“Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast…”
~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Purple Delight
Lily Pad Reflections
Thorns, Silk Floss Tree
Hot Stuff
Heads Up
Cactus Blooms
Pretty In Pink
I Always Promised You
Bamboo Leaves Fallen
Cactus Patterns
Cactus Flower Refuge
Cactus World
Thank You
Jane Lurie Photography 
Beautiful photography. Well done
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Thank so much DIYGardens. I love photographing in the public gardens in SoCal.
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A stunning garden collection! Love the water stripes in ‘Lily Pad Reflections’ … it makes it different. ‘Head Up’ is a fun title if you think of the round cacti that way. I like the depth of field and what you included in ‘I Always Promised You’.
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Thank you, Denise. Love reading your thoughts. I liked the under reflections in the lily pad shot, too, which sets it apart from others I’ve shot. Happy you noticed. I am becoming obsessed with the cactus garden at the Huntington Gardens. When it cools off, I’m heading back. You would enjoy it.
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Just magnificent …. All of the photos!
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Thanks so much, Linda. The gardens are a wonderful escape. 😊
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I agreed with you that whole world is a Garden but human beings don’t pay attention to play their active role. They are not looking after their Garden properly.
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Hi Hassan, I couldn’t agree more. We must take better care of Mother Earth. 🌍💚
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Beautiful shots…… Great work!
Permit me to reblog?
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Thanks so much, Eni. Yes, of course. Appreciate you asking and happy you enjoyed! 🌸🙂
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Great 👍👌👍
I have posted my first blog today.
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Congratulations, Charul. Thanks. 🙂
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Amazing photos, as usual for you! Loved the lily pads and that first shot of cactus that look like little critters.
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Thank you, Ruth. I’m enamored with both lily pads and cacti. Pleased you enjoyed this series! 🙂
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Couldn’t agree more. Wonderful!
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Thank you, Savvy. Much appreciated! 🌼😊
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Can’t talk. GOBSMACKED by your gallery. 🙂
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Aw, thanks Frank! Glad you could write to let me know. 🙂 Fun to wander our local gardens.
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Beautiful garden 😍
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Thanks so much, Padma. 🙂
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Amazing!
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Thanks so much, IonianScribe. Happy you stopped by. 🙂
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You are welcome. It’s always a pleasure going through your catalogue of images. You have a great talent and observant eye. Thank you for sharing.
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I think I could sink right into the ‘Lily Pad Reflections’… there’s something there that made me draw a deep breath. Easy to see how the Lotus created it’s sense of meditation.
‘Heads Up’ made me chuckle. I’ve always enjoyed your sense of humor in choosing titles. I think that was one element (of many) that drew me to following you around!
We had a cactus garden when I lived in Utah. But I had never seen (or noticed) the initial shy peek of the blossoms. You have such a wonderful eye for detail and the talent to bring it to our attention.
That rose garden… I can almost get lost in the scent. Isn’t it wonderful, the dazzling colors that the cactus often brings?
Thank you for this bouquet. 💐
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Thanks very much, Gunta, as always for your lovely comments. There’s much to study at these gardens and we’ve enjoyed our “nature baths” wandering the different areas. Glad some of the captions make you smile and that you appreciate my sense of humor. 🙂 I’m happy that you are feeling what I felt making these images. Hope you are staying cool up there– I think you are. 🙂
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There’s been a few mornings that we’ve had to run the heat, but you probably experienced that same cooling fog before you moved. 🤗 Yay! for the nature baths. It’s the only way I know to preserve my so-called sanity.
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Agree!! 🌈
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Just beautiful! ✨👏
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Thank you very much, Fidéle. Happy you stopped by. 🙂
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The presentation through these wonderful photos is so good dear👌👍👍❤️
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Thanks very much, Ankita. 🙂 💕
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It must be a Cactus World. 🙂
We’ve the left the “Land of the 405.” Back in Colorado, but the horse show tour continues.
