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Taken during this morning's walk, one of my favorite flowers currently in bloom in Cyprus gardens, Podranea Ricasoliana, the pink trumpet vine.

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What an exquisite bloom. Thank you @pavlosn
I think the posters on the fasting bloods thread are missing your pictures though!
 
nomoredonuts said:
As big as your hand.
Macrolepiota Procera. I dry them and use them as a base for Mushroom stock for soups or stews. We call them Shaggy Parasols.
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Look fantastic. Mushroom picking is an excellent excuse to get out walking in the countryside. As our own wet season is rather short here in Cyprus, so is the wild mushroom season. Even then one needs to be with someone that knows what he is doing and can identify what is safe to it and what will send you to hospital.

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Completely agree. Even though I've been doing this for years, (I dry boletes/ceps, pickle bluets, and grow my own ostrea edulis) I still carry a dog-eared mushroom book on foraging trips.
 
A nighttime walk provides an opportunity to take photographs of flowers I walked past under very different light conditions. Certainly the dark background makes for more dramatic results.





One kind of bugenvilea



And another.



Tecomaria Capensis







Podranea Ricasoliana

Jasmin is often planted by the front gate so that any visitors are greeted by its sweet delicate scent, always more intense at nights



Nobody could accuse the scent of Cestrum Nocturnum, the Queen of the Night, of being subtle. It is very intense and carries vast distances on the night breeze. Not for everyone perhaps but I have grown to love it.

 
i have a couple of these quite rare all pink grasshoppers living in my garden
 
Some photos from my visit to the Municipal garden in Nicosia yesterday to take part in an Eco festival.

























This garden small park is over 100 years old dating from colonial times when it was known by the name of Victoria Gardens. My own grandfather used to work here as a guard then.
 
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Contralto said:
wow, so beautiful. Is his color for real or is that a camera lens? Our cousins of him are electric green
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Hi, the colour is real, when they are like this it's a mutation, they don't usually live long because predators see them easy, but the two I've had here have been around for several months. Glad you enjoyed seeing it Jill
 
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