Anybody know what the name of this is? And what wildlife might particularly like it? The bare branches in front of it are my Fuji apple tree, ready for a little springtime too.
Meantime, here’s an amaryllis’s equivalent of gray hair, the color of the flowers in the older stalk (two weeks old!) a lighter pink at the back, and in the second stalk, newly opened, bursting out in color. Same plant.
Here, this shows the contrast a little better.
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Gee, deer love apples but doubt that they are the problem. The flowers are beautiful!!!!
Comment by Joansie 03.14.09 @ 2:47 pmAs Lene mentioned in an earlier post, the photos aren’t embiggening. I took a garden tour of Madeira a few years ago and bought a book with a gazillion plants identified but can’t get a close enough look to take a guess. Now that I’m stumped I hope one of your friends will put me out of my misery.
Comment by LynnM 03.14.09 @ 3:54 pmAs the one with the purple thumb with orange polka dots, I have no idea. The amaryllis is gorgeous!
Humor time:
The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you are doing, someone else does.
Comment by Don Meyer 03.14.09 @ 7:22 pmI’m afraid we need some more photos, including a close-up of the flowers. I still can’t promise to recognize it, but now I have a really good excuse. When do you go off your “post-surgery” diet and get to try a few of those great things from Costco?
Comment by LauraN 03.14.09 @ 7:25 pmSo when the flowers get older, they get darker. I wish that would happen to my hair! Maybe in my next life I’ll come back as an amaryllis!
Robin
Comment by Robin 03.14.09 @ 8:05 pmI agree with the other gardeners; need more and bigger photos to tell anything!
Comment by Ruth 03.14.09 @ 9:25 pmConsidering the part of California you live in, and the darkness of the fruit (if it’s fruit), and the time of year My guess would be olives.
Maybe?
I have no clue. I only know all the flower photos lately are beautiful and so cheerful.
Comment by TripletMom 03.14.09 @ 11:27 pmYour plant mystery has me thinking. I remember our guides stumping even the most gifted plant lovers on the tour with a large shrub/small tree that I thought looked like a callicarpa but it was actually in flower, not berry. Turned out to be a tree fuchsia–not the blousy pink or red we all recognize but small purple. So, does your tree produce pods later?
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