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Killing Flowers

on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Mbeya institute grows flowers decoratively!  One of those things you don't realize you like until it is no longer a landscaping feature.  Incidentally, the Kiswahili word for flower, ua (pl. maua) is the same as the verb meaning "to kill."


Roses!


Fuzzy red trees.



Banks of many colored flowers, it reminds me of 
azaleas back home.




Fuzzy purple bushes.





Daylily!  The boring kind, but still. 



These purple trees are everywhere.  They are a little past full bloom now, but they are still spectacular and I adore them. 



We are a garden
With plants and birdsong moving through us
Like rain.
~Rumi

3 comments:

  1. Black BeltOctober 16, 2012 at 2:44 PM

    Hooray for flowers! Your day lily doesn't look like a Stella d'Oro. It has more of a spider type shape. Like Chester Cyclone, only not that extreme.

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  2. artandhockeyOctober 16, 2012 at 5:05 PM

    Looks like lots of bougainvilleas, pointsettias.. and what are the pruple ones? Love purple.

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  3. ElishebaOctober 17, 2012 at 8:11 AM

    I like the purple too, but I am the wrong person to ask for flower identification. Purple is about as specific as I can get.

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