Glitches again?
I don’t know what happened earlier today. For some reasons, I could not publish my post and when I opened another window and tried publishing it, only a third of it was published so I erased the whole thing because I could not even edit it. Sometimes, it is just so frustrating when you’ve done something you need lots of patience in the process to finish.
Orange is not exactly a favorite color but since time immemorial, I have loved things with the color orange. When I was done with my chemotherapy years ago, I blogged about this color (twice) and one of my friends honored me by wearing orange polo shirt to work. He sent me a picture with a small note attached to it.
Accordingly, “orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. It is the color of fall and harvest”.
What inspired me to blog about it today? I saw these lovely orange blooms of my Cassandra plants while I was pruning and weeding early this morning and I took shot of one cluster of flowers. A vibrant and fiery orange bloom.
Sometimes I wish I could grow one color of blooms in my garden. I specially love white. It’s a good thing I have some of them but I miss my Gardenia bush. I don’t know if it is a coincidence again (something happened last week that made me smile and I asked my friend on FB if it was a coincidence. Wilma, you know about this, right?). A friend, a mother of one of Nissa’s best friends sent me a picture of a lovely white flower and she thought I could identify it but it was the first time that I saw it. She said that they grow plants with scented flowers in the garden because her Mom likes them. Gosh, how did she know I was also thinking of my Gardenia? All I have now by way of scents and smell are my Kamuning plant and the flowers of our two calamansi trees. She told that she would plant some cuttings of their Gardenia and will give me one. Wow! Dreaming of those heady scents again.
And I told my friend I remember him while doing this blog then he said that he remember that time very well and will have his orange phase again soon.
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Well worth persevering with
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Hi Derrick, thanks!
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We have some large orange tulips in a flower bed. But this year they didn’t flourish. I think it was because the early summer was too hot for a change.
This is what they usually look like.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lovely shade of orange. I’ve completely forgotten that you have them in your yard. Thanks for showing them again.
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Gardenias were favorites of my mother. She’d cut a bloom and insert the stem in a little vase with a pin on the back. She wore it all day with that scent close to her nose.
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Mom’s favorite too. We used to have them lined up at our old house in the province.
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How precious that our mothers love/loved gardenias- it was my mama’s favorite flower, too. We tried planting several bushes in our yard a few years ago, but a frigid winter did them in. 🍃✨🍃
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One day, I’ll have it again in my garden Virginia….promise!
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i love gardenias! 🙂
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That’s nice Wilma, I think we all love those white flowers with heady scents.
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Gardenias have a heavenly scent! I used to have a couple of them, but both just died. I’m not sure why. There are also some similar yet different fragrant flowers called Daphne. You might check if they can grow in your area. I might get one of those one day.
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I haven’t heard of Daphne yet until now Sabine. I think we don’t have it here.
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Daphnes are native to western China and apparently have close relatives in the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan. You’d like them, Arlene!
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How I wish we have that here.
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They look wonderful. I hope I could find them here.
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You would love the orange leaves right now around our house as the trees turn color.
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I love looking at pictures of Fall Elizabeth. There is a certain magic about the changing colors of the leaves, right?
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Absolutely. I like the way the leaves tell stories with their colors. It is similar to the ways the priest’s vestments send us messages with their colors.
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Which is the best among the seasons?
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I think it is a tie between spring and autumn. I never can make up my mind.
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