also known as Osteospermum. Thanks to mmegaera for identifying them. (I had originally wondered if they were gerbera.)
Category: flower
White Lilium
Lilium
Last summer, I planted two pots of lilium. I was disappointed, but not surprised, when they apparently died before the end of summer. We live in a very harsh climate, and I am mildly astonished when plants survive both the conditions and my lackadaisical care. This spring I thought “that’s a pretty weed” then realized the lilium had come back. This is the red variety that I planted; the white variety has buds that have not yet opened. Isn’t it gorgeous?
Spring Blossoms
Between winds, snow, frost, and hail spring blossoms lead a perilous life in Colorado Springs.
Rose
I can never see a photo of one rose without thinking of the poem:
One Perfect Rose
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet –
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
‘My fragile leaves,’ it said, ‘his heart enclose.’
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker
Flowers
So Red
Shamrocks
Oddly, the pot of shamrocks closer to the window has no blooms at present.
Cat Safe Plants
I started looking at for a list of cat safe house plants for my mother and was amazed by how many were on this list at House Plants: Cat Safe Plants.
Purple
After the Fourth of July, I bought several pots of petunias that had been part of the red, white and blue promotion at King Soopers. None of the pots had blooms when I bought them, but the foliage looked healthy. Within a week, all of the planted annuals were blooming profusely. Petunias are tough: a nice choice for Colorado.