…if it fur is warm enough that the predicted colder than normal January doesn’t nip its buds.
I’m not exactly sure what plant this is, but its fuzzy flower buds caught my eye on a New Year’s Day walk. I loved the textures and the way the little fuzzy hairs caught the winter light.
I looked into it a bit last year and learned that my zygocactus, also known as schlumbergera, is a Thanksgiving or crab sort, not a Christmas cactus (hence it is about done blooming). Mine also tends to flower in spring, often around Easter, and sometimes again in summer. I guess it likes the bay window.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Macro Monday (officially on hiatus for the holidays).
Rosemary seems to bloom most of the year around here. Not sure why, since it is a Mediterranean plant. You’d think it would want more heat. Maybe the rain confuses it into thinking that it is always spring.
My first amaryllis bloom opened this morning. A welcome cheerful note on this gray day.
I got a group of three amaryllis for holiday cheer. Of course one of them has to be an over-achieving show-off… But in an amaryllis it’s cheerful and charming!
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday (I was sick on Monday) and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
When I opened the door this morning to take the dogs for a walk, the low angle of the sun was hitting my mums just so. They were glowing as if lit from within, the picture doesn’t really do them justice. without the sun they look closer to brown.
There’s a bit of chill in the air, but the sun is shining. Still beautiful, but starting to fade out for the season.
Verbena, maybe? These were in the desert beside a gas station in Arizona last spring. Between the wind and the puppy pulling on the leash it’s amazing that the photos are clear…and that I didn’t take a tumble.
Even when you walk the same route almost every day you sometimes see new things.
I did a double take when I saw these. I’ve never noticed them before. Looking closer I saw that they were the seed pods of canna lilies forming.
Canna lily’s seed pods look a bit like a peculiarly fuzzy bird head with a beak pointing out…or tiny bright green fuzzy pumpkins or…
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