Wordless Wednesday: Green Peeks from Sicily, Italy (Sicilia, Italia)
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| Tassel Hyacinth aka Muscari comosa or Leopoldia comosa. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) |
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| Possibly date palm—let me know if you can identify it. (Photo taken at Villa Romana del Casale.) |
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| One of many Cercis siliquastrum seen blooming in Sicily in April. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at the garden wall of Alexander Hardcastle’s home.) |
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| Lovely Bougainvillea. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at Alexander Hardcastle’s home.) |
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| Please don’t prune your Asparagus to look like this. (Photo taken in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento at Alexander Hardcastle’s home.) |
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| Unknown tree. (Photo taken at the cimitero in Termini Imerese.) |
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| More palm trees and lovely handmade pebble paving from the streets of Termini Imerese. (This was the home of my great-grandparents.) |
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| Trees in the city park in Termini Imerese. |
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| Lovely large Lantana along the street in Termini Imerese. |
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| Caster bean (Ricinus communis) plants grow wild along the roads in Sicily. |
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| Artichokes (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) growing along the road.) |
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| Borage (Borago officinalis) growing wild along the side of the road in Sicily. |
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| Wild Sedum growing along the roadside near Termini Imerese. |
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| Wild snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) growing in its native environs. My husband told me that in Italian they’re called “mouth of the lion”. He played a lot with these flowers as a boy. |
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| Not exactly sure of the plant, but I do recognize Sicilian ingenuity. If Dad gardened, this is how he’d stake his plants. |
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| Convolvulus tricolor growing wild in Sicily. |
Tags:
Antirrhinum, Asparagus, Borago, Bougainvillea, Cercis, Convolvulus, Cynara, Italian, Italy, Lantana, Leopoldia, Muscari, palms, Pinus, Ricinus, Sedum, Sicily
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