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Blue Lettuce Revisited
Two dear friends within several months of each over have discovered what I think is this plant. The individual flowers look a good bit like Chicory, the rest of the plant? Oh what a difference. Blue Lettuce (Lactuca floridana). Blue Lettuce is an annual biennial herb growing from a taproot to a height of four to…
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Lobelia inflata
Incredibly tiny flowers that grow on slightly hairy stems. At just 1/3 inch long the flowers would be perfect for a dollhouse. Lobelia inflata flowers are a beautiful shade of pale blue-purple. Native to eastern North America. A bit of conflict on the Internet regarding whether Lobelia inflata is poisonous or not. More sites say…
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Gaillardia
Here Gaillardias are growing wild in New Mexico, at Bandelier National Monument. A park I’ve visited many times. And hope to visit many more times. And more Gaillardias growing wild at Bandelier National Monument. It seems they’re ubiquitous! It amuses me. My Dad had a thing about digging up Dandelions in his lawn. He was…
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Violets for the Birthday Girl
She’s celebrating her 104th birthday. Absolutely marvelous. She’s part of an amazing family. A family that brings love to everything they do. And she loves Violets. So Violets it will be. There are somewhere between four hundred and five hundred different species of Violets in the genus Viola, and those Violets are scattered all over…