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Hi David, Cactus World feels as chaotic as the 405 😁. Hope you had a great show and a good time in So Cal. Good luck with your next shows and thanks for stopping by here! 🙂
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Indeed the whole world 🌍 is a garden
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So true, Arun. Thanks very much. 🌸🌻
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You are welcome. God bless you.
Regards 🙏🌞
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Dude. The heads up cactus shot and pattern were great! I enjoyed them all but something about those two… made me feel good. Made me stop and appreciate. Your storytelling through pictures is great:) Thumbs up Jane! Thanks for sharing!
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Hi Guat, You always make me smile. You are a cactus lover like me- an endless array of patterns and shapes in these cactus gardens. And I’m happy that you see the storytelling through images. Thanks very much! 🙂
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Gorgeous images Jane 👍🏻
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Thanks, Joe. It’s been a good season of gardens. 🙂
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The depth of color and the detail you captured provide awe and wonder. Thank you Jane – and I hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend.
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Thanks very much, Frank. Glad these spoke to you. Holiday was fun with family and friends. Hope yours was, too. 🙂
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Absolutely right for it all depends on how we fashion it to look like.
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Thank you so much, Joevic.
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Beautiful
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Thank you so much, Daisy. 🙂
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Nice photos ,the flowers 💐 are beautiful ,you feel them whispering Into your heart.
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How beautifully said, Mulirofaya. Thank you so much. 💕
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the colours are so vibrant, i particularly loved the lily pad reflections and the way colour worked in that one, and the tree below it. Whatever your subject or style of photography, your photos always blow me away Jane!
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Wow, thanks, Andy. That’s really nice to read. Water lilies was a great moment with the light and reflections. The underside looks like a tree but it’s the shadows of the petals reflected on the bottom of the pool. 🙂 Thanks very much!
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Awesome pictures of flower! I love the water lilies picture. Looks magical!
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Thanks so much, YC. I was very pleased with water lilies. The light was great that day. 🙂
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Beautiful images, Jane >>> Lily pad reflections and Cactus patterns really get to me! 🙂
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Thanks very much, Adrian. So glad you enjoyed and liked those in particular! 🙂
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Must share! HAPPY FOURTH JANE!!!!
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Thanks so much, Bob! 🙂
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Amazing
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Thank you so much, Anupama. 🙂
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Your welcome
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Pure beauty…always a pleasure 🌸happy weekending ☺️💫 smiles hedy
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Thanks so much, Hedy! 😊🌸🌈
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Wow!
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Thanks, MM! 🙂
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Jane these are all exquisite photos, especially Purple Delight and your Water Lily Reflections. Your never promised you photo caption is perfect. And your final shot of the hat is so charming. But Hot Stuff is awesome – it actually looks 3D to my failing eyes. Lovely post. Best, Babsje
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Hi Babsje, Pleased you enjoyed these- thank you. Very nice of you to let me know your reaction to those images. It’s not your eyes, I was quite happy with they way that Hot Stuff pops off the screen. Hope all is well with you. 🙂
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Hot Stuff Is definitely hot stuff. 😊
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💗🌸thanks!💗
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😊 😊 ❤ ❤
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What fun, Jane – I remember that Silk floss tree (unless they have more than one). They are impossible to ignore, right? The pond lily reflections are beautifully rendered. I love what you did with the cactus in “heads Up” – all those repeating shapes in different textures and colors, shown to their best advantage. Great composition in “Cactus Blooms” and what a wonderfully romantic image the rose with the out-of-focus statue in the background is. You know I love the fallen bamboo leaves – and I remember walking through that bamboo grove, too – a pleasure. The cactus patterns from overhead are terrific, as is the whole series. And the last photo is perfect, just perfect. Thank YOU.
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Hi Lynn, How lovely to read your reaction to these. Thanks very much. And such fun that you’ve been and that they bring back good photography memories. Glad I shot a lot this spring because it is sizzling hot right now. The Huntington just had a large Corpse Flower bloom- didn’t see it in person, sadly, because they were closed on the day it bloomed (what?) but I enjoyed the live feed. Pretty cool.
