Saturday, July 12, 2008

garden porn

One of the sempervivum flowering on a long tall spike...


Pods... I looove seed pods! I covet, collect, squirrel away, forget and then upon rediscovering, cast about seed pods... obsessively. This one is Baptisia, a legume but nonedible... Yummy, but not ready to pick yet!

A Veronica, Speedwell, blooming purple with a yellow Cosmos and green "Envy" Zinnia in the background...



Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower, I picked up on a whim at the herb festival this spring. Never having encountered it before, I am sure I bought it purely for the name "Mimulus", it sounds very magical and the "cardinal" could only translate into a scarlet bloom...

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