Holiday in Hawaii #6
Garden Photography Challenge February: Monochrome
The gardens of Maui are lush. Every possible shade of green complements the brightly coloured tropical flowers. It’s joyful to behold.
In her February Garden Challenge, Jude asks for monochrome images, so they accentuate shape rather than colour. Tall coconut palms are spiky and angular.
The canopy and roots of the banyan tree spread to fill vast spaces.
This single thorny stem reaches out over the cliff top on Maui’s southern coast.
Can anyone identify this mystery plant?
The Eternal Traveller 
Because we are longing for some more rain, the lushness of the first photo is very appealing to me. 🙂
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The gardens were so green and lush. Rain makes all the difference.
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Monochrome does really accentuate shapes and makes the detail in your images really pop.
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Thanks Charlie.
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Great choices here Carol. Love the coconut palms especially and the last photo is just amazing!
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I still don’t know what plant it is but I like how it looks.
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Fantastic monochrome choices. Especially love that last photo.
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Thank you. I would like to find out what it is, and I have searched through Google images of Hawaiian plants but with no success so far.
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Botany is definitely something I have never mastered so I’m no help to you at all. But I’ll keep an eye out.
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Maybe someone will enlighten us.
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Glad to see you’re not letting the side down, Carol (as well as posting some lovely holiday memories 🙂 ). That last plant features in a couple of my Algarve posts because I love it, but I couldn’t name it for you. Great shot though, and converts well to mono.
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Thank you. I did wonder if it is a Century plant but it just doesn’t look exactly the same. The mystery continues.
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I thought it was a young specimen, but maybe not…. 🙂
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Beth and Joe posted about a century plant here. https://simpletravelourway.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/once-in-30-years-then-death/
It kind of looks like mine, but it’s very straight. The wind on the clifftop might have made mine curve like that.
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Not the one I’m thinking of at all- though very nice. 🙂 I’ll come back and have another look at yours shortly.
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Love the palms their shape is ideal for a monochrome image.
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Thanks. I like the circular and the spiky together.
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So do I…
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There were 2 together on my Almond Trail walk- not sure if you saw it? http://restlessjo.me/2016/02/15/jos-monday-walk-amendoeira-almond-trail/
They are upright and vigorous in my post but I have often seen them bent into the wind. I have some other photos but can’t remember where. Got the husband working on a name for you 🙂
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They are sort of the same, but different. The mystery deepens. Perhaps your husband will be able to solve the mystery for us.
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His best effort was a species of Yucca. 😦 I’ll keep after him! 🙂
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Great choices for the monochrome. Love the coconut palms. That last one is a mystery. What colour are the flowers, or are they just leaves?
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They were only leaves so no colour clues.
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Yes monochrome definitely emphasises texture and shape so well! I’m hopeless with identifying plants though-sorry! 😦
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Maybe someone will know!
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Your mystery plant reminds me of something I saw in a seaside garden in Cornwall. I took some bad photos of it, but didn’t get its name, annoyingly. I’ll have to get my thinking cap on.
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Forgot to say – lush is the perfect word for the garden in Maui!
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Everything was so green.
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I’m guessing your plant is the flowering stalk of what they call a “century plant” and is some sort of agave (a cactus like plant with pointy leaves sort of like an aloe, only harder, stiffer. They make tequila out of some species in Mexico…if that’s the plant!???
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The consensus is that it is probably a century plant. I wish I’d known that at the time. I would have taken a closer look.
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I’ve never seen one lean/bow like that. Usually they stand straight up.
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It was on the cliff top so perhaps it was shaped by the sea breezes.
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hmmmmm!
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I wouldn’t have a clue – but I love the photo!
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That was my thought too.
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Cool photos & what a lovely Travel!
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Thank you, Sophie.
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Love all your photos and posts about Hawaii!
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