've got a bunch of Angel Trumpet cuttings rooting now. I'm going to plant some by my front door. A little warding off of trouble can't hurt. I'm a transplant from New England to Florida. After 30 years here, I'm still thrilled by the plants I can grow here. I miss pussy-willows, lilac and lily-of-the-valley, though. Thank you for the kind comment, Robin.
It took me more time to make the written charted pattern for this bookmark than it did to knit it! I'm still learning how to use Apple's Pages. Just click on the link above for the pattern. It's free to anyone who's interested. I'm still pretty bad at making tassels. I think I may invest in one of those little tassel making tools that they sell at Joann's. I found the lace pattern for this in Barbara G. Walker's Charted Knitting Designs: a third treasury of knitting patterns . Here's the finished bookmark: From knitting From knitting Enjoy! This pretty little orchid opened this morning. With all the rain we've had, two of the three buds dropped, but at least I have one flower. This is Pot. Burana Beauty. From orchids
I'll have to knit one of these to keep for myself one day. I'm giving them all away. Here's a new lace bookmark design. I call it (actually, Wayne thought of the title) "Leaf me alone, I'm reading". We stopped by Fiber Art, Inc . last Saturday and I bought 3 more balls of Mini Mochi in different colorways. I've got enough now to knit 30 or so more bookmarks. The pattern for "Leaf me alone" is here . I'm accumulating quite an assortment of bookmarks of all kinds. The Ephemera Society of America posts an article on the history of bookmarks . Yet another collection. Add it to the dragons (I will post about them, eventually), orchids, skulls...can't leave out the knitting yarn, needles, and patterns (those seem to multiply like breeding rabbits!). I have bookmarks in two books I'm reading now: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four . ...
A while ago, I downloaded a free font program to chart knitting patterns called Knitting Symbols by CET V2.00 . I've run across a couple of lace patterns I really like and just finished a dishcloth pattern I found on Ravelry . It's called Elvish Leaves. The first time I started knitting it, I frogged it after 20 or so rows because I ended up with 45 stitches on my needle when I should have had 39! I need pictures. Charts speak to me. I can follow them. So I made one for this really nice lace pattern created by Kelley's Yarns . I hope it links correctly here. Please let me know if you cannot access the file. I'll make more of these cloths. It was really fun to knit. This link should take you to a pdf file for the chart. Updated document on 1/31/10 to correct row 7, which should be k3, purl 33, k3.
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