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| Dianthus superbus. |
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| Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum. |
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| Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum, as "whisk". |
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| Stylophorum lasiocarpum. |
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| Campanula punctata. |
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| The willow arbor gets a serious makeover. |
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| Where's the fire? Smoke tree, Cotinus, with Lychnis coronaria. |
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| Centaurea montana. |
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| Yucca filamentosa. |
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| Still working on the backbone of the garden. |
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| Iris pallida 'Variegata'. |
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| Rosa 'Sombreuil'. |
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| Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'. |
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| Lavandula stoechas. |
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| Papaver orientale. |
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| Paeonia. |
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| Tetrapanax papyrifer. |
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| Cytisus battandieri. (Thanks Danger Garden for the ID.) |
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| Paeonia tenuifolia. |
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| Unknown Syringa. |
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| Iberis sermpervirens. |
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| Clematis montana var. rubens superba. |
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| Vaccinium ovatum. |
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| Unknown Iris. |
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| Dicentra. |
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| Dutch Iris. |
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| Clematis 'Josephine'. |
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| The confused Christmas Cactus. |
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| Rosa 'Golden Showers'. |
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| Tassel Hyacinth aka Muscari comosa or Leopoldia comosa. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) |
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| Possibly date palm—let me know if you can identify it. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) |
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| One of many Cercis siliquastrum seen blooming in Sicily in April. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at the garden wall of Alexander Hardcastle's home.) |
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| Lovely Bougainvillea. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at Alexander Hardcastle's home.) |
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| Please don't prune your Asparagus to look like this. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at Alexander Hardcastle's home.) |
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| Unknown tree. (Photo taken at the cimitero in Termini Imerese.) |
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| More palm trees and lovely handmade pebble paving from the streets of Termini Imerese. (This was the home of my great-grandparents.) |
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| Trees in the city park in Termini Imerese. |
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| Lovely large Lantana along the street in Termini Imerese. |
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| Caster bean (Ricinus communis) plants grow wild along the roads in Sicily. |
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| Artichokes (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) growing along the road.) |
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| Borage (Borago officinalis) growing wild along the side of the road in Sicily. |
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| Wild Sedum growing along the roadside near Termini Imerese. |
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| Wild snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) growing in its native environs. My husband told me that in Italian they're called "mouth of the lion". He played a lot with these flowers as a boy. |
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| Not exactly sure of the plant, but I do recognize Sicilian ingenuity. If Dad gardened, this is how he'd stake his plants. |
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| Convolvulus tricolor growing wild in Sicily. |
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| Winter Loss = New Possibilities. |
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| Reviving the raised bed and kitchen garden. |
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| Some stratified seeds from this season. |
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| Awaiting the garden fence solution. |
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| Yellow Venetian glass vase. Venice on my mind. |
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| Seedlings in the basement. |
