… continued from previous post
Presenting to you even more flowers enjoying the sunshine. They were being visited by lots of bees, butterflies, and dragonflies. And other pollinators we didn’t notice, no doubt. We did have a south wind, a breeze actually, which made some of the flowers almost as difficult to photograph as the ever-in-motion birds.
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South winds jostle them —
Bumblebees come —
Hover — hesitate —
Drink, and are gone —
Butterflies pause
On their passage Cashmere —
I — softly plucking,
Present them here!
~ Emily Dickinson
(The Poems of Emily Dickinson, #98)
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Unlike Emily, I didn’t pluck any of the flowers, but have presented them to you by way of photographs instead. There is always something new (to me) growing at the botanical garden, and it’s also fun seeing the familiar plants and noticing how they keep changing with the circle of the seasons.
~ finis ~
I absolutely loved my three day camping trip at the botanical gardens. No mosquitoes, chiggers or seed ticks! Just Barbara’s plucking by photography doing no harm to your me around and Emily’s quote to set the mood.
My favorite exquisites:
pair of house finches
crossvine
fern shadow
wild azalea
lance-leaved trillium
Venus flytraps
Spanish lavender
white lady banks’ rose
Japanese jack-in-the-pulpit
highbush blueberry
I wonder what the scents would be like underneath the white lady banks’ roses. Lovely, I’m sure! Thank you so much!!
You’re welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed this bug-free excursion into the botanical garden! Like many hybrid roses the ‘white lady banks’ doesn’t have much of a scent, but, interestingly, it also has no thorns! The Japanese jack-in-the-pulpits surprised me because they are so much bigger than the common ones we had up north. The white spadix (Jack part) was huge and glowing white in the sunlight, compared to the small, often brown spadix I am used to. I couldn’t believe my eyes, they seemed like some kind of alien beings to me. I loved the wild azaleas and Spanish lavender, too.
Lovely images, Barbara. This garden has so much to offer, what a great resource for you!
Thank you, Eliza! I am very grateful to have this bountiful garden so close to home.
Ooo…those Jack-in-the-Pulpits are so exotic! Enjoyed the tour of the gardens, Barbara.
Exotic, indeed! I found their size and the white luminescence quite startling. So glad you enjoyed the tour, Anna.
Thanks so much for all the photos. Perfect!
You’re more than welcome, Edith! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed them.
What a lovely excursion, Barbara — thank you! I especially like the bluets, rain lily, and the dwarf iris in this batch. I appreciate learning about plants that we don’t have here (or maybe I just haven’t noticed them!) I can imagine the garden was filled with the humming of bees!
You’re so welcome, Debbie! The tiny bluets have been a favorite of mine since early childhood when my mother had them growing between the stones in her woodsy rock garden. She didn’t have any dwarf crested irises but I think they would have been great in that setting. I love the ones I keep seeing down here.
What a collection of flowers, all three posts, just the picture of loveliness Barbara! That white Lady Banks’ Rose was exquisite, no matter how you photographed it … far away or up close. The Trilliums in these three posts were very pretty as well. I think our botanical gardens pales in comparison to what you continue to show us, different each time – I’ll say it is because of our colder seasons, but these are natural specimens, not planted by humans.
The ‘white lady banks’ rose was very impressive and I’m glad I caught it in full bloom! I think our gardening hardiness zone is 7b compared to yours of 6b, so I imagine that does make a difference in what the botanical gardens can grow outside. I’m feeling my age photographing those trilliums. Just last spring I could squat down and take a picture of them at eye level then and stand back up on my own. This year I’m calling Tim over to give me a hand getting back up. Sigh.
The roses were gorgeous Barbara – you were lucky to catch them in full bloom. Our roses won’t be out until June, if not later at the rate we’re going here, although it got to 80 today, which was not normal. A few years ago all the hardiness zones were rezoned. I read that when I was still perusing Birds & Blooms and other sites for garden ideas – probably people were planting things based on the old guides and they died. That’s a substantial difference.
It surprises me you are not more limber since you took yoga for so long and now are doing tai chi. You are still more limber than me and I have to admit I wouldn’t attempt to squat because I would never get up again and I don’t have a “Tim” to help me. I can’t put anything in my bottom kitchen cupboards as I can’t kneel very well and I have to have a chair to get back up, so I only store things near the front. Sigh.
Funny you should mention the bottom kitchen cabinets. We just rearranged ours to accommodate our troubles bending over and kneeling down! And we just ordered a small dining table from IKEA to keep in the kitchen to put our grocery bags on when we get home from the store. We used to put them on the floor and bend over to take the items out and put them away. No more forward bends! I do try to keep up with the squats when loading and emptying the dishwasher, but usually have to pull myself up by hanging on to the counter.