libya

Tripoli flowers from apachenf ^Pro 85 days old

Libya is all over the news today thanks to the return of the Lockerbie bomber. I won't comment except to note that no-one in Libya believes that this ...

20,000 visitors and a strange flower - very strange - the carrion flower from apachenf ^Pro 86 days old

[ ... ] it is in Libya naturally.Have a look at this one in the pot of succulents that I posted yesterday. ou can see the two big buds which remind me of ...

Libya succs from apachenf ^Pro 87 days old

 This is more like what I expected to see - loads of succulents (though not arranged around a mini-pond). The place is dry - oh how dry iot is - maybe ...

Narcissus from apachenf ^Pro 88 days old

Strange time to be thinking and posting about Narcissus but I am doing so for three reasons. Firstly Van Meuwen sent out an email flyer about buying ...

Bourganvilleas and oleander in Tripoli from apachenf ^Pro 94 days old

[ ... ] use in Libya but if this is what heppens to the company camera after only 3 or 4 year I don't think that it is worth it. A decent camera would ...

Euphorbia? Poinsettia? from apachenf ^Pro 149 days old

[ ... ] here in Libya. When you look at the history of the poinsettia it is a very interesting story - see Wikipedia for an outline of it - ...

Libyan climbers from apachenf ^Pro 149 days old

[ ... ] plant in Libya that is so common in the Uk is ivy. It isn't so common in Grimsby - I don't remember seeing it at all except for a couple of the big ...

Libyan tree flowers from apachenf ^Pro 165 days old

now I was going to write a nice long blog tonight but I called home and heard all about the growing that I'm missing in Tipperty, the poppies, the heather, ...

Purple plant - what a colour from apachenf ^Pro 190 days old

Down tge street from me in Libya is a tree with purple flowers - beautiful purple flowers but it is behind a wall as are almost all the trees in Libya ...

Tobacco plant in Libya from apachenf ^Pro 191 days old

One of the wasteland shrubs here is a wild form of a tobacco relative - Nicotiana glauca also known as Tree Tobacco or Brazilian Tobacco. I'm not sure ...