Tag: Flower
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Icehouse Landscaping Update, End of May
Sooo much progress as we hustle the icehouse rehab toward its conclusion in these final days of May…
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Rhododendron Haiku
Another serenade to seasonality this Saturday in late May. I offer you a rhododendron haiku to honor this temperate turn from spring to a precocious preview of summery days ahead. Rhodos invite optimism. An audacious pinkish-purply-red extravaganza floating above a sea of green. A swell of polished rhododendron leaves creating a sea of Lily-of-the-Valley leaves.…
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Shadblow Blossoms
Another harbinger of spring, the shadblow have blossomed, brightening still virtually leafless windbreaks and meadow margins.
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Crocus Time
Crocus are among the most notable and predictable harbingers of springtime, sometimes beginning to poke their delicate green shoots up in the late winter. Considered by some to be symbols of rebirth, youth, and happiness, crocus are the quintessence of the Adirondack shift from inhospitable winter growing conditions to more temperate times when cultivating blooms…
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Cross-Country Ski Tracks
Sunday snow arriving, or so we are told. Possibly 10-12” of March powder. Or mashed potatoes. Or something in between. If meteorologists are correct, we’ll be creating fresh cross-country ski tracks in the days ahead. Did you know that cross-country ski trails/tracks are known as “loipes”? The photo above — moody afternoon light, thin cover…
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Carpe Amaryllis
An unfurled flame;a wind whippedpeace pendant dancing, daring;a pearly ribbonuntwisting, untwisted;a clarion calltrump-pump-pump-iting porcelain secrets…Seize winter now.
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Gladioli
Garish gladioli. Or so I thought. Not sure why really. Nor how long. But, quietly to myself, for a long-long time I’ve written off glads. Too flamboyant. Or overly ostentatious. Or maybe just too vibrant… Or perhaps it’s none of these. Perhaps it’s the association with funerals. Gladioli fans typically adorn funeral settings, right? In…
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Catalpa
A few weeks ago I received a question from a friend visiting ADK Oasis Highlawn: What’s the tree in the front yard with exotic white blossoms and enormous heart-shaped leaves? I stopped by to verify that a catalpa (aka catawba, cigar tree) was blooming. The catalpa tree is pretty exotic for these parts, planted by…
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit
While my poppy passion is no secret to Rosslyn Redux readers, I’m less vocal about my partiality to wild flora like trillium and Jack-in-the-Pulpit. One learns to protect these treasures! But today I pause for an overt gawk at this exotic Jack-in-the-Pulpit, a sylvan surprise with almost impossibly green and purple stripes. Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum…
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Tulip Time 2023
Springtime is tulip time, a dramatic chapter in gardners’ succession blooming cycles. With snow drops, hyacinth, and daffodils fading, colorful tulip blooms take center stage. And this year’s tulip time does not disappoint. Signs of springtime are abundant lately. It’s asparagus time. Also ramps, apple blossoms, dandelions, fiddleheads, tulips, nettles,… And lily of the valley…
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Friend or Foe: Dandelions
It’s that remarkable season of reawakening, spring, glorious springtime! And more than all of the other blooms that announce the season of unslumbering, Dandelions remind us that nature is nourishing and vibrant and brilliantly colorful. Routinely dismissed, even abhored, as an annoying weed, dandelions are for me a welcome harbinger of warming temperatures, greening environs,…