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Greetings to all my blogger friends and visitors! After a long absence during my surgery and convalescence, I am happy to be back in blogland! And with loads of pictures of different flowers and birds, too!
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The hospital I was in had a beautiful garden, which had flowers which are not usually seen in the tropics.
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Banks of red poppies gladden the heart.
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Pansies are some other flowers which I have tried to grow unsuccessfully.
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Petunias were a familiar sight, but there were other flowers whose names I did not know.
Now that I am back home in the tropics and the heat, I look at my shrivelled garden and long to put it right. Well, I should take it easy.