We have a plant in the garden which I bought a few years ago. I have long since forgotten what it's called. (Maybe a reader can enlighten me?) It has beautiful cascading white flowers at this time of year, and when I am out in the garden in the evening, when it is almost dark, it appears to glow luminously. The effect is stunning.
When I took this picture the flash didn't work for some reason, so it turned out unexpectedly well. 
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I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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A Japanese friend told me the name in Japanese, and I looked it up:
http://tinyurl.com/8osnt (in Japanese, but with great pictures)
http://www.floridata.com/ref/s/spir_can.cfm
(In English where they note, embarrassingly, that it 'thrives on neglect', and also that they prefer sun. Ours is in the shade most of the time and is certainly neglected.)
It is Spiraea cantoniensis, with the common names of Reeves' spirea, double bridal wreath, and double Reeves.
There is also one with a larger flower, called Oodemari (http://tinyurl.com/8qmtr)
'Temari' actually refers to these hand-made balls: http://www.allesoverballen.com/engels/TEMARI.html
'Oo' means large, and 'ko' means small. But the latin names are different, which means (I suppose) that they're not actually the same sort of plant...?
They look beautiful! Are they fragrant, too?
http://pimme.blog-city.com
No scent (that I've noticed). It's probably just as well, though - I have roses and honeysuckle blooming very soon and overlapping, and it could get a bit overwhelming!
Funny... I can't see the sail boat...
I had to cringe when I saw your photo. Yep, I know those flowers all to well. I am so allergic to them that it's scary!
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