Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus.   .   A beautiful plant (botanically known as Schlumbergera or Zygocactus), the Christmas Cactus blooms at Christmas. The Christmas cactus is my favorite houseplant, they’re long-lived, rather easy plants to grow…With white flowers, pink or red …. but always very generous blooms, I like to collect this plant.   .                                          This is red, red Christmas …Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Blue Flowes

This flower, very special for color and form, is called “Tradescantia” a genus of 75 species of herbaceous perennial plants. Native to the New World they were introduced into Europe as ornamental plants in the seventeenth century.Very easy to grow in Italy is also known as “grass misery.” Very simple but very special!Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Jacaranda

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Central America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas.Several species are widely grown as ornamental plants throughout the subtropical regions of the world, valued for their intense flower displays.In my city, Cagliari (Italy), there are many examples of this remarkable plant . This is a plant that I photographed in full bloom in late May. Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved

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“A tulip….

Marianna Williamson says that“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower”I totally agree … it is a very simple and elegant flower. Each flower is unique … as people.Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved

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Quotes about butterflies …

 Five famous quotes about butterflies …

1.“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

2.”We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”(Carl Sagan).

3.”In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.” (Anton Chekhov)

4.”This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.” (Joseph Conrad).

5. The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.”(Paul Erlich).

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Reds

“Some women feel the need to act like they’re never scared, needy or hurt; like they’re as hardened as a man. I think that’s dishonest. It’s ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.” ( Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading )Photo ©BrendaC.

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