If you're like me, you take about a million photographs on holidays, only to file them away on the hard drive to be forgotten...
It's a shame, because when I do revisit my holiday snaps, not only do they transport me back to that far flung adventure, but they're a wonderful source of inspiration.
Like this past weekend, I spent a couple of hours soaking up the Winter Sun in the garden, weeding and planning some pre Spring planting. It reminded me of our last Northern Hemisphere Summer holiday and the gorgeous array of flowering colour we saw...
Here's a couple of the photos that have me itching to plant lots of pretty colour this spring...
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| sunflowers, sunflowers & more sunflowers - Marie Antoinette's farm, Versailles |
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| yellow in the shade of an apple tree - Cappadocia, Turkey |
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| gorgeous colour by the roadside - Cappadocia, Turkey |
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| growing wild in amongst a temple ruin - Hanoi, Vietnam |
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| hanging orchids for sale - Hue,Vietnam |
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| potted hot pink bougainvillea - Hoi An, Vietnam |
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| unbelievably pretty, if only I knew what it was..? - on the street in Budapest |
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| hundreds upon hundreds of festive red planter boxes - Hirmer Department Store, Munich |
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| rows of bright red cockscomb - Hanoi, Vietnam |
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| sort of related.. a masse of vintage floral still life paintings - window installation, Munich |
What will you be planting this spring..?
This is such a pretty post...I truly love it!
ReplyDeletebeautiful photos! Have you been to old these places? At the photo number 7 you have geranium peltatum. I have a pink one growing at my windowbox :)
ReplyDeleteThank you A & A!! I took these when we went off traveling for 6 months in 09... Happy days! And thanks for identifying the geranium too Alicia, it was so pretty! Might see if I can track one down in oz... xx
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