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Eleusine coracana, Millet,

Uganda issued a series, named Food, of 14 stamps in 1975

Millet seems to be a very complicated subject and I only know it as food for budgies. However, Caroline Harbouri sings its praises in COMPROMISES in
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 90,
October 2017
She says how it grows by accident in her flower pots.

Not having a budgie, I invested in some millet seeds and added them to a pot at the back door, not remembering that it is a windy spot and subsequently the leaves were damaged. Here are a couple of photos of the crop.

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Autumn Landscape with Four Trees

Vincent Van Gogh

Nuenen; November 1885

Kroller- Muller Museum, Otterlo

The Netherlands postal service issued a series of 10 stamps featuring paintings by Vincent Van Gogh in 2003

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A stamp issued by the USSR in 1979

The stamp depicts a still life painted by Ivan Fomich Khrutsky in 1830 and named Flowers and Fruits

Information about
Ivan Fomich Khrutsky, Jan Chrucki 1810- 1855 can be found on the Internet

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The Royal Mail, UK, brought out a series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
The presentation pack is very colourful and the flowers depicted are all garden flowers.  The first stamp depicts the SWEET PEA
I happen to have photos on my computer of most of the 10 flowers in the series, each post will be very colourful.   

The photo is of a Sweet Pea flower, lathyrus odoratus, which I grew from seed provided by
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN SOCIETY seed exchange. 

Sweet pea is included in a list of climbing plants suitable for Mediterranean Gardens.
SOME CLIMBING PLANTS FOR THE MIDI, FRANCE
By Members of the Languedoc Branch.
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 56 April 2009

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
TULIP

A close up, which I have no recollection of taking, of a Tulip.
 
To learn a little about the history of Tulips and all about Greek tulips read
TULIPOMANIA –
 A PERSONAL DISCOVERY OF GREEK TULIPS
 by Lucinda Willan

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number110 October 2022

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.

SUNFLOWER
The Sunflowers, Helianthus, were for sale at the flower market in Thessalonica one May. Sunflowers are mentioned in

CONFESSIONS OF A NOVICE GARDENER IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
By Doris Stanger
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 101 July 2020

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
IRIS

The photo is of Iris germanica seen in the Quinta de los Molinos in Madrid.

Iris is mentioned in THESSALONIKI:
GARDENS AND PLANTS, OLD AND NEW.
by Eleni Athanasiadou who also drew the illustration on page 90.

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 109 July 2022
 

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
LILY
The first photo is of Crinum moorei  which I lifted off the ‘In Bloom Now at Sparoza’ section of
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN SOCIETY website.

The second photo is of Crinum x Powellii, Powell’s swamp lily, which I took in 1997, predigital camera days, in the Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid.

Crinum x powellii is mentioned in BULBS IN A WELSH GARDEN by Einion Hughes
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 31 January 2003

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.

FUCHSIA

Several photos of fuchsia plants, if I remember correctly, all taken in southern  England.

Fuchsias are mentioned in
A MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN IN CORFU
By Cali Doxiadis
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 98 October 2019
 

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
PEONY
I have several photos of Peonies taken in the Royal Botanic Garden Madrid this spring but none of them this pink. I am posting two photos of light pink peonies which people were, more or less, queuing up to take their photos.
PEONIES IN A DRY GARDEN by Eile Gibson is in
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 104 April 2021

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
NASTURTIUM

A photo of a Nasturtium plant running wild in a friend’s garden and a drawing by Matina Galani.

Nasturtium is mentioned in
 MY GARDEN JOURNEY by Ruma Chakravarti
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 109 July 2022

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
ROSE

Rosa ‘Scepter’d Isle’ in the garden of Westminster Abbey and a photo of a pink rose in the village of Ancient Corinth.
Roses are mentioned in many of the issues of
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN I chose to read

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROSE VARIETIES  by George Sfikas
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 34 October 2003

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The Royal Mail, UK brought out the series of stamps named FLOWERS in March 2023.
DAHLIA

A selection of photos of Dahlia flowers all from a rest stop  at Kalambaka.

Dahlias and a Valley of Dahlias is mentioned in
THE MAKSIMIR PARK – A WALK THROUGH TIME
By Danijela Kovacevic

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 68 April 2012

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Aristolochia littoralis    PATITO
The eighth stamp issued in the flower series by Argentina in 1983.
You can read some interesting information about this plant here
 
http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/19880http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/198800141.html0141.html

I posted this stamp to this thread in September 2018 but recently came across a couple of photos taken at the local plant nursery in September 2021.
I don't think there was a label attached to the plant 

Aristolochia littoralis is mentioned in
THE 2013 AGM: ATTICA
By Valerie Whittington
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 75 January 2014

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Myrtus communis, Myrtle
A stamp issued by Greece in 1979 depicting a gold wreath found at Vergina
I had seen all the gold found during the archaeological dig at Vergina in the Salonica Museum, and bought the postcard. Later the finds were transferred back to Vergina. The gold wreath representing leaves and flowers of Myrtle was found in the antechamber of the tomb of Philip II

In THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 20 April 2000
Sabina Rossini Oliva writes about THE MYRTLE 

Included in this post is a snap I took of Myrtle one June at the Ancient Agora, Athens