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What a beautiful collage. !!! Great challenge. I can do this, now that I am back home from vacation... Now I need another vacation. SIGH!

Have to see what I've got !!

What fun!  :)

Have fun,  Jeff.

Man, if I were a bee, that's where I'd want to live!!

Thanks for creating a buzz, Jeff!

This is what it is all about!

You have such a pretty garden, Jeff.

Fields full of plantlife :)

I am glad that you have joined me - nice pic.

What a beautiful bee heaven, Jeff :-)  

And I like to see your expert working in your beautiful garden :-))

A lovely spring shot, 3DGuy :)

Welcome home, Helle!  Did you have a grand holiday?

Thank you Tara :-) OH yes, it was absolutely wonderful :-))) Hard but all worth the money :)

What a gorgeous honeysuckle this is. It is well worth posting indeed in your gallery..

I am not really back yet.  Have alot to do before I get back. 

Here's another plant ... bamboo from a neighbor's yard.

And nr.2

Sweet William!  Love it!

Ah, didn't know the name (I have approximately 0% botanical knowledge ).  The Dutch name is 'Duizendschoon', which I guess translates to something like 'a thousand beauty's'.

It certainly is a thousand beauties!  It's related to carnations and pinks, which are all dianthus.  :)

Oh sorry guys, some great work in here.

Good to see all the green fingers here!

Time for me to add the start of spring in my garden, a flower on an aloe.

Here is another succulent showing new growth in a friend's garden.

Quote - Glad to have you peek in, anyway!  :)  I'm so looking forward to getting over there.  Bill wants to take me to Germany, because he spent so much time there while he was in the Army, and of course we must get to Denmark as well!  :)  The Immortal Mandy just turned 16 last week, and she's in perfect health, which means we aren't buying plane tickets this week!  LOL!  I'll have to enjoy that area through your camera for a while longer.  I hope you took lots of pictures on your trip!

Here's another plant ... bamboo from a neighbor's yard.

OH yes, Tara, I took 1600 shots, but I can delete atleast half of them I am sure. Havent had time to go through them yet. It is going a bit slowly here. :)  WOW! so Mandy is 16. Happy Birthday to this little old lady :-)  Glad she is with good health. Well you wont regret a trip to Germany. That will be a fantastic experience. I can promise you that. Now that I have seen severel parts of Germany, I cannot understand, that so many German people are having vacation in Denmark. LOL!  Their country is en amazingly beautiful place. I hope you will let me know, when you will visit Denmark. Would be such fun to meat you both. :) 

I love bamboo. We had alot of them in the rowhouse, we lived in before we moved up here. The birds love them too. They are good to hide in :)

A lovelY flower in your second post, 3DGuy.

Ronnie, I love your raindrops on the leaf.!!

Clive I do love your aloe flower alot. Excellent shot.

And your other succulent is looking like such one we call paradise tree here. I have a large one on my terrace. Beautiful shot.

@ Helle - Of course we will let you know when we will visit Denmark, since you are the number one attraction of the country for us!  :)  You know, we drove around much of the United States from last September until May ... eight months we were gone ... and we came back here and said, "It's so beautiful here, we haven't seen anything more amazing in our entire trip.  Why did we ever leave?"  But!  We're getting ready to go again in a few weeks and do it again. LOL! 

Beautiful, Carl!  Nice to see you again!  :)

Thank you Tara! I've been very busy for most of this year with my Industrial/Commercial photography work that I have not had any time to go out and do the fun stuff.

A big thank you to Clive for picking a genre that meant that I could just go out into the garden and take a few pics!

I do have some time off coming up soon so I will endeavour to go out into my Yorkshire countryside and be posting again soon

To show of the furriness of the flower I sprayed water on to it with a fine spray-bottle to simulate when I have seen it in the morning dew (possibly a little too much though as you can see water droplets falling off from the bottom of the flower).

WOW so gorgeous flowers, Carl. Dont know the name of the last one though, sorry.

auntie waits patiently for the first week to be up so she can post two more pictures

:)

So is Helle Anker :)

This is White Meadowsweet.

I took this specifically for the challenge.  A fun twist. 

WOW! I really love the whit Meadowsweet flowers, Bakapo.

Pretty pear is just awesome, mbz2662

I really like the shadows of your plants, Tara, but the real thing is very lovely too. :)

This shot is taken yesterday with flash on my little tizzie.

Lovely!  Your new little Tizzy is wonderful,  I'm noticing more now when people are using them, and they're really quite excellent, aren't they?

Thanks Tara.  Yes, it is really full of possibilities, which are very easy to "pull" out of it. And it has an enormous ability to zoom on distance or for macro. I love it and I am very satisfied with it :-) I really found out how good it is on my Rhine tour. :) There, we had to zoom in on awesome castles on top of mountains far away etc. 

Here is a pic of the champion onion and leek grower - my friend John who has just produced this 12.4 pound onion which he thinks will break the world record.

I took this pic today in his garden.

GOSH!!!!!!!!! He has food for weeks in this, If he has the heart to cut it in pieses, that is. LOL!! !

new month again, love this challenge!

my first i have done some days ago at home, is my wisteria growing and growing...

Tara & Bill If you ever are in Germany, my home is near the border :-)

gosh, i could done the best potatoe / leek gratin ever with this enormous leek and onion!

absolut stunning Jeff!!!!

A wonderful 'love' knot Priska.