Water droplets add a nice touch to flowers in the early morning dew.
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Flower Garden 2008
The flower garden was full of flowers this August.
Centaurea
Centaurea is a genus with a lot of different species. This is another annual flower from that genus.
Pineapple Tree
The Pineapple Pear tree flowers most years and produces a good crop of Bartlett-like pears in August. It is among three pear trees in the orchard that were planted around a couple decades ago.
Pineapple Lily
The Pineapple Lily(Eucomis) is an interesting flowering plant from Africa. It has to be dug in the winter in this climate or will die. So it is stored in the basement.
Zinnias
Zinnias and other annual flowers are busy blooming. I think the goats would like to munch on this floral display.
Garlic Chives
Garlic Chives is very attractive to insects when it is flowering. A lot of bees spend time on them. We have divided them and have more plots of them that are full of flowers like this. The fast growing vines behind them are grapes.
Yucca Glauca
Yucca plants are unusual where I live. This one, that is flowering, was planted 15 years ago. It is the species named Yucca glauca, which stays evergreen. It didn’t flower until 10 years after it was planted in this location. But has flowered most years after that. The tall flower spikes really set it apart […]