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friday - lantana & solanum

katarina asks as whats ours leading ladies and figurants ..
here the sometimes very hot and sunny weather during summer
makes some flowers stop blooming, just to come back again in September.
but I have a few that doesn't care about the heat, the sun or the high humidity :)

two are the lantanas..
one is lantana camara, mine the one in simple yellow
it grows in my rock garden so well, never complaining if I forget to water.



the other one is even more beautiful, the lantana mondevidensis
it's leaves changes colour in autumn, turning in dark purple.




both of them are very perfumed, not the flowers much as their leaves.
here on the Garda Lake they are winterhard, is is not necessary to cover them even on the few days of snow we have :)

both was bought on the Cote D'Azur several years ago, and I'm so pleased they liked it here.


another very very
easygrowing, nevercompling, alwayshappy plant is the solanum crispum.
this one is a cutting, growing so big and beautiful under the Robina tree.


as it is so difficuolt making cuttings of the lantana, with the solanum crispum..
you just cut a small branch, you put in earth in the shade...and you wait..
the next spring you can plant it in the ground.

it will loose it's leaves in the winter, will look sooo miserable...
put as the tiepid spring sun comes back (here the spring starts in early March)
it will pop out it's new sprouts...and in no time..fill with purple, delicate flowers that will perfume in the wind ass you pass by.
so, plant near a place were you sit, realx or/and eat.


Thank you Katarina for hosting this beautiful weekly event:)
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No telegraph-Cima, G. Ref Barana-Prada - September 12, 2009

no-telegraph-prada


with variation:
cai cai 32 30

horse dropout

walking time: 6h.52min
time fooling around: 2h.30
km: 24.80km

Total climb: 2.100mt
Descending: 1.000mt
participants: mum, Monica, Elena, Brii
legendary! !
Location: Monte Baldo




this time soddisfatissima are ... eh eh .. even gasatissima are:)))

sure with all that running, we should be accustomed,
with all that we should turn right, turn
with all that we should be satisfied



we are turning the Monte Baldo far and wide ..
increasingly fascinated, always curious, always happier.

So what is so special about this tour right?
now we go on to telegraph a lot of times ...
we really need is to get the path n ° 66 .. that part of the path Bovi (Morocco) Cai No. 652 (the one that leads from the telegraph to the Madonna of the Snow) ..
for the rest we coming from all sides.



well ... this time we have organized themselves,
this time the paths we have chosen to do,
this time we evaluated as we do,
this time ... we're going alone!



around the idea of \u200b\u200bNo-Telegraph was Piero. Piero
but found the bike and so ...
he is doing miles and miles (but really a lot!) On the bike ..
as we continue grinding miles on foot.
it with him last year we got up to Pesina!
but this year we did not want to exaggerate (mica dobboiamo prove anything to anyone!)
and we wanted to get off to Prada.

all very organized ... pullaman by Garda Absence (APTV alive, on time for once!) Then ...
None - Alm Brione path with Cai N ° 30 ... I looked less steep Cai No. 654,


but I must say that it is really rather nice.
we took the second fork to the right (coming from Absence)
you forward in a thick forest called Wood Azzaga,
you climb to the steps of irregular stones, covered with dry leaves.
the air is still, the sun heats up, the humidity is sky high.
dripping with sweat after a few meters all four.
'll feel the winds to zigzag all over the woods ... property is you only hear
(continuous) of Brii friendly conversation (but how?? :)))) and thin sticks that beat rhythmically
pace.
to the 500m there is a scenic spot .. you see the deep cut of Long Valley, opposite the top
stands the San Zeno Altarpiece (1236mt) and as you can imagine the hermitage of San Benigno and Caro
and in front, in front of us must be the capital of the Merla.
finally towards 850mt you exit the woods ..

(look at the GPS and see that we have only 3!)
now looking up you can see the cut of the Valley of
Pre .. this time we do not want to walk through ...
we passed over this time, making the Horse of the dropout!

when we get to Hut Brione 942mt, we look back in .. we marvel at the beautiful place .. we see the pits full of nuts and ...
one of us puts his foot in the middle of a hornet's nest!
simoooo elena and running away screaming like two frenzied ..
that I am behind monica, I can not go away .. I'm afraid because I am allergic ..
anxious to see it full of wasps .. can not crush, can not run
I take off the stirrers, knowing that you pick are trouble .. but what can I do ..
mica left her there alone with the wasps?
bare hands to try and remove as much as possible .. only logical that I bite.
in a way, we can disperse.
monica was stung by two or more wasps .. .. I am the one that makes me inflate my hand in a moment.
mum wants me to do the cortisone
INJECTION (INJECTION she was always there, she is allergic to bees)
I say, which I do not need .. in fact the swelling has stopped in mid-hand.
has deflated in the space of three days, the itching and redness remained for more than a week.
allergy for those little critters is brutal!
retrospect we laughed all day, was to film ..
that all 4 screaming and shouting, Monica and I jumped the menavo ..
stuff on candid camera! :))))
and then in the boot, Monica finds a dead as a doornail!



