Friday Flower No. 14 (belated, again!)
Another dahlia. This is a much smaller one. It seems capable of holding itself upright.
Another dahlia. This is a much smaller one. It seems capable of holding itself upright.
My much anticipated dinner-plate dahlias opened up mere hours before I hit the road for Middle Tennessee Thursday. They were beautiful enough when I saw them, but when I returned home today (Sunday), I saw that more of them had opened up in my absence and had already collapsed under their own weight. They were splayed out like they’d fainted under the sun’s wilting rays. They are so gorgeous but so unable to support their…
My mom brought me a pot of these little orange flowers and they spent their first week here all wilty, as though they were exasperated and on some sort of floral fainting couch, but now they have perked up and seem to be doing fine. Only problem is I’m not sure what they are. They have long stems. Lazygardenweb, any help? Bonus flowers this week! A lily from my mom’s garden and a daisy (or…
This is a wildflower called spiderwort. I only know that because Lesleyest is basically my internet flower dictionary.
The lilies my mom transplanted for me finally bloomed! My camera can’t seem to handle bright red! I should figure out why! And fix it!
This here’s a blanket flower. I wish I had more money because if I had more money, I’d be using these things as ground cover.
In celebration of eight straight weeks of beauty, I present my hot-ass pink dianthus.
Yet another beautiful thing in my yard that I had absolutely nothing to do with. I have always been intimidated by roses, so how cool is it to know that if I just continue not killing this one, it will reappear every spring?
Okay, so, technically it’s a weed, but it worked just as hard to get there as everything else did. Maybe even harder.
I didn’t grow these springy beauts. They are what I like to refer to as “doghouse flowers.” And that’s all I’ll say about that.
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