I would like to share the joy and fascination of plants in my garden.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Strelitzia flowers
I wasn't happy with the color of the flowers in the previous post so I thought I'd try again and capture the true color of these flowers. Commonly known as birds of paradise. (Don't forget to double click on pix).
it seems like you have something blooming pretty much year round
we can't do that up here with our short growing season at the top of the world, but there always is something to look at -- my crabapple tree, for example:
in spring, blossoms; in summer, fruit (deer visit every day); in autumn, vivid yellow leaves; and in winter, small, dried red fruit, stark black branches & new white snow -- year-round birds eat the dried fruit through the winter -- so our garden 'lives' even then
it seems
ReplyDeletelike you have
something blooming
pretty much year round
we can't do that up here with our short growing season at the top of the world, but there always is something to look at -- my crabapple tree, for example:
in spring, blossoms; in summer, fruit (deer visit every day); in autumn, vivid yellow leaves; and in winter, small, dried red fruit, stark black branches & new white snow -- year-round birds eat the dried fruit through the winter -- so our garden 'lives' even then
Winter Crabapples
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