May 30, 2007

Ooh... better put two poofy flowers on top...

Flowers of some sort

... to cover that up... though I know that even the flowers get you guys excited...
Posted by Ann Althouse at 10:22 AM
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6 comments:

Bissage said...

Excited, yes. But after viewing so much of your garden porn, my own garden just isn't the same, any more.

5/30/07, 10:37 AM
Jennifer said...

Does this mean it's primetime?

5/30/07, 11:20 AM
Anonymous said...

Always liked spiderwort.

5/30/07, 2:11 PM
John Burgess said...

Hurray for the Brothers Tradescant!

There's a lot of info about them and their botanic discoveries at the Museum of Garden History in Lambeth, south London, in the repurposed St. Mary's Church.

Very busy botanic family.

5/30/07, 4:16 PM
Peter Hoh said...

Some of these popped up in my lawn one summer when I was away and nobody bothered to mow for a few weeks. I bought some at a nursery that are taller, but have the same color blossoms.

I call it spiderwort, but my friend who grew up in Iowa knows this plant as snotgrass. Latin name is Tradescantia virginiana.

5/30/07, 4:55 PM
Sissy Willis said...

Gorgeous pic!

We call 'em spiderworts, too . . . botanical name refers to John and John Tradescant, the 16th- and 17th-century English father-and-son who served as the King's gardeners and transformed the landscape on both sides of the Atlantic through their work as plant explorers extraordinaire:

The King's gardeners

5/30/07, 5:53 PM

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