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Bleeding Heart Flowers

Posted on March 28, 2011  Comments (3)

photo of some bleeding heart flowers

One the first flowers to bloom in my yard this year are some bleeding heart flowers (shown the photo). If I remember right, I planted them last year. I love perennials: I just plant them once and then get to keep enjoying them. I also find that some plants that are supposedly annuals seem to keep coming back (I think the plant must just manage to hang on, even if they often don’t, and so are called annuals). I enjoy gardening a bit, but don’t really spend enough time to know much about it. I just do as much as I feel like – and often am so busy that amounts to not much.

Also known as Lamprocapnos spectabilis they are a rhizomatous perennial plant native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan.

Related links: photos of Spring Tulips from my yard last year – First Flowers of Spring (2009) – What Are Flowers For? – Backyard Wildlife: Turtle – great sunflower photo with bees

Spring Tulips

Posted on April 7, 2010  Comments (6)

photo of red and yellow tulips by John Hunter

photo of red and yellow tulips by John Hunter

Photo of red and yellow tulips in my yard. This is by far the most tulips that have flowered. The last several years I think there were 3-5 flowers. This year there are 20 in the front yard.

Related: Backyard Wildlife: Great Spreadwing Damselfly – Researchers Learn What Sparks Plant Growth – What Are Flowers For? – Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake Photos

First Flowers of Spring

Posted on March 9, 2009  Comments (2)

photo of Purple Flowers

The first flowers of Spring in my yard.

Related: What Sparks Plant Growth – What Are Flowers For? – Curious Cat Science Search

Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake Photos

Posted on January 9, 2009  Comments (1)

Yellow flower on Antelope Island

I have posted photos from the first day of my Utah trip: Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake City. The Great Salt Lake is

Darwin’s Orchid Prediction

Posted on May 23, 2008  Comments (3)

American Museum of Natural History:

Darwin first saw this astonishing orchid from Madagascar, Angraecum sesquipedale, in 1862. Its foot-long green throat holds nectar—the sweet liquid that draws pollinators – but only at its very tip. “Astounding,” Darwin wrote, of this strange adaptation. “What insect could suck it?” He predicted that Madagascar must be home to an insect with an incredibly long feeding tube, or proboscis. Entomologists were dubious: no such insect had ever been found there.

Related: High Resolution Darwin Documents – Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online – How flowering plants beat the competition – What Are Flowers For?