White and ample flower
Yellow flowers
beetography
Dalia flower
Crocus - the first flowers of sp ring 2008
Underlaying dry straw or grass to protect strawberries from fouling. Strawberries are easily fouling when nearing the dark red ripe stage. A rainy day wet soil from irrigation may cause strawberries to foul. Hence there is a need to keep the fruits away from soil, either with a layer of clean low grass or straw as practiced here in this photo.
As long as the strawberry is green or partially green, the fruits easily survives rain or wet condition. In the final 2-3 days before harvest however the strawberry turns into a a very fragile fruit.
The dark red ones are ready for harvest NOW, the other one with the greenish tip still needs another 2-3 days.
Strawberry fields need to be harvested every day during harvest season. One single day too late may either surrender a ripe fruit to snails or fouling.
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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Medinilla myriantha - Malaysian O rchid - Grape Flowers shrub widescreen wallpaper. This Malaysian orchid shrub is about 1,2 meter high and shows clearly why the Medinilla sometimes also is called Grape Flowers. The small pink flowers grow grape like and abundant.
For details of the small flowers - see previous photos.
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In album Beautiful tropical flowers - Tropical orchids
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Robert Nyman
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The back to back gardens are a unique feature of the flower show at Tatton Park and they are arranged in groups of four all over the showground, what I like about this is that as I walk around the show I stumble across a square of gardens and keep seeing ones I haven't seen before, also you can get a really good look at them because they're nicely spread out. Out of 27 back to back gardens at the show, five were awarded the coveted gold medal, best in show went to Reaseheath Alumni with '5 a day with hidden play' a garden dedicated to growing and eating plenty of fruit and veg.
'A garden for bees' (Gold) designed by Ness Botanic Gardens highlights the importance of our buzzy little friends. It's beautiful too and more than dispells the myth that wildlife gardening has to be wild and woolly. 'Butterfly Journey' (Silver-gilt) is another wildlife friendly garden at the show. 
It's packed with the sort of plants we could all try to grow more of, to attract native butterfly species into our gardens. I noticed a fair amount of black in the back to back gardens, 'The back to basics garden' uses black to dramatic effect as a backdrop and in the planting with two stunning Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy' and a generous sprinkling of Cosmos astrosanguineus, another garden which features this plant heavily is 'Urban retreat' (Silver) which also uses black as a backdrop but mixes acid greens through the dark flowers and foliage, a great combo. 
'Reflection' (Silver) uses colour but it's much more gentle here. The decking and fencing is stained a soft grey and is set off by touches of galvanised metal used as edging and in the form of poles used throughout the garden as a suggestion of a boundary. These double up as plant supports too, this is an idea I might well take away with me... 
A garden that addresses a very common problem is 'The scented walled garden' (Silver) and it speaks volumes that I had a good long look at the garden, admired it, made notes, took a photograph and still had not realised that it had been designed with wheelchair users in mind, it proves the point that a garden when well designed can fit a specific brief and be gorgeous too. Info from:
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