At the Jewish Cemetery

On March 6th I was shooting photos for the Victoria Grid Project - a group on Flickr. The Jewish Cemetery is in the March grid. As I was getting my photos ready for the grid group pool, I noticed that this flower pot is broken and the poppy does not look like a flower from the florists, or a cut flower. Oriental poppies, are difficult to keep this fresh looking and you seldom if ever seem them sold as cut flowers. When I was shooting this, I took no notice of how this flower was growing. NOW, looking at my photos, I believe this poppy is growing in the ground. It is very early for this plant to be in bloom, though. Perhaps its the warmth of all the stones in the area. The poppies in my garden have leaves about 6 - 8 inches tall, now... 3 weeks after these shots were taken. I really must go back some time and try to find this flower again.

I have finished cleaning up my light garden and find I now have one extra tray, without plants. I think I will leave it for now, as I have no plans for more plants, at the moment. Two of the cactus plants are too tall for the tiers and I might put them out for the summer and not bring them in.

Last evening we went to see Slumdog, the Millionaire. Oh boy!! this is a high impact movie.. there are parts that I could not watch. It did have a happy ending. I was happy to end up back home where its quiet, clean, and comfortable.

Peloric Foxgloves

While reviewing my garden photos I found these strange foxglove (digitalis) photos. I spent a few happy hours researching and reading about them. These are peloric foxgloves. It is said to be a mutation. I once thought that a virus caused the mutation but could find no confirmation of that cause for the unusual flowers. I have had them in my garden before. A few years ago, I saved the seed and took them to a 'seedy Saturday" seed exchange. I should have saved the seeds this year. I understand that if you self polinate these flowers you will get the peloric feature coming true to type when you reseed. I see from the photo that I have a white one and a pink one. Well, no seed saved, but I hope to see them again next year. I will surely save seed next time I see them, after my research. There is a group on Flickr for plant identification. I am thinking of adding these to the group pool, as I spent quite a lot of time finding the name peloric.

Yesterday we went to the Bay for the annual Christmas basket and this year they DID have the Bay Bears. Of course I have one. It is really cute and now sits with the other one I keep by my desk. One is Keswick 2006 and this year is Charlotte 2008.

I am now bringing in the humming bird feeder at night and putting it out in the morning. Some of the snow melted, as it was a few degrees above zero. Now it is snowing again. We are to get 4 inches more snow.