Musings

A pretty and lovely day that I enjoyed (weeding). A cold spell is behind us, and a hot spell is coming.

Posted at 9:11 PM | Comments Off on Temp cycling

The pollen is here with the phlox. They both start with Ps, but not the same sound.

Posted at 9:24 PM | Comments Off on (S)pring progress

I think this cold snap is over as far as overnights below freezing, so this pair should make it.

Posted at 10:32 PM | Comments Off on Springing

I got it! Not a golden man statue, but a viola/violet photo.

Posted at 9:16 PM | Comments Off on Done

I swear that five days ago this plant didn’t even have buds…at least in a casual glance.

Posted at 8:53 PM | Comments Off on Flocks of phlox

We have to have caught up our rainfall deficit a bit the last few days. I got this basil cluster to plant and failed to do so before the deluge, but it might not have been any better off if I had.

Posted at 9:44 PM | Comments Off on Does anybody really know what time it is?

Pansies are a winter flower in these parts, and we’re coming to the end of pansy season.

BTW, I learned the other day of ensete/enset (Ensete ventricosum), which is the principal traditional starch food of Ethiopia (for 20 million folks) and neighboring lands across eastern Africa. It’s in the banana family, and it looks like a banana plant. And I had never heard of it.

Posted at 10:02 PM | Comments Off on Plant snippets

I do like the jagged edges and the silver tint of cardoon vegetation. Cardoons are Cynara cardunculus. Although today planted in this area as ornamentals, in colonial days they were planted for food…stems mostly I think, but perhaps also the buds.

Posted at 9:18 PM | Comments Off on Showy thistle

Lotsa rain overnight, and a variable day, including actual sunshine. This was when it was still overcast.

Posted at 10:18 PM | Comments Off on Lone daffy in taxus

As I did a bit of photo tweaking, I thought: harhar, I’m cropping the new crop of camellia buds.

Posted at 10:04 PM | Comments Off on Simple pleasure (ish)