My lovely neighbour gives me one of these every December. When checking how to spell ‘amaryllis’ I learned that it’s actually in the genus Hippeastrum. Learn something new every day!
Hippeastrum
Tag: flowers
cyclamen
flower finches
From the kitchen window, I can see the huge creeping rosemary bush on the hill above the house. While I sip my morning tea, I watch flocks of finches swoop in to eat the flowers for breakfast.
dahlias
Ink + watercolour + oil pastels
bud vase
Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Marjorie Channon’
Whenever I notice something for the first time, it makes me wonder what other beauty I am obliviously missing.
Grindelia camporum
Time for a new sketchbook. This one has a white canvas cover, which will quickly get grubby, so I decided to paint it. Watercolours definitely run amok on canvas!
Great Valley gumweed is native to California and Baja California, where it can be found in a number of habitats including chaparral and woodlands. The flower heads fill with a sticky white exudate that was reportedly used by the Chumash to treat poison-oak rash, skin diseases and pulmonary troubles.
bouquet of the day
It’s nice to be back home, and gathering flowers from the yard.
for Annette
Nasturtiums and Mexican marigolds are both very strongly scented flowers, one peppery, the other more citrusy. Put them in a vase together, and they create a visual riot, while the aromas somehow balance and calm each other. An analogy for my bestie and me? Maybe.
vase o’ v.a.s.e.
Today’s arrangement brought to you by Verbena, Aloe, Salvia and Encelia, whose initials, I just realised, spell VASE.
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