Gurdur

Flowers for Algernon, A rose for Ecclesiastes (*)

I really wanted to do this for May 01, but one thing and another prevented that. Plus I wanted to get it all finished off, but if I keep waiting I'll probably never get around to it, so I'll make a start now.

As some of you know, for the first time in my life I own a house, and with it I own a garden.
Therefore I started taking photos of the plants I myself have raised --- no cheating.
These flower pix are dedicated to various people on this board (why not ?).

Should you find it odd you do not yet appear on the list, give me time to find all the bloody pix and get them up here. I wish to match flower to (my perception of) person as much as possible, which means finding the right pic.
Nothing is implied by the order in which people and their flowers appear here. Like so much else in life, it's simply what I stumble over first in my never-ending searches to find things around my place.

This is my house; it has a large garden on the right-hand side of the pic (difficult to see from that angle). I have better pix of my house (especially after painting the fundament), but I still have to find them.

A small part of the garden
and
a butterfly I found hibernating in my cellar and I took out and placed on nectar-rich flowers as soon as it was warm in Spring (the butterfly was beginning to stir and might otherwise have starved to death).

One of my two favourite tulips, for AspenMama.
Like so many others of the flowers here, I forget the ssp. name --- I'll look up the names later.

One flower --- the Albert Einstein Daffodil --- for Scigirl, because of the name, and yet another flower (because the Einstein daffodil is a tad modest), a tulip, for Scigirl too.

And a subtle pink tulip for Bree.

And a very-far-from-subtle Amaryllis for Livius Drusus (I have a couple of better pix of that amaryllis, but I have to find them :banghead: _)

And of course for Linda who encouraged me so much with the gardening, a flower whose name sounds like a carronade --- the Imperial Orange Fritillary,
together with
another pic of the same flower.

A shy, exotic orchid for Jagged

A small mini-tulip, shy but intense for Soyin Milka (though I'm none too fond of the aspersions on my motives )

and another retiring but beautiful mini-tulip for freemonkey..

Tiddley om pom pom, I'll be adding to this all soon.

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(*) The title of the thread comes from two of my favourite SF novellas, both classics.

livius drusus

It's enchanting, Tim. House, walkway, garden, every last detail. I love my unsubtle bloom and just for the record, you are an astounding photographer.

Thank you.

Gurdur

Just for that, you get another flower dedicated to you --- also an amaryllis, but a different ssp., one which is very beautiful in a very subtle and camouflaged way.
After all, you do have that side to you.

Gurdur

Onwards we go, tiddley oompah oom.

Pescifish, for you I really wanted to do a sea-anemone --- I actually have some excellent photos of sea-anemones (and giant sea-clams with their mantles extruded), but however much they look like flowers, they ain't, and they contravene my self-appointed rule of only showing what I myself have raised from bottom upwards.

Therefore, Pescifish, you get as consolation but worthwhile in their own right
one of my favourite daffodils
as well as a
another small tulip all to yourself, though I hope to hell I haven't made a mistake here of confusing a crocus with a tulip.

Gurdur

----> Strawberry:

Sorry, but you'll have to wait a week or two till my strawberries come into bloom, I photo a blossom and then have it digitilized.

----> RevDahlia:
I hardly know you, but I suppose you deserve one just for your user-name --- but like Strawberry, you'll have to wait till my dahlias come into bloom.
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Let no-one speak of what Bazza McKenzie/Dame Edna Everage does with gladioli.
Hello da, alle Ihr s��e Beutelratten !

(very occasionally, something is actually even better in translation than in the original)

Gurdur

Another daffodil for Harumi

AspenMama

Thank you so much. It means a lot to me! What a beautiful house-- can we see inside? Or am I going to have to take up your offer of a visit?

Gurdur is a very talented photographer as well as an incredible glass sculptor. He is an accomplished artist.

Soyin Milka

Gurdur...

It's so pretty...
I'd call it a feast or a banquet for the eyes. You're definitely a man of many talents. Your house and garden are enchanting. Your pictures of flowers are not only gorgeous, I actually found them soothing to look at.

You're nothing but a gentleman.
Nothing I could say could convince anyone otherwise.
But even in jest, I'll never again question your motives.
I promise.

Soyin

Gurdur

Excellent.
BTW, I have some beautiful etchings.
Would you like to come upstairs to see my etchings ?

pescifish

Your house is beautiful and very inviting. I love the rock path in the garden. Your hard work has really paid off!

All of your flowers are gorgeous and I must commend you on the excellent macro photography. Thank you so much for my daffodil and tulip. I am so glad to get to see some photos!

It must be lovely to spend time out there, tending and enjoying the view.