Queen Anne ’s Lace:
They caught my eye because they look like giant snowflakes. Seeing as it ’s mid-July on Planet Georgia, I found the notion highly entertaining. I described them to my dad over the phone, and he nailed the ID for me (thanks Dad!). It’s actually a wild carrot, a European invasive, and the ancestor of our domestic carrots. According to Gardening When It Counts, we’ve only been breeding carrots for a few centuries so they’ll readily cross-pollinate with their wild ancestors. I’ll dig up a couple tomorrow for pictorial purposes.
Clover:
The clover is actually a couple weeks past its prime, like the blackberries. But there are still the occasional displays to add color to the roadside.
Most of the rest of these are just flower-weeds to me… if anyone wants to ID them, feel free!
This sort of resembles a butterfly bush, but no butterfly bush stays below 2 feet high and is flame red like this:
I’ve never seen this before; I figure the drought is keeping the grass low enough to let it show off.
I happened to catch a glimpse of this WTFlower, tucked behind a bush, about four feet off the ground and about three inches across. I had my iPhone with me at the time; by the time I got back with the Big Gun (aka Canon), it had closed up:
It’s funky enough that I wouldn’t mind having a few around the manor.
We actually got a little rain today, so I didn’t have to worry about watering anything. The kudzu was already washed and waxed:
Another invasive that thinks Planet Georgia is just, um, peachy.
Shortly afterwards, I started getting rained on myself, so I tucked the Big Gun in my shirt and stepped it up back toward the manor. Am I complaining about getting wet? No way! (Well, I would have been happier without having to worry about the camera, but whatever.) An interesting way to start a two-week vacation…
Enjoy your vaca, Farf! Hope it isn't filled with chicken house chores....lots of slackering and good food and long naps and long walks!
ReplyDeleteSounds pretty good - can I come??
Hi Beth! Sure, you can come, I'll fit you in my suitcase somehow. ;-) Plenty of slackering & long walks, maybe even a bicycle ride or three, not sure about the naps though.
ReplyDeleteI have a few chores lined up, that I'm about to stop putting off.
I believe the WTF flower is a passion flower (if it's growing on a vine-type plant). As far as I know, if it fruits you will have a passion fruit (edible & delicious).
ReplyDeleteHope your knee is better,
Susan in CO
Susan, I think you nailed it! Thanks much, and I'll have to go see if I can find some of those to put around the manor next year.
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