Kind of plain, but still pleasing.
Nicely spotted, but tough to see without laying down.
Now check this one out. This seedling (a little past prime before I got around to shooting it) points it’s first flower straight up. I’ve always thought that the down-pointing flowers of hellebores were a feature, not a bug. But I’m going to have to keep an eye on this baby.
Filed under Perennials by on Apr 5th, 2010. Comment. 
I stumbled out the door this morning with the dogs to find an inch or so of wet snow on the ground. Then we lost power from 6 to 7:15 a.m. Fortunately it got light enough to shoot some pix before we got lights, water and heat back.
The usual scenes for the time-lapse stack…
The grasses went down in some crazy patterns. (They bounced back by the time I got home from work.)
The 12-foot Miscanthus floridulus came down to around 5 feet.
A normally completely upright willow weighted down.
Filed under Perennials, Phenology, Weather/climate, Woodies by on Oct 16th, 2009. 8 Comments.
It’s official. It’s fall. The signs are everywhere.
I can’t wait to add some fall pix to my time-lapse stack.
Love the way this hybrid hazelnut colors up next to the driveway.
The ornamental grasses are coming into their own.
More colchicum. Looks like I have four decent patches, three different varieties.
Aconitum (monkshood) finally flowering, a sure sign of fall.
Elephant ears starting to lose their chlorophyll, with a little backlighting.
Filed under Annuals, Bulbs, Perennials, Woodies by on Oct 5th, 2009. 1 Comment.
