Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Plants sometimes offer us a chance to see a same-time time-lapse. Here are the petals just emerging from the flower-center.
And, here on the next plant, the petals have grown out already!
This musing brought to you by a stroll to the library.
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
I don’t remember seeing sweet peas in ATL before…so exciting. But most of the plant had moved beyond blooms and was festooned with pods.
This is some kind of yucca, I’m guessing a landscaping variant. The whole spike was in bloom, but not photogenic, so you just get a side branch.
The rain really had passed by the time I got going, and the plants looked so fresh and the air smelled fine, but the gardenia notes had temporarily disappeared.
Sunday, 15 May 2016
Superbly nice spring day, very cool, especially after temps up to the 80s earlier this week. That got Mr. Window-man fired up (I think the coolness was the trigger), and he opened windows here and there, and a nice breeze wafted through the house…bringing the lovely scent of the front-garden gardenias throughout all rooms.
Friday, 13 May 2016
I think of the “natural” color of a rose as light pink. However, strong colors like this red are fetching….
Thursday, 12 May 2016
The gardenias are blooming! [Sorry that you have to imagine its heavy scent.]
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
That’s a pairing I expect: shovels and water cooler. Despite the hand-tools, a backhoe (and its driver) were doing the work, and the guy with this truck was sitting in the right seat fondling his phone.
Those pointy-petaled dogwoods are out; the usual ones are long-gone.
And this is a bonus pretty….
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Ooops, not. Maybe it’s just an iris, and it IS Mother’s Day.
So, I was doing some simple cooking. And the cauliflower was purple. White at the base and purple at the…flower part. Nice contrast with the capers, no?
And, speaking of colorful, Thai curry à la Sammy and (Trader) Joe. With no fresh basil. And because of the recall, these are Danish peas. Of all things—Danish. Not merely organic….
Saturday, 7 May 2016
I have tried three mornings (when the sun penetrates to this plant) to shoot these blooms, and…meh. Yeah, it’s okay, but not more.
Friday, 6 May 2016
Here’s another early-season bloomer, the magnolia. Actually, the plant family is good-sized, and this is probably a M. grandiflora—cultivar a mystery…; if it is, the species is native to this area. Anyway, I find the white-white of the petals striking….
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
So, this azalea is almost dead. This is the only surviving branch, and it sports two blooms and a bud, and maybe there’ll be another, but this may be it it it. I was going to tear up the plant (it’s a miniature) over the winter, but got lazy I guess…anyway, it gets one more hurrah….
Meanwhile, the privet I don’t care about (borderline hate, but can you really hate a plant that doesn’t poison you?) is blooming!! and generally putting on a good show.