Not sure what they are but I thought they were pretty.
It took me a while to figure it out (bad case of sluggish deja vu) but I finally figured out what it is! Woodland Phlox (Phlox divaricata) is it’s ID. I had a gut feeling that it was a phlox of SOME kind XP
It’s supposedly an Ontario native wildflower, but I am sad to say I’ve never seen one in the wild :< (or in a garden for that matter </3 )
((maybe one day I’ll get some to replace my garden phloxes in my shade garden))
thordinson:aeromachia:sergeantprnz:
WHO NAMED THIS FLOWER
IT BARGES INTO ALL YOUR CONVERSATIONS
IT GIVES YOU A STUPID NICKNAME WHEN YOU’VE MET, LIKE, ONCE
IT WIGGLES ITS STAMENS AT YOU SUGGESTIVELY FOR NO REASON
IT IS: THE AGGRESSIVELY FORWARD BEARDED IRIS
in love with this flower oh my god
I just noticed the GUARANTEED TO GROW part of the label brb dying
I just needed this back on my dash.
……….. they just don’t name and advertise flowers like they used to lol.
I didn’t know about it being a remedy for a lot of those ailments, but I certainly knew about it being a remedy for Poison Ivy and Poison Oak! The funny thing with Jewelweeds is the fact that they often like the same habitat as poison ivy; so if there is poison ivy in the moist woodlands, jewelweed can’t be that far away (most of the time).
If it weren’t for their height and reseeding annual nature (meaning they’d swamp my other plants) as well as their need for such a wet moist environment, I’d totally have a couple to include in my woodland garden collection =) ….. at least I have their Bizzie Lizzie relatives to enjoy (yes, jewelweed and garden impatiens are in the same genus~ even if they don’t look the same).
Coneflower
Ratibida columnifera~
I have mixed feelings about them. On the one hand it doesn’t have quite the same classiness as an Echinacea, but on the other hand their flowers look kind of cute; like little red dresses <3
I didn’t see the Black Widow until I got home, and looked closer at the pictures. It was blurred, because I was focusing on the Stonecrop. I was literally right on this spider… heh. Creepy :)
*shudders at the widow spider* it’s sometimes spooky what you’ll find in photographs that you take lol. I remember one time seeing grubs in my photos of acorns that I was holding >_<
Now this is the one sedum I’ve been REALLY wanting to include in my gardens! What’s a woodland garden without woodland stonecrop (Sedum ternatum)?
The Sedum kamtschaticum, or Russian stonecrop, is finally blooming. It had been mismarked as Sedum dasyphyllum ‘Golden Glow’, but kihaku-gato helped me get an accurate ID because he has some. Thanks man - now to go back and correct all the tags …
S. kamtschaticum is one of the hardiest sedums, well-known as a green roof staple, so it should be able to handle the Texas summer heat with the partial shade the Mexican plum will provide.
No problemo~ mistags happen all the time in the gardening world (sadly). This type of low-growing sedum is so sturdy that I have yet to find a way to incorporate them with other sedums; their large size makes them likely to swamp their smaller brethren. So for the time being I have them in only two gardenbeds where there are mostly large and vigorous perennials.
Crassula umbella
I nearly thought this exotic fella was fake, but I looked it up on google images; this fella is a real and legit. It’s cool how they look like little satellite dishes! One of the couple of succulents that I could really see for a outer space themed rock garden!
