A blog that used to chronicle my Philadelphia eating life, then life working on a sheep farm in the PNW, and now life in rural Virginia.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wildflowers
Yesterday my mother's friend invited us over for a quick walk through her wildflower garden. We accepted and we walked. I don't know the name of any of these flowers, but I don't mind.
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Oh wildflowers! Solomon's seal, maybe for the white ones, a tulip is in there, some phlox or giant bluets perhaps,an iris (state flower), the complex red ones elude me, not dutchman's breeches, not bleeding hearts ooooh it will come to me. In another post someday...
Cute haircut too (I am blending my stuff since the cybervaporizer like to vaporize 'em).
Ok I got up and risked the wrath of the cybervaporizer. The complex red flowers are wild columbine. The strange reddish plant from many posts ago may be a bellwort of some flavor.
A guide to wildflowers is wasted on me here, have only seen some mayapples this spring. Long long ago I would hike the trail along Thumpin' Dick holler at least four times in the spring to check out the flowers as they came in waves of color: first whites then yellows and pinks, then reds...So cool. Have a bit of wildflower envy goin' on...
Ok the book made me look harder. White flowers are not solomon's seal, no idea now, but the red star flower is a fire-pink. Your job is to find the lily-leaved twayblade. What a cool name. It is an orchid that grows in rocky woods, of which you got plenty over yonder, but maybe not this particular flower. But who could resist the name? Of course round-lobed liverleaf runs a close second...
Maybe the white is foamflower? I needed a project as you can see...Luckily for you the book I have is quite narrow. How awful for you if this were a fat tome!
Yesterday my mother's friend invited us over for a quick walk through her wildflower garden. We accepted and we walked. I don't know the name of any of these flowers, but I don't mind.
2 comments:
Oh wildflowers! Solomon's seal, maybe for the white ones, a tulip is in there, some phlox or giant bluets perhaps,an iris (state flower), the complex red ones elude me, not dutchman's breeches, not bleeding hearts ooooh it will come to me. In another post someday...
Cute haircut too (I am blending my stuff since the cybervaporizer like to vaporize 'em).
Ok I got up and risked the wrath of the cybervaporizer. The complex red flowers are wild columbine. The strange reddish plant from many posts ago may be a bellwort of some flavor.
A guide to wildflowers is wasted on me here, have only seen some mayapples this spring. Long long ago I would hike the trail along Thumpin' Dick holler at least four times in the spring to check out the flowers as they came in waves of color: first whites then yellows and pinks, then reds...So cool. Have a bit of wildflower envy goin' on...
Ok the book made me look harder. White flowers are not solomon's seal, no idea now, but the red star flower is a fire-pink. Your job is to find the lily-leaved twayblade. What a cool name. It is an orchid that grows in rocky woods, of which you got plenty over yonder, but maybe not this particular flower. But who could resist the name? Of course round-lobed liverleaf runs a close second...
Maybe the white is foamflower? I needed a project as you can see...Luckily for you the book I have is quite narrow. How awful for you if this were a fat tome!
Who you callin' a fat tome??
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