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This is an old picture, but I don't know how old exactly: it was taken at some point while I was working at the greenhouse, and judging from the amount of blurring, it looks like it was probably taken before I figured out how to use the macro feature, so it might be from my first spring there, almost two years ago now. This is, unfortunately, all you get today, because I severely overestimated my interest in / tolerance for blog maintenance yesterday, and consequently found myself with no time to write.
Also, there's kind of a problem with me not having much in the way of current pictures to post about: nothing much seems to be happening here that I haven't covered already, and when I went to the ex-job to get pretty-picture blog fodder, I discovered them closed, for three consecutive days (Jan 1-3), which is unprecedented and actually concerns me a bit. I don't remember ever being closed for more than one day at a time when I worked there. Perhaps they needed me giving back half my paychecks more than they let on at the time.
So I don't know what I'm going to do for future posts, but I'm sure I'll come up with something. It may end up involving some hurried finishing of long-abandoned old posts. We will see.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Pretty picture: Hyacinthus orientalis cv.
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5 comments:
Love the grape hyacinth!!
A hyacinth is always appropriate in the winter. I have two 'in vase' as Carol calls it, with green shoot showing.
Here it is January already and again, and I didn't get any hyacinth bulbs to force. Every year I get so busy and forget to do that, and every year, I say I'm going to do that next year. One of these days I'm going to run out of years! I will just have to look at yours and pretend I smell it.
Hi, i'm new here just followed your comments in Autumn Belle's. I appreciate your blogging about tropical species despite your being in a temperate country. I am glad i visited so i learned that my old picture in Saigon, Vietnam is in fact Hyacinthus orientalis. I was hesitant to label it as water hyacinth (common in Philippines), because the flowers are different.
I would like to react to Darla's comment here (hope Darla and you will not mind) that your photo is a grape hyacinth. It is a temperate species and colored blue looking like grapes. Thank you.
Here I am, lo, these many years later, just in case someone googles to identify a flower they found in their yard. The plant pictured here is not a grape hyacinth.
This is a grape hyacinth: http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2010/04/pretty-picture-muscari-sp.html .
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