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Oh, I’ve never seen one in person! NYBG has had them too (NY Botanical Garden). I just found this on their website –
“NYBG received its first titan-arum from Sumatra in 1932. In May 1937, a flower bud appeared. This was the first titan-arum to flower in the Western Hemisphere, and the Conservatory was mobbed with visitors, reporters, and photographers. After a long wait, the plant finally bloomed on June 8. Its eight-foot spadix was the largest ever grown in cultivation.
A second specimen bloomed at NYBG on July 2, 1939. The Bronx Borough President commemorated the event by designating Amorphophallus titanum the official flower of the Bronx. (It was replaced by the more conventionally attractive daylily in 2006.)
Additional titan-arums reached full bloom here in 2016 and 2018.” And they had one in 2019.
Exciting! Plants are just so cool! 😉
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Very cool! 🙂Thanks!
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Catching up after being away. I like “Heads Up”. It looks like an underwater garden!
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Those look like some fearsome thorns!
✨🙏🕉🌱🌿🌳🌻💚🕊☯🐉✨
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They are, Graham. I wouldn’t attempt to climb a silk floss tree! Thanks for stopping by, and thanks again for your creation.
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Beautiful album! And that “Cactus Flower Refuge” is a stunner. Boy that Silk Floss tree looks like it would be challenging to climb. I’ve never seen one, but looked it up one time, because I kept seeing “kapok” life vests mentioned in WWII books.
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Thank you, Robert. Always happy when bees fly into a composition. That’s a fascinating fact- just looked up the vests and they are filled with milkweed and silk floss from Kapok trees which I now know is another name for the Silk Floss Tree. The floss was all over the ground. The thorns certainly keep animals (and humans) at bay. Great intel, Robert.
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Once again great photos👍👍👍
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Thanks very much, Detlef. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Another wonderful collection, with beautiful roses and some great cactus images – I especially like Heads Up 🙂
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Thank you, Sarah. I was so surprised by the light on the cacti in Heads Up. Happy you enjoyed that one especially. Much appreciated! 🙂
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I love fruit, veggies, flowers -and all of nature’s beautiful gifts- which you capture so magnificently – thanks so much for taking the time to share your artful treasures – always a delightful romp for my eyes & spirit . Cheers to you Jane ! 🥂DS
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Hi Diane, How lovely. So nice of you to visit and go through these. I’ve sure turned my attention to the wonderful gardens around Pasadena. Thank you so much! 🙂 🏵
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Jane, what a beautiful tribute to prickly things and to the individuals who care for them. Loved it.
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Thanks, Janie. It would be fun to visit the Huntington together….someday. 🙂
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I love every detail >>in>> your>> work>> Jane Lurie you heal the mind of beauty like no other kind LOL
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Thanks, Robin. Happy you found these soothing. 🌷🌻😄
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Beautiful picture Jane , it’s so amazing in every picture you take ✨✨!
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Thank you, Pikat. I work hard at it so I’m glad it shows. I really appreciate your visit. 😊🌺
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Some great garden wonders!
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Thanks, Sue. The Huntington Garden is a wonderful place to wander.
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Looks it!
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Awesome shots ! Have a nice weekend 🙂
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Thank you, Rudi. Hope you’re having a great week. 🙂
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Overwhelmingly beautiful!
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Thanks so much, Saloni. Nature is amazing! 🙂
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Fabulous collection, Jane 🤗💕
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Thanks, Jo. I’m glad I photographed a lot this spring…now it is too oppressive! Happy you like this set. 😊💕
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🤗💕
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Beautiful 🌹
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Thanks very much, Harshita. 🙂 🌷
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Just glorious Garden Wonders you have captured here, Jane.
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Thank you so much, Cornelia. Have you been to the Huntington?
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Hi Jan, you mean the Huntington Library Gardens?
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Yes!
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Have you been at the South Coast Botanical Garden in Palos Verdes? They have a butterfly house, it’s just magical. You have to make reservations.
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No, I haven’t. Thanks for the tip! I love butterfly houses.
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Fine set, Jane! Cacti are great and they don’t move in the wind.. 🙂 See you!
