CFFC: My green post

• Manja Maksimovič

Green is my favourite colour. Let the greens from mostly Tuscany and Slovenia jump at you twenty-five times.

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I was so happy to see that Cee had chosen my last week’s Flowers post to be featured in her CFFC: Green Foliage post this week. And I was even happier to see her green photos and got to choose mine.

Green is my favourite colour and without it nothing would be the same. It’s June and lower Tuscany is already in its yellow phase by now, so it felt even better to go through my photos from last and this year to see which greens would jump out. There were too many, of course, so the best I could do was cut them down to the following neat 25.

They are in chronological order by month, starting with January 2020 and ending with May 2021 when I visited the three Tuscan gardens on the open-door day, but not every month is represented.

In the middle of the post there is the Slovenian section with nine photos, taken between June and August last year, the rest are from Tuscany and a few from Lazio. The summers are much greener over there than over here, but Tuscany is evergreen in winter. Let’s start with some January moss.

  • January 2020: Moss and leaves at Villa Lante in Bagnaia.
  • February 2020. Opposite our train station. This green wall often catches my sight.
  • March 2020: These come just in time when I need all these hearts.
  • April 2020: A patch of lawn that catches more humidity than the rest.
  • May 2020: A fig tree nearby.
  • June 2020: The last of Tuscany.
  • June 2020: Green green chard of home. Parents’ garden in Piran, Slovenia.
  • July 2020: Parents’ kitchen in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This kind of wilderness spells home.
  • Still in July, still in Ljubljana. This is the grass pattern from my childhood. Soft on feet but alert for bees.
  • Walking the dog in the summer just behind my parents’ house. It’s prettier than I remember.
  • This seems like a new growth.
  • Still in Ljubljana. Ornamental and good for the heat.
  • August 2020: Rain at our annual Ljubljana garden card tournament.
  • To the Julian Alps. Zelenci nature reserve is quite green all over.
  • Lake Jasna after a big rain.
  • Still August and back to Tuscany. We get rain too, just not so often.
  • October 2020. We found a friend while walking towards the waterfall Cascate del Salabrone near Farnese.
  • The stream below the waterfall.
  • The end of October 2020: A stroll among the eucalyptus trees. And it’s getting green again.
  • A hop to March 2021. I was not inspired to take many photos for four months.
  • April 2021: A nearby green wall. I keep taking its pictures, hoping for a good one.
  • Also in April. So green and the flowers have come too.
  • And finally, three from May 2021. Villa Cetinale gardens.
  • One more from Villa Cetinale. Are these in front alliums too?
  • Swiss chard for the end, my favourite leaf vegetable. Found at the gardens of Castello del Poggiarello.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Green foliage

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