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An upright herbaceous perennial to about 80cm, producing airy spires of delicate white flowers with long white stamens, opening from pink buds over a long period from late spring to early autumn. This variety might be Whirling Butterflies.
Playing around with the colors palette in PSE tonight. Wouldn't it be fun if ferns really looked like this?! The shade garden would be so colorful! :)
Cross Plains State Park (Undeveloped), Dane County, Wisconsin. In contrast to the Pale Purple Coneflower, previously posted, the Purple Coneflower has much wider, more deeply colored petals.
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And these cornflowers are just gorgeous also. I understand these are the feral version, not the natives but they are still lovely
Another Oddment from my blog, Oddments & Curiosities:
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p.s. Exciting news: Oddments is featured today on Noah Scalin's 365 blog!
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Sun sets in our yard and on our peony flowers... They seem to enjoy the longer days and the dry heat.
How many guys have been captivated by someone doing some menial task, wanted to help relieve her boredom, and had no idea how to take the next step?
A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance.
The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from tiny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 100 metres in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.
The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed from Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).
Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.
Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in autumn.
From your friendly Swallowtail Garden Seeds catalog photographer. We hope you will enjoy our collection of botanical photographs and illustrations as much as we do.
Spent the weekend selling all kinds of chrysanthemums for All Saints Day here in Poland. In between loading, moving and displaying plants I managed to get a few quick shots off...very busy weekend as everyone here visits the grave of a loved one and places flowers in remembrance. Bonus points awarded for learning a lot of Polish in a very short time...serious crash course!
My inspiration comes from the mobiles and stabiles of Alexander Calder. You might call my poolside container garden "Calderscape".
Evergreen perennial, foliage turns purple-bronze in the winter. Pink blooms on spikes in early spring.
Perennial sunflower (Helianthus × laetiflorus Pers.), Worcester Friends Meeting House, 901 Pleasant Street, Newton Square District, Worcester, MA.
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We interrupt the Kodiak pictures for some yard pictures, mainly because today I saw my first Yellow-rumped Warbler of the season, which has returned for the fall and winter after having spent the breeding season further north. And, this White-breasted Nuthatch, which is a year-round resident in our yard, was kind enought to stop by for a photo session as well.