Wednesday 23 May 2012

My Favourite Croatian Foliage

Croatia is so beautiful.  (Have I already told you that?) To a Canadian gardening fanatic, everywhere we went, there were foliar favourites.  Some were because I had never seen them before.  Some were just because.

One favourite was definitely the palms.  There were many different cultivars of palms planted most often on properties by the sea.

And we all know you can't go wrong with a palm by the sea...




Or ivy clinging to a ruined castle wall....



Or olives on an olive tree, representatives of a rich harvest of oil to come...











Or kiwis ripening in the Mediterranean sun on a carport support....












Or ripe persimmons cloaked in magenta hoods on trees dipped in scarlet....





Or grapes dangling from a sun-kissed vine....



















Or fig leaves dazzling the eye in well-veined splendor...


Isn't Croatian foliage fantastic?



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