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Haha, so true, Harrie. Cacti can get you in other ways if you stray too close! 🙂 Thanks so much and I’m pleased you enjoyed them. See you! 🙂
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Amazing photos beautiful photography 👌🌷🙏the Cactus photo gorgeous and all photos 👍🏻🌺☘️😊
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Thanks very much, Thattamma. I am quite enamored by all the different types of cacti and succulents in California. Happy you enjoyed! 🌵🌷😊
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Really enjoyed 😍👍🏼 Thank you for sharing 🙏
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I don’t know, I have no words! I was trying to pick a favourite to highlight in this comment, but as I went ahead, I kept enjoying the next ones so thoroughly that I forgot about the previous ones! So beautiful, so delightful and so intricately planned! I always look forward to receiving the notifications from your blog! Your photos are so aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable!
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What a wonderful response, Garima. Thank you so much- that really makes my day! 😄🌻🌷
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And thank you! Tremendous images once again, with the cactus patterns a particular delight. Garden wonders indeed!
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Thanks so much, Adam! The diversity of plants in the gardens is amazing. You probably don’t see cacti much in your neck of the woods. Glad you enjoyed!
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Amazing shots!! These pictures are really beautiful🌻
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Thanks very much, Arnav. So glad you like them. I sure had fun making them. 🌷😊
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Gorgeous photos! A veritable visual feast.
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Thanks very much, Hien. I am really enjoying photographing in the gardens around Pasadena. Glad you enjoyed these. 😄🌸
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That thorny tree would be helpful for our gypsy moth problem!
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Hi Lisa, I suppose it would. I remember them from growing up in NJ. Thanks for stopping by. 😄🌺
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Lovely 🌱
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Thanks so much, Eco. 🌷
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Beautiful shots, Jane, per usual. The thorn tree is really interesting and I love the water lilies. Happy Fourth.
janet
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Thanks, Janet. It’s fun to visit the gardens representing different regions and the thorn tree is a stunner. Glad you enjoyed these! Hope you had a great fourth. 🙂
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Quiet but good
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Beautiful photos of these gorgeous flowers. I love summer! (Suzanne)
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Thanks, Suzanne. It’s a wonderful place to celebrate summer. Hope you are having a lovely one.
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Beautiful captures, Jane! “Heads Up” really got my attention with those colors and textures and “I always promised you” is lovely, from the caption to the composition. I’m sitting here imagining what the statue could be… very nice.
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Thank you, Ellen. The Huntington has a great diversity of gardens- the Rose Garden is amazing in full bloom and the cactus garden is quite amazing to see. And scattered about are lovely statues and rock gardens. So glad you enjoyed these. 🙂
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LOVE! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing these lovelies, Jane. x
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Thanks so much, Eliza. Coming from a master gardener, that means a lot. 🙂 Happy you enjoyed them.
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hi jane, wonderful and interesting selection of nature photographs that you show us here, i like it very much.
many greetings robert
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I’m pleased you like these, Robert. It’s such fun to stroll around these gardens and photograph. Thanks very much. 🌵🌹
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You prompted me to look up details about the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Based on The Secret Garden, I always thought of her as English, and although she did spend her early years in England, I just learned from Wikipedia that in the first decade of the 20th century she settled in Nassau County, New York, which is where I grew up. She died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
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I’m glad this spurred you on to do some research, Steve, and how serendipitous that she lived where you grew up! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Great work !
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Thanks so much, Bruce. Lots of wonderful gardens in the area. Happy you enjoyed. 🌹🥀
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Gardens can make you pulse race and your breathing increase just by their sheer beauty. Your photos are like that. I dislike cactus but that photo is my pick from this offering. It would make an excellent wall poster.
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Thanks, Amanda. Happy you enjoyed these- even the cacti. 😉 I think you may be referring to Cactus Patterns…
I love all the varieties of cacti in our local gardens. They are fascinating.
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Yes the cactus patterns was the one that caught my eye.
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Thank you! 🌵
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Always …………………………. A M A Z I N G !!!
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Thanks so much, Fabio! Wishing you a wonderful weekend. 😄
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