tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30200114.post-18847678643433130152008-05-25T08:05:00.008+01:002008-05-25T08:26:31.487+01:00<a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRevEpY3I/AAAAAAAACFs/beI8SJrreuM/s1600-h/lupins1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRevEpY3I/AAAAAAAACFs/beI8SJrreuM/s320/lupins1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204210064133022578" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">The first thing I see when I come home, just peeking over the front wall, are the lupinus arboreus, the tree lupines. I plant them there to hide the unsightly wall.</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRW_EpY2I/AAAAAAAACFk/uaNmzKKzLHc/s1600-h/columbine2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRW_EpY2I/AAAAAAAACFk/uaNmzKKzLHc/s320/columbine2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204209930989036386" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Columbine are also in bloom, self seeding themselves here and there. The older ones are very tall this year.</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkREfEpY1I/AAAAAAAACFc/J518Q3nq59k/s1600-h/columbine3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkREfEpY1I/AAAAAAAACFc/J518Q3nq59k/s320/columbine3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204209613161456466" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkQlvEpY0I/AAAAAAAACFU/qv_HTY1A8Vo/s1600-h/columbine4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkQlvEpY0I/AAAAAAAACFU/qv_HTY1A8Vo/s320/columbine4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204209084880479042" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Although I have only pink ones seeding themselves, suddenly a purple-blue one has appeared. How lovely!<br /><br /></span><a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRn_EpY4I/AAAAAAAACF0/4vdm02TEoUA/s1600-h/lupins3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oK3p0At4H5g/SDkRn_EpY4I/AAAAAAAACF0/4vdm02TEoUA/s320/lupins3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204210223046812546" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Lupines in the morning light, the tops of the flowers glowing in the early sunlight.</span>Salix Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143805751885131535silviasalix@yahoo.co.uk