Look who came flitting through the yard today, taking a rest here and there long enough for me to photostalk. I’m almost positive this little guy came around because of the hazy asters I recently planted out back. It’s not been a terribly butterfly-friendly atmosphere in the yard this year, what with the heat pretty much keeping all the plants in a constant state of non-blooming fatigue. I’m finding, though, that as the toothiest of…
My cannas would be at home on another planet, I’m sure of it.
Last year Tamara visited and brought me a tiny baby zebrina plant that Jack instantly devoured once my back was turned. Sad face. So I borrowed some zebrina from my mom’s garden and wisely did not bring it anywhere near that fat bastard of a cat. It is doing well.
$1 Walmart coleus. Score, even if it does only last a year. BONUS! My short but sassy stripey canna who has decided this is not her year to bloom.
The neighbor apparently isn’t fighting her portion of the trumpet vine as insanely as I am, and this little bough dropped over the fence and started blooming quite fetchingly. Which makes me so angry, given its pissy attitude. I hate. This. Vine.
There’s a jungle outside my window — one of creeping vines and reaching grass and, infuriatingly, browning hydrangeas. In my zest to kill that fucking trumpet creeper with paintbrush applications of undiluted Roundup, I think I accidentally treated some flowers I actually do like. I don’t know how; I was careful not to get the poison on anything I didn’t care to see die a miserable wilty death. And yet, for the past two weeks,…
The Rose of Sharon stick my mother gave to me that she’d ordered from the Arbor Day Foundation has been sitting in a pot of dirt, diligently watered for more than a month now, and it has finally sprung a tiny green leaf, just above the dirt. Huzzah. So sometimes sticks do turn into trees, if you leave them in dirt long enough. Heh. That is not at all true but it sounds like a…
This is a wildflower called spiderwort. I only know that because Lesleyest is basically my internet flower dictionary.
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