Gold Hill Plant Farm

These postings will center around things that I encounter that are interesting, beautiful, and sometimes the spiritual connection between all these things. This blog is for myself, perhaps more than for you, the reader. It is to remind myself of the passage of time and reflect on the beauty and meaning of the days.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Butterfly Pea

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I see this lavender flowered pea blooming along roadsides everywhere these days. It winds among the weeds and grasses blooming in happ...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

White Ginger Lily

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Beginning in August every year, my white ginger lilies ( Hedychim coronarium) start a season of beauty and fragrance. I have them plant...

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Night Blooming Cereus Cactus

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I have several large Night Blooming Cereus cactus which I keep in the greenhouse through the winter. In the summer I set them outsi...

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Limenitis arthemis or Red Spotted Purple Butterfly

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I have seen a lot of these red spotted purple butterflies around in the last week or so. This one I found dead on the road as I was goi...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Inula helenium (elecampane)

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I don't know what I was expecting 3 summers ago when I planted the seed of Inula helenium, but it sure was not this. It's quit...

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Summer Hyacinth

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My Galtonia candicans (Summer Hyacinth) has just about finished blooming, but was in bloom for a long time. in the heat and high humidit...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Begonia

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This Rex Begonia is one that I originally got from my grandmother. In the 40 years since, I have propagated it many times.The typical pro...

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Crystal: I have spent my whole life gardening in the heart of the deep, hot, humid south. Somewhere in the distant past, I received 2 degrees from the local land grant college and my ears are still atuned to matters of science.My children are grown and gone from home, but my days are just as full as when they were young. Only the responsibilities change.

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