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Monday, January 4, 2010
Pretty picture: Hyacinthus orientalis cv.
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.
Love the grape hyacinth!!
ReplyDeleteA hyacinth is always appropriate in the winter. I have two 'in vase' as Carol calls it, with green shoot showing.
ReplyDeleteHere 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.
ReplyDeleteHi, 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThis is a grape hyacinth: http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2010/04/pretty-picture-muscari-sp.html .