Archive for the 'flowers' Category

Yellow

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Clifford
on January 6, 2007
in Los Angeles, flowers and gardening
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yellow rose

The final rose or two before the big prune back, methinks. ‘Tis the season. These bushes are way taller than me now, and stretched a bit too thinly.

-cvj

Happy New Year!

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Clifford
on December 31, 2006
in asymptotia, flowers and gardening
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I’d like to wish a Happy and Successful New Year to all readers, whether you be regular, occasional or first time visitors! In a very short time, you’ve all helped make this blog into a pleasant, informative, and fun place to visit (certainly for me).

succulent starbursts

I’d hoped that this could be -and it has indeed become, with your help- a place that Continue reading ‘Happy New Year!’

Not Silver Bells

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Clifford
on December 25, 2006
in flowers and gardening
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Some Winter gifts from the garden:

bells flowers

-cvj

White

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Clifford
on December 16, 2006
in flowers and gardening
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Spotted in Griffith Park on a quick hike:

white

I’m thinking that this is a variety of bindweed (but see below*). I’m not sure though. Thoughts anyone? (Convolvulus sepium, that is.) Bindweed is a sort of wild morning glory, and this really Continue reading ‘White’

Red and Yellow

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Clifford
on December 8, 2006
in flowers and work
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Super long day of meeting after meeting. Call after call. Email after email. With that and all the rest… I’m super-stressed.

When I can, I try to make some meetings happen outside. Walk while conversing. That way I get to see things like this:

yellow and red

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Harvests Present and Future?

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Clifford
on September 6, 2006
in flowers, food and drink and gardening
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The corn has matured (they’re less full because of low volume of watering while I was away… but that’s ok… they’ll taste great!), and I’ve got a huge corgette/zucchini for my trouble. Must get around to harvesting the peas soon.

harvestharvestfuture harvest?

Upcoming…. that flower promises a tasty patty-pan squash in my future…..

-cvj

Blue Asymmetry

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Clifford
on August 27, 2006
in flowers and gardening
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blue flowers
I’ve temporarily forgotten the name of this beautiful flower. I’ll let you know when I recall it. [Update: Athena worked it out and reminded me....Scaveola, or fan flower] Its blue is more dramatic than the camera has captured. It nods somewhat more to purple than is suggested here. It grows reasonably fast and close to the ground, and is drought tolerant, so I used them as a quick ground cover to repopulate a part of the garden. They’ve done very well since I planted them in the Spring.

blue flower closeupOne thing I love about them is the asymmetry of each individual flower. Look closely (click on left image) and you’ll see that there are five petals on each, but the five are on only half the flower. Very asymmetric on that scale, but on a slightly larger scale, symmetry is restored by arranging a five of these “half-flowers” around a central leaf cluster to make a sort of larger, symmetric super-flower.

Very elegant.

-cvj

Last of the Wild Flowers

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Clifford
on August 11, 2006
in flowers and hiking
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The wild flowers seem to have peaked a lot earlier this year, probably due to a change in the rainfall pattern. Up on the way to Buckskin Pass yesterday, there were more deadheads than blooms. Perhaps other trails were doing better (such as the Cathedral Lake trail… look at the flowers I saw almost exactly the same time last year at this link).

Anyway, I’ve forgotten what these are called, but here are some lovely yellow flowers, just past their peak (but still lovely to see dotting the landscape here and there):

last wildflowers

-cvj