Garden Photos - Part 46

I like them since I saw them. Another was trumpet.

Interesting term, hoar frost. I'll restrain...

Be brave Jen... Just peek!! lol

Victor is the Holidays putting you on your best behavior??

Hee hee - don't want any coal in my stocking, Celeste. I've always loved passifloras, but never tried. They grow real tall, don't they?

You mean people actually get things OTHER than coal in their stockings??

Oil?

Yes, but a vine like morning glory type vine.

I wondered where you were Victor.
See yo picked up on the spelling.lol

Busy, busy these days!

hoar frost - economy must really be bad!

haha. Good one Bill

Victor my passiflora is fairly well behaved. I think since it's at the edge of it's hardiness. The part of it that is sheltered overhead stays evergreen for me. the other part of it losses it's leaves in Nov. or Dec. and then they come back again before most everything else.

Can it be grown well in a container?

They must---our friends who own the dairy & greenhouses in Plainfield, NH have had them in pots outside of roadside stand----but they probably put them in the GH for the winter.

My C Cactus's stood in mostly sun on the deck all summer.
I even left one plant out until October because a huge spider decided to nest in it.
When they were inside and in a shady spot they bothe popped out in an enormus number of blooms.
Bothe these plants are well over 20 years old.I will summer them under the trees next year. I cant believe full sun treatment was good for them.

Victor, here they do fine in pots. Outside or inside. But, there's usually only 2 or 3 varieties that overwinter well here. I rarely see any of the others grown outside here.

Great Cactus Jo Ann.

This is to a cute joke on hostas and Deer http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/931924/

the passiflors of mine that lives outside is Passiflora caerulea. the only other one that I see outside here is passiflora incarnata.

Thanks, Shelly and Robin. Cute cartoon!

Just popping in here to alert photographers that the full moon tonight is the brightest one (according to radio) for all of 2008. It's gorgeous!

Thanks Pirl. Wish the sky was clear!

Here Victor, I'll share....

Thanks, Sharon!! We are cloudy here, too :-(

no clouds, just brrrrrrr ccccold here.

My bluebird loved it though.

And notice, Victor, I stayed inside to get the bluebird shot, but went out in this brrrrr cold just so you could have a moon picture.

The things I sacrifice just to keep you from growling.

Thanks, Sharon. Your good karma flowed here and pushed the clouds away!

Ahhhh Victor....I envy you that camera. How beautiful.

Thank you. Actually that was taken with my point and shoot.

Rats! You just slapped my theory right down, since mine was point and shoot too. Oh well, you are the photographer, poor unrecognized in the calendar soul that you are....and an excellent one, inspite of what those others might say.

edited because I can't write a complete sentence....

This message was edited Dec 12, 2008 8:07 PM

Thank you, Sharon. 'Tis the season for forgiveness so I won't hold anything against those 'calendar people'!

Beautiful moon pics guys! I am so frustrated w/my new camera--Victor...care to share the settings you used for that pic? Here's a pic I took today of the field across the street. Notice I said field, not lake! I have no idea why you can't see the ducks and geese swimming in the water. Had the camera set on auto-scenery-zoom x 3--and other things I do not understand yet.

Sure. For moon shots, the main thing is to decrease the exposure. Most cameras have this setting adjustable. You will see it as 'EV'. It is 0 by default. You want to make it negative to decrease it. I set mine to (-1.0) for that photo. You may have play around with it a bit to get the right one for your camera and the brightness of the moon. After that you can try it on the auto setting or if that's not giving good shots, you may have to go to 'shutter priority' mode and try different exposure times. However, there is a decent chance that auto will work fine once you decrease the exposure. My shot was on auto. Good luck!

I can see the ducks in that shot.

Victor, did you use a tripod for the moon shot?

Karen

awesome shots

That is a crisp moon shot ..... very nice. I can see the duckies, too

Thanks Victor--but I see no EV setting--I have M-AV-TV-P-auto---then a lot of symbols I can't make out and haven't read about in the manual yet, which I am having difficulty making heads or tails of!--This stuff is hard! And I guess I am techno-challenged. How do you guys see the ducks? Do you have large screens? I'm on a laptop.

I saw the ducks. They're very small, though.

Karen

They are mere specs on my screen--for that matter, some of them were specs...I wiped them off the screen. LOL

No tripod, Karen. Just held it on the windowsill. Phoebe - it won't be on the main dial like the Auto, Manual, etc. You will have to look in the manual. Could be buried in a menu or on a different dial or button.

AH! Thanks Victor...I'll look for it.

Great moon shots---noticed how bright it was, & how COLD it was---Harvest Moons always look so warm---what's the name of this moon folks?

Last night was when the moon was the closest to the earth. BEV

Snow Moon.