4 26 09 pink petals
4 14 09 white petals
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound.
The changing colour of similar flowers has inspired poetry, as in the following exerpt from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: (Act 2: Oberon):
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound.
~
if you click on the 'today in my garden' label tag on this post you'll see the first photos of the wild trillium we found on the wooded trail on part of our walk. we've been watching for the change in hue and today it was really pink. next will be purple from what i read. i put my shoe in the photo so you can see how big the leaves and flower are, and the leaves are much larger than 10 days or so ago. the yellow flowers are a wild weed that are everywhere and soar above us. it's good allergy time out there!
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Dont say that awful word allergy!
Nice shots.
Hi Stephany,
Great photos and a lovely post thanks alot.
Love,
Herrad
That yellow-flowered plant looks like Broom, from the photo (a moderate-sized, short-lived perennial shrub). It grows wild, in the UK, although there are cultivated varieties. The really fun part is in the mid to late-summer, when the seed pods, which look a bit like very small mange tout), dry out, twist and finally pop, scattering their seeds.
yes i think it's the same wild shrub Matt..it's scotchbroom? or something like that here. it grows all over, pretty thick though it remains green yearround here and blooms in the spring, same seeds that pop too
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