Pretty pictures: Purple and Blue

I've been taking tons of pictures lately, and then not doing much with them, blogularly speaking. Part of this is because I've been taking so many that the thought of trying to sort them all out makes me exhausted before I even start. Today, I'm going to at least try to get a few of them out of the way.

Hyacinthus orientalis NOID. In somebody's yard, here in town.

Glechoma hederacea. Ditto. I like this picture not because it's a great photo in and of itself, but because it's closeish to an accurate depiction of the weird luminous quality G. hederacea flowers have in certain lighting situations. Like all blue/purple things, they rarely photograph in anything close to accurate color, but I'll settle for them glowing slightly. The leaves are reddish, incidentally, because this photo was taken when it was still pretty cold at night, and Glechoma turns reddish in the cold. Like a lot of plants do.

Bacopa 'Colossal Blue.' Or possibly Sutera 'Colossal Blue.' I've lost track of which one is supposed to be current. This was at the ex-job, and whether or not I find it interesting depends mostly on what I'm comparing it to. So like, comparing it to the overall options available in the outdoor annual category, I think it kinda sucks. But comparing it to the other Bacopa/Sutera varieties I'm familiar with, all of which were white, it's interesting. A quick googling suggests that I should actually be even less impressed than I am, because this is far from the only lavender Bacopa in the world.

Lobelia erinus 'Laguna Sky Blue.' This was more impressive in person than in the photograph. I'm not sure what went wrong with the picture. I don't think I'm likely to try to grow Lobelias again, having had uniformly negative experiences with them, but there's no arguing that they're pretty.

Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost.' Also at the ex-job, and unfortunately a little bit past prime bloom, but nevertheless blue, so it fits, so here it is.

Delphinium 'Summer Skies Pacific Giant.' Delphinium cultivar names appear to be getting as ridiculous as those of orchids.

Viola sp. From our lawn. The plant's nothing special, but I thought this picture turned out remarkably well. Hence my remarking on it.

Viola sp. I don't actually remember where this one was taken. They're everywhere right now, you know.

Scilla siberica? An older photo, from someone's lawn. Really like this picture too.

Anchusa arvensis. Taken at a garden center that's not the ex-job. I hadn't actually heard of this before this year, and now that I've heard of it and seen it, I'm not sure how I feel about it.

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.