This Italian video is about Hanbury Botanical Gardens in Liguria, Italy. Unfortunately, when we came, we did not hear the music of this video. Also, we did not hear many birds. Maybe because it was not spring?
16 September 2013. After my description of going from the entrance of Hanbury Botanical Gardens in Italy to the sea, now about going back from the sea to the entrance; which is also the exit.
Close to the sea-coast, a rather noisy and big cicada on a big Pinus halepensis coniferous tree.
Signs indicate that wild boar have digged in some spots in the garden.
We don’t see them. We do see other mammals: two red squirrels play catch me if you can around a big tree.
Blackbirds.
A short-toed treecreeper climbs up a tree.
Then, one of the two smallest bird species of Europe: a firecrest.
This is a firecrest video. It takes some time for the camera to find this fast-moving little bird 🙂
Brugmansia plants. In South America, their homeland, hummingbirds pollinate them. Here in Italy, Agrius convolvuli moths do so.
A Passiflora flower.
A bit further is a part of the garden, exclusively for Australian plants. Are the fungi, growing among them, Australian as well? Apparently not, as these sulphur polypores are European and North American.
We arrive at a pond with goldfish. And with quite some Cumberland turtles and red-eared slider turtles.
Around a smaller pond below the turtle pond, a big female dragonfly: an emperor dragonfly.
As we walk along the pond near the villa again, a carp between the goldfish.
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What a delightful garden! Full of life and beauty.
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Indeed, Clanmother! It was originally founded by English people. Today, the University of Genoa manages it.
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Thank you for sharing – good for the heart and soul…
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Very nice photos!
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Thanks for your kind comment! There will be more photos from Italy on this blog 🙂
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Enjoyed the photos. I love the passifloras which actually do well in our Texas climate. Natalie
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Wikipedia says:
“Nine species of Passiflora are native to the USA, found from Ohio to the north, west to California and south to the Florida Keys.”
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Beautiful images 🙂
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Thank you!
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🙂
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I swear Italy must have the best soil in the entire world, there’s nothing there that is not 5 star gorgeous!!!
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Yes, there are many beautiful natural things, historical buildins, etc. in Italy. However, there is also pollution (eg, in Ventimiglia) and shooting of birds (though not at such a horrible level as Malta).
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Yes its sad,no matter where you go underneath all the beauty, sits all the evil and the ugly !!!
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At least in that botanical garden, people don’t shoot birds …
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