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Plant Pictures - Exotics [navbars/gallery.htm] I change the pictures and caption at the top of the home page every month - they're mostly taken in my garden or near where I live. Here's an archive of those pictures. They're all taken by myself with digital cameras - various types. Plants pictures to buy Exotics - Fan palm - I was laying on a sunbed (in the shade of course, I am English) on holiday in Egypt when taking a break from my book, I looked around and saw this helping to shade me from the sun. I love the nature-meets-abstract feeling of it. While I'd like to be able to grow these in my garden in Cambridgeshire, I'm not even going to bother trying as they wouldn't be half as good as they are here - far better to use the space for one of the hundred plants that will grow well here and I haven't got yet. Exotics - Bougainvillea - you'll often see these wonderful vines planted as ornamentals around the world in warmer climates. They are quite undemanding of conditions as long as it's not too cold. Some species can even stand it down to freezing point for short periods as long as the roots are fairly dry. They are a little unruly in habit, but can be trained quite well up walls and over arbours. Discovered in the jungles of South America by Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Exotics - Edible dates hanging from a date palm. usually dates hang close to the palm as in the next picture, but this particular bunch were a little way out. I like the surreal look of this picture as if they are suspended in space by cropping out the tree with the camera. Exotics - Date palm. When the palm has grown sufficiently large to start fruiting it throws out these large, and rather extravagant to the size of the plant, peduncles bearing the edible dates for which this palm is so valued. Plants pictures to buy