Mary, Mary, quite contrary (with phloxes all in a row)

I have not been posting any garden pictures, because up until last week or so, there wasn't a lot to take pictures of. Native plants around here come out a bit later than all the silly annuals people buy at the hardware store, and my yard appears to be a bit later than most of the places I've been this season around here (including Longwood, which is a good distance north of us-- I'm guessing we're just on the cold side of the hill or something) so for a long time there wasn't anything out but the forsithia which failed to bloom on more than one branch, despite being cut back last year so it would be all new growth. (It had its chance. Now it's getting pulled out so I can put in something nicer.)

Now, of course, every time I take pictures something changes before I get as far as pulling them off my camera, so I have to take new ones. Ha.

Have a Jack-in-the-Pulpit.



Wildflower, native to the northeastern US (with a fair range around that, I think, though I couldn't tell you where the borders are.) This is one of the ones I'm always surprised other people haven't heard of, since they were all over the (wooded) back yard while I was growing up: this one is fairly small, as a happy plant can raise a flower head to about knee height, and the elegant purple striping inside the "pulpit" part of the flower is not universal. (yes, I see you trying to invade across the fence there, english ivy, and you can just go back where you came from...)

( Some other pictures, largely plant-related, but not too boring, I hope. )

Mary, Mary, quite contrary (with phloxes all in a row)

I have not been posting any garden pictures, because up until last week or so, there wasn't a lot to take pictures of. Native plants around here come out a bit later than all the silly annuals people buy at the hardware store, and my yard appears to be a bit later than most of the places I've been this season around here (including Longwood, which is a good distance north of us-- I'm guessing we're just on the cold side of the hill or something) so for a long time there wasn't anything out but the forsithia which failed to bloom on more than one branch, despite being cut back last year so it would be all new growth. (It had its chance. Now it's getting pulled out so I can put in something nicer.)

Now, of course, every time I take pictures something changes before I get as far as pulling them off my camera, so I have to take new ones. Ha.

Have a Jack-in-the-Pulpit.



Wildflower, native to the northeastern US (with a fair range around that, I think, though I couldn't tell you where the borders are.) This is one of the ones I'm always surprised other people haven't heard of, since they were all over the (wooded) back yard while I was growing up: this one is fairly small, as a happy plant can raise a flower head to about knee height, and the elegant purple striping inside the "pulpit" part of the flower is not universal. (yes, I see you trying to invade across the fence there, english ivy, and you can just go back where you came from...)

( Some other pictures, largely plant-related, but not too boring, I hope. )

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