‘Spider surprise’ sounds like a horrible dish from a terrible restaurant

Posted on October 1, 2011 by theogeo

… but in reality it’s always a welcome addition to the scorched, dead-earth-looking yard in late summer/early fall.

Why I am not in charge of naming flowers

Posted on July 22, 2011 by theogeo

While hiking up Lookout Mountain last year, Nick Fowler and I for some reason started talking about black-eyed Susans and how they got their name. We pretty much settled on the only possibility that made sense to us at the time: That the black-eyed Susan was a flower insensitively and macabrely named for a domestic violence altercation of yore. That is not true, the internet tells me, and I am quite relieved.

Anyway, I have some sweet black-eyed Susans in the yard this year — another bright spot transplanted from Middle Tennessee to Memphis by @saraclark.

Tiny fireworks

Posted on June 20, 2011 by theogeo

Everyone say hello to the coneflowers that made it all the way from Nashville to Memphis via @saraclark. They are bustin’ out!

Gloomy Sunday flower porn

Posted on May 22, 2011 by theogeo

Because it’s pretty out there and it’s too grey on this page.

Ahhh, that’s better.

Day 101/365: What’s Blooming

Posted on April 14, 2011 by theogeo

My grandmother potted this for me last year and called it a bleeding heart. But it looks just like a columbine bloom, only it’s clumpy and grows much taller than my purple columbines. And the internet returns something much different when I search for “bleeding heart.” So I’m going to call it a columbine, at the risk of inciting grandmotherly rage.

What else is out there?

Snapdragons, I forget what it’s called.