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Welcome to my World

You don't have to be an expert to love the travel life.  A little interest would do.

Mine started in the early days while growing up in the Caribbean.  

Today, my interest

continues in my frequent visits abroad, appreciating the best of city and country life,  from trees and plants to art  and other creative experiences.

 Many of the photographs here, come from some of these visits.  Others

come from my own collection of plants in London.  

Included  are a travelog of destinations, and artpics , of course.

 Enjoy the website.

VISITING JAPAN

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/            http://www.uk.jal.com/en/

http://travel.webshots.com/album/571128200xHGjya

 

HELP JAPAN  -  GIVE TO THE REDCROSS

As someone who visited Japan two years ago, I remember the society with kindness, and a great sense of order. Therefore, it is sad to see, and absorb the horrifying images of the last week earthquake/tsunami.

http://www.redcross.org.uk/japantsunami/?approachcode=68836_yahoojapan

 

Plants on Sale   ebay        http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/kaowinston

 

                   

         The beautiful  flower of the hylocereus undatus which can span up to thirty centimetres long

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Paris has a new museum:    Musee du quai Branly

nature centre                                                                 Uncarina

Plants to Grow

Name  the plants below.           (Answers Below)

Gardens to Go

Botanical gardens which are worth visiting. 

Gardens:  http://huntington.org/     http://www.rbgkew.org.uk    http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de

Teotihuacan and Meso-American Culture

http://winjamz.blogspot.com/

 On The Move:

Recently I returned from a trip to Trinidad and Tobago .   Below are some of the garden photographs taken from my tour around the islands.

 http://www.gotrinidadandtobago.com/home/home.php                            POUI

Plants to Grow

ORCHIDS  possess some of the most beautiful flowers in the world.  They also as a group constitute one of the largest species of plants.  At  a rough guess, they probably number above 60,000  species.  Although their origins are definitely from the wild, they have become probably one of the home's most decorative plants.  For people in the tropics they are still an easy hobby to maintain.  For the rest of us, growing orchids need a lot of patience, and of course we have to invent the light and temperature which are absolutely needed for their survival.  To grow  species of these plants is an interesting challenge.

Plants to Grow

MAMMILLARIAS

Easily one of the largest cactaceae group with over 250 species, mammallarias are very popular with the general public.   Although variable, most of these plants conform to being small and globular in appearance.  This usually makes them acceptable hobby plants.  Their ability to bloom early, those colourful rings of flowers, also add to their appeal.  They are found generally through tropical Americas, especially in Mexico and the southern US.

http://www.pallanca.it/

http://www.bcss.org.uk/index.html

                        Email: winjamz@gmail.com

About me

(aeonium  pereskia  crassula  euphorbia  sinningia)  (aloe  opuntia  mammallaria  pachypodium  uncarina)  (agave  chieridopsis  aloe  dasylirion  aeonium)

Created by  winston james      February 2010          All photos are copyrighted to WJ