I’m frilly,
perched with my
sisters — songs
for the bees.
Beauty taunts,
but beware:
she can take
your liver.
Leaves too grand
for compost;
stalks so good –
yummy pie!
Shrinking, I
hide in grass
but smile for
cameras.
Note: if you click on the link to the photos it will take you to a larger image of each.
Mish is today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link Night.
Thank you for the display of your garden. I didn’t know that Hellebores could cost me a liver.
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You’re welcome. Every part of the helleborus is toxic, and some parts if ingested can cause organ failure.
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Fascinating write, a botanical journey Liss.
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Thank you, Rob. Plants are my friends (except for poison ivy!)
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Thank you for passing these through your flora translator.
I looked up helleborus, and Wiki has a fantastic historic drawing of it. I love when I can stumble on an image like that.
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It led me to this. Check it out:
http://www.biolib.de/thome/index.html
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Oh WOW! 724 pages of them. What a great find, Ken. Thank you for passing them on 🙂
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😁 😇
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You know, I love those historic drawings also. The colorings and the letterings especially.
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‘Leaves too grand for compost; stalks so good – yummy pie!’
They really are gorgeous leaves!
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Gia, last year this plant put up a flower stalk. So far no sign of it this year.
https://tao-talk.com/2020/05/21/dverse-natamo-showy-strangers/
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Beautiful! it kind of looks like a massive berry that hasn’t quite ripened yet. 😋
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Lovely pictures. You’ve a thriving garden
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Thank you. Small gems, each one appreciated ❤
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Indeed. Grown with love.
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I adore your “slimverses”. Years ago on Twitter, a bunch of us did six-word poems, and at one point, I was posting my own photography, and for each one (times hundreds) I wrote a slimverse. Great minds, right?
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You make me love slimverse all the more with that knowledge, Glenn. JIM got me started on them. Was he one of your group? They are perfect for a thoughtbyte with a photo, I agree!
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I love the lines about the violet and the rhubarb! ❤
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So glad you enjoyed them, thank you 🙂
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They are lovely blooms specially the pear blossoms. Didn’t know that helleborus was that dangerous.
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Thank you, Grace. For humans and for pets!
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oh my your garden is thriving, you have a green thumb … a slice of pie please 🙂
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Thanks, Kate 🙂 I may even have enough stalks this year to make a pie.
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yea, I buy mine from the farmers market, yum!
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This was a lovely journey through your garden. I think I liked the last one best. Maybe. 😀
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🙂 So glad you enjoyed the journey, Merril, thanks!
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You’re very welcome, Lisa.
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Think we’ve all learn something tonight – thank so much for your brightness and creativity
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Scott, thank you very much for reading and your kind comment.
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Lovely, lovely tour of your garden! Such pretty words, and I giggled at the warning for my liver considering I’m sipping wine as I read and comment.
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LOL so funny about the wine 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the tour, Raivenne.
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hide in grass
but smile for
cameras.
How nice of the flowers to be so inviting and so friendly. It gives a nice feeling, Jade!
Hank
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So glad you enjoyed the poem, Hank 🙂
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Thanks for the garden tour! The descriptions were lovely. I like that you gave a little spotlight to those pretty violets.
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My pleasure, Mish!
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I like your flower personifications Lisa. Spring blossoms are wonderful! I have a slice of that good rhubarb pie! :>)
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🙂 I’ll give you a virtual slice once I make it.
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Don’t forget the vanilla ice cream on top!! Yum!!
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Please don’t take my liver!
What a severe flower.
A fresh collection.
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lol thanks!
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What a lovely walk through your garden! Thanks for sharing! 🌸
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My pleasure, Tricia 🙂
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Very lovely verses! Thanks for sharing your flowers with us.
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Thanks, Silver! My pleasure.
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It looks like your garden has sprung to life! I saw some wild helleborus a few weeks back but they hadn’t flowered yet – I read up on them and learned they are very poisonous!
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Their blossoms are SO beautiful, but I had no idea they were poisonous until after I bought this one. I did learn that deer won’t go near them, so I transplanted this one to the corner of the house where the deer have taken to nibbling my hosta. We’ll see if it deters them 🙂
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I love the last one especially. (K)
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🙂
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Lovely photos and verse – a real Spring serving of 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Beauty 😍 They are amazing!
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Thank you, Vivi 🙂
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Awesome Lisa! I just went with Jennifer to get some flowers for her to plant.
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Cool. What kinds did you get? It’s still threatening frost here so have to hold off for a bit.
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She got geraniums and other flowers… she also purchased a lot of herbs for an herb garden… my mission this year is to transplant some wild honeysuckle and place it with the vines on our fence… I want them solid where you cannot see through the fence…
So this year I’m trying to step up with that…. I usually leave it to her.
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I love geraniums! They have so many pretty colors and their leaves are beautiful. Herbs are always fun to grow. I took cuttings off of my rosemary plant (more a shrub now) and put them in water. They rooted right away and I planted them in the fall. I took the new plant over to my son on Sunday. He likes rosemary with his potatoes. Glad you have a plan for transplanting. Honeysuckle smells so good. I’ve only seen it growing wild. Good plan for turning your fence into a barrier from prying eyes.
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I love that smell and I’ve googled it…people do transplant it successfully…that is all I needed to know. The bees won’t be fun but to smell that when you walk out the door will be nice.
She got herbs like I said but also something about a kind of tea you can make with the roots of something…ok…I wasn’t paying attention to that part lol.
I like rosemary also…I’m looking forward to it.
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