Monday, May 30, 2011

Pretty pictures: Pinkish Red

Pressed for time again -- we were elsewhere for a good chunk of yesterday.

Most of these were taken at the ex-job; the rose was at Lowe's.

Dianthus NOID. I should know what the variety is: it's the same thing we sold during the two springs I worked there. I just forgot, and there's no time to try to look for the ID.


Lamprocapnos x 'King of Hearts.' I regret not getting a clearer photo of the foliage on this one; it seemed different. Not that I'm hugely familiar with bleeding-heart foliage.


NOID Cattleya alliance orchid.


Paeonia 'Hoki.' ('Tis the season.)


Cyclamen persicum NOID. If anybody still remembers my Cyclamen experiment from last fall: it looked worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, and then I moved it to the (cool, humid) basement under shop lights, and it's doing massively better. Among other things, it's growing HUGE leaves. Which I guess is good. I was getting sick of it and considering throwing it out, so it's shaping up just in time, pretty much.


Rosa 'Radtko' (doubled knock-out rose). I'm sure there are roses out there that I could find interesting and exciting, but I haven't run into them at Lowe's. Not that I expected to. I'm just saying.


Dianthus NOID. Dianthus were one of my favorites to sell, at the ex-job; they smelled nice, and I enjoyed deadheading them. I'm not currently growing any, and probably won't in the near future, because we're still working on establishing a raised bed in the backyard, and even if we had a bed already I maybe still wouldn't grow any because I don't know if I'd want to, but they were nice, occupationally speaking.


3 comments:

Liza said...

Oh, I love Peonies. That heavenly scent! I'm lucky to be on vacation while they're in full bloom, mmmm!

Pat said...

I love the taste of pinks.

Ginny Burton said...

I was going to send this link to Liza since she just had a post about plant theft, but she's on vacation, so I am posting it here. Makes me want to get a shotgun and spend the night in the community garden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/flower-bandit-filches-cleveland-park-blooms/2011/05/27/AGVLyMEH_story.html