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Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008
Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008
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Best in show was awarded to Matthew Soper of Hampshire Carnivorous Plants and he was delighted.
"This is a very special year, not only because of this award at Tatton Park but it means we have won ten consecutive golds at Chelsea, ten at Hampton Court, ten at BBC Gardeners' World Live and now ten at Tatton Park and best in show. I couldn't be more pleased, it's fantastic!" Well done to Matthew. I couldn't mention the floral marquee again without letting you know how Medwyn Williams got on. Well, his gold medal record is as unblemished as his prize winning vegetables; another gold for Medwyn and an unbroken record. And to top it off the sun is shining! I'm really not used to this at a flower show, I might have to go and have a lie down. In the sun. With an ice cream perhaps... 
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Strelitzia reginae - Bird of paradise.
Exotic and very interesting flower. Have a look at the full size 1600x1200px photo to see the details of this "birds" head.
Bird of paradise is common in Philippine gardens - but mainly in higher regions like Baguio City.
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In album Beautiful tropical flowers - Tropical orchids
Small strawberry seeds on each berry. In garden centers you may find strawberry seeds - the very same also can be produced from any fresh strawberries. To grow plants from such tiny seeds is far more difficult than growing plants from strawberry runners. The seeds would be the choice to "import" strawberries from remote countries.
This photo concludes the small series about strawberries in the Philippine islands. Strawberries grow in a wide range of countries from Mediterranean climate to central or northern European climate as well as some mountain regions in India and US of course. Any cold subtropical climate to cold climate areas is suitable. The many different strawberry varieties may have their own preferences. Hence try different strawberry plants. Some bear fruits almost all year long, others have a short season of a few weeks only. The final criteria however always is the taste. Modern variety as so often are profit oriented. Thus modern strawberry varieties have large / huge fruits almost tasteless. Traditional strawberries are much smaller but delicious in taste. In Europe it is almost impossible to find any natural tasty strawberries left in commercial strawberry fields.
Here in the Philippine islands' Capital of strawberries - Trinidad - outside Baguio City, most of the strawberries still are of the natural tasty kind.
Hopefully by now you have a basic understanding of how much work is involved in the production of delicious strawberries - from your supermarket shelf. The field worker - mostly women - here in the Philippines earn anywhere between 3 to 5 US$ PER DAY for a long day of back aching work. A strawberry harvest season consumes hundreds of working hours for a small field and another many hundreds of working hours for field and plant care in the fields between harvest seasons.
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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