luckily we are on Senter Cai No. 32, which leads the junction with the road-Prada
Porto in the middle of the beautiful valley of Nogare.

we are already well Zovel Hut, 980 m. .. and this path will prevent the piece of asphalt road
should you do if you follow the Senter No. 654.

do snack .. and the second we enter the valley of Nogare.
is a wonderful place, you feel like going back in the stone age ..
following the trail, even looks like a military road ..
slowly climb, climb.
C.ra we are close to Valloire ... and here the deviation for the dropouts.
1600mt .. now we are over the lake in the distance shines and makes us continually
turn and look back.

but the path of the dropout, it's dangerous and from now on .. we must be very careful.

before I go, I do not really like, I can not see what is happening to me behind ...
and if my friends can not help they need.
have always been at the bottom, I like it. Elena simooo
and suffer a little dizzy, and here the trail goes on the outside of
mountain, in some cases there is a string of steel rods to pass.
silently and very concentrated .. go ahead slowly.
we stop only when we are safe, and then we raise our eyes
we look around and admire the beauty of place.
at some point we see an opening ... we start ..
and the Rise of the dropout ...
one hand could be seen around the north of the lake ... on the other the south of the lake.
we stopped, we ate and rested a bit.
then off again ...
zig zag, always on, always on edge, every now and Senter was hiding among the mountain pines ..
turned sharply up the rocks, sometimes going down steep incline.

at some point before we see the two circles Ghiacciaio Telegraph ..

we go further, we turned a corner .. and in front of us ... the shelter!


elena whistles .. but as much as we see people .. you hear voices.
are corrado, Emanuele and Rachel ...
whole family of Helen, who came up with Prada to meet.
really good ... the son of Elena Emanuele has only 9 years old and elena 15 ..
want to make very good all the way up to the Telegraph!

the telegraph, I try to ask the recipe for the soup to Ms Franca for the third (or fourth?)
time .. she laughs ... and it gives me! ! :)))
I have to go back to try again :))))

while eat, we calculate the time that we have made.
We left at 8:35 and we got up at 14.05.
not bad! :)))
we stay up an hour later and is now back down ..
we take a bus from the last of the day ... ... actually the last of the season:)))
descend again into the valley below Ghiacciaio circles.

not resist ..
and do a book dell'aconitum napellus Charmful .. .. and I find now that I know who is also a relic of the Cenozoic Era (also called endemic terzari) survived the ice ages .. ..
intrigues me even more!
across the top of the valley of the Pre ...
here are those of rocks in some places there is even the snow ..
rhododendrons space faded at odds with fragrant mountain pines.

and following the steep path to climb up and we move in mugheto
above the valley of Nogare. below us the lake ... the sun makes the water sparkle ..




.. it is hard to see how bright it is.
heading towards us ... we Valtrovai below .. and then the well of Buse.
near the hut, Buse, mistake instead of going up the road .. .. Senter
seems to me that the path down the right one.
like last time, we have to cut the lawn:)
below, you take the dirt road / trail.
over on our left the crests of Coal Holy ... below us meadows, cows and the lake!

this path path ... No. 15 nature is beautiful!
very easy to do and very scenic.
you arrive (or part) from ref. Prada (ex mondini) that we now know very well!
when we got close to the refuge check the hours are 16:40 ..! In an hour we
the bus!
mum and I, we give up on direct route, running, laughing e. .. falling! :))))
plants drops below a steep path .. meet a lot of people that are going up ..
go to the ref. Chierego to spend the night, then the ridges malcesine until the next day.
move all .. I'm like saying that we are late we lose pullmaaaaaaaan .. ..
every now and then I "let out" that No, we come from ... :)))
obvious, then you have to stop and explain incasssare the compliments:)))

down at the bottom .. but propio 3 meters before a flight plan ... mum does!
but she is very pretty, is a swing and falls very nicely:)))
fotooo! it is natural! :)

see the bus parked in the works ... the other side of the road the driver
speaking with a gentleman ...
can not believe it!! and Beppo! driver friend of a thousand trips around the lake!
nooooooooooooooo but instead ... yes!

laughing, joking, ciacole (but are not yet ????) ciacole stove brings us down to San Zeno
where we have to change ... Coach!
from here, leads us Augusto! :)))

But not Mario is not ... we take a picture with him! :))

reached Costermano ... no, we arrived at the Costermano ..
bus stops between the two roundabouts on Affi-Castion ...
and the last piece to the parking lot we did on foot. :)))

great day! I thank my friends for adventure Helen, Monica and Simooo
the next!

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blooming friday - Ceratostigma plumbaginoides "bunge"

one of my favorite garden Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
plants is the "bungee", it comes very beacuse well
wherever you plant it.
in a pot or planted in the ground,
in sun or in shade it blooms and colour my windows
and my garden for several months.

and in the autumn it's fogliage become al purple and red.

to know all about it, please read here

here in a shadow dry place

here in fully sun and dry place


in a shadow and rich soiled place

shadow in place to pot

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