My mom has a patch of poppies in her side garden. I actually bought them about 12-15 years ago. I’ve only managed to see them in bloom a few times, so it was nice to finally visit there before the flowers were gone.
Tag: flora
Coral Bells
I’m trying to get my shit together to leave in the morning, so I don’t have much time, but I had to get a quick shot of my little coral bell blossoms. I was sure it wouldn’t bloom this year, since it was transplanted, but I guess it’s happy where here.
The columbine I transplanted last weekend is looking really good, too. It’s full of buds that will hopefully open soon.
Did I mention that folks here call peonies “PIE-nees”? Well, the coworker I got the coral bells from called them “cora BELLS.” With the stress on the second word. It took me a minute to figure out what she meant. Older folks here also say quarry with a long “a,” which makes my ears bleed a little bit.
Magenta
Azalea
Weigela
The flowers are frosted when you look at them close-up.
Star of Bethlehem
Peony
Folks around here call these “PIE-nees.” There were three different colors I could have dug up, but they tend to attract ants, so I decided to leave them. They’re awfully pretty, though.
Columbine
I love columbine. There are about a million different varieties of it, and they’re all delicate and beautiful. I got a nice, big start of this one, with a bunch of buds on it. I’m hoping that transplanting it won’t send it into shock, because I’d like to see it bloom.
Golden Ragwort
Sunlight and Shadows
This azalea bush belongs to one of my cat sitting clients. I was out in their back yard this morning, feeding the birds and cleaning out the birdbath, and stopped to take a few photos.
Garden
I went out to Owen County this afternoon, to dig up plants. I got several varieties of lilies and irises, as well as a couple of columbine plants. The weather folks are threatening us with rain tonight, so I came straight home and got them (the plants, not the weather folks) into the ground.
Hopefully, these’ll do better than the seeds I planted. It was just too cool this spring for them to sprout, and the ones that did got chomped on by bugs and, I suspect, the local wee woodland critters.
red paper boat 