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nancy
valued helper
Utah, USA
Wild flowers of North America19 Mar '07 4:39 am
Hello, I'm sorry it has been a long time since I posted. The reason was that my internet was too slow to upload picutures. I finally have faster internet, but now it is late winter here and, except for some cyclamens and rock garden irises, my garden is pretty barren.
I decided to share some wild flowers I saw at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, USA. Crater Lake is a lake inside a volcano crater, like Lake Taupo in New Zealand. We came to see the Lake but the wild flowers were a very pleasant surprise. Enjoy!
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Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Welcome back19 Mar '07 4:58 am
Hi Nancy, good to see you back again. Thanks for the lovely wildflower photos. I think Oregon is one of my favorite states even though I have only been there once. If I ever decided to move somewhere other than where I live now, I think Oregon would be a strong contender. Of course, I haven't been to Utah, so you never know.
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Penstemons19 Mar '07 7:13 pm
Hi, Nancy;
Those were lovely pictures of wildflowers; here are a couple that I took in the southern interior of B.C. a couple of years ago. I'm posting them so we can compare the different kinds of penstemons that you and I saw. What were those yellow flowers that you had posted; are they another kind of penstemon, or are they some kind of gentian?
Cheers!
gordonf
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Here's a close-up of the penstemons in the following picture.
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Here's a picture of clumps of penstemons growing among sagebrush bushes beside the road.
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These penstemons were growing beside the road near a town called Lillooet.
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Here's what the countryside looks like above where I took these penstemon pictures - very hot and dry!!
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Anna
Gone to seed
Hamilton, New Zealand
21 Mar '07 11:55 am
It seems amazing to see penstemons in the wild, but then logically they must have originated somewhere. 
They're beautiful.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
pentstemons21 Mar '07 12:49 pm
I love pentstemons too ,and it is fascinating to see them in their natural state- especially the mountain one ! Thank you for the photos I wonder if the news of the central North Island volcano spilling over(lahar) made overseas news .Everyone was waiting for it to go ,but it was spectacular when it happened -I can't believe that some brave/stupid folk want to climb up the very unstable side of the mountain to have a look.
Dixie
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Mount Ruapehu taken from the main NI highway ,which was closed during the lahar ....
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Oops!21 Mar '07 4:30 pm
Well, in another post, I mentioned Dixie as living in the States! I guess THAT was wrong, eh? 
Anyway, Dixie - I, for one, hadn't heard about the volcanic eruption that you mentioned. I'm glad you brought me up to date about it, and I had never before heard the technical term (lahar, was it?) before. That was a great picture of it! I hope it didn't endanger any homes!
Please keep us posted!
-gordonf
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