I get a lot of deliveries. Without a vehicle, it's the only reliable way to Get Stuff Here. Some of the drivers will bring packages to the top of the driveway, which I very much appreciate. But I don't blame the drivers who choose to leave packages at the bottom of the driveway, and that's why there's a little plastic lawn chair visible from the road. In the Winter, I leave a sled down there.
Walking down the driveway to pick up a package, I spotted this:
I believe it's a foxglove, which I don't recall ever seeing here before.
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Exciting stuff!
Especially since it's in a place where the animals are not, so I don't have to try to transplant it to avoid accidental poisoning.
And so interesting:
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This morning I also walked up the road a hundred feet or so, to check on a little patch of columbines in front of my Upper West Side paddock. Some years I've seen two or three colors of columbine there, but this year I saw only one color - a lovely purple. Today there are just three blossoms remaining, Here's one:
I hope you've got some flowers blooming wherever you are.
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Great find!
ReplyDeleteFoxgloves are a beautiful flower. There are too many cats and rabbits around to take a chance growing them. Sorry to read you haven’t replaced your vehicle.
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I never would have planted foxglove deliberately, but since this plant is beyond the reach of the critters, I can enjoy it.
DeleteThat's a wonderful find. You seem to have worked out a vehicle free life. Tips, please!
ReplyDeleteIt's a decision that gets reconsidered every time I have to ask for a ride somewhere. No cabs or uber here.
DeleteFoxgloves grow wild in many places. Interesting you've not seen it there before and boom, all of a sudden it's there. I guess a bird or other creature brought the seed along with them. That's how I get palms and corn growing here in my potted plants. :)
ReplyDeleteThis happens a lot with bird or wind pollinated plants - and it always feels like a precious gift to see something blooming for the first time, unless it's something dangerous in the paddocks or invasive anywhere at all. How big do your potted palms grow?
DeleteHow neat! The foxglove, I mean. I hope it becomes a regular fixture. I like the columbine too.
ReplyDeleteI'll keep a lookout for the basal leaves of foxglove in other spots now that I know what they look like.
DeletePretty foxgloves. I know there's one that grows by the side of the road near me. The columbine is pretty, too. My mallows are blooming (light pink) and choral bells, butterfly weed is thinking about it and tickseed is going to seed. Lots of white, yellow and pink. (We need to find some blue to add in.)
ReplyDeleteYou've got lots of varied flowering going on there! Maybe a blue spiderwort? I enjoy the spiderworts, but I know some people find them too spread-y. Mine are rising above the goutweed, so I'm cheering them on!
DeleteWhat a happy find, Quinn. I love foxglove but have not had luck with them. Columbine, however is coming up everywhere now that I finally got one to live. It's even in the sidewalk cracks!
ReplyDeleteLiving without a vehicle haz to be a challenge. How far are you from town?
Columbine has been one of my favorites wildflowers since childhood, and I am so lucky to have it growing here. Too far from town to walk, even when I was able to walk distances. The vehicle thing continues to be an internal debate of cost:value, but so far the answer always comes up the same.
DeleteFoxgloves and columbines are both so pretty, but I didn't realize that the former are dangerous to animals.
ReplyDeleteYep. If eaten, foxglove (genus Digitalis) is highly toxic to animals, including humans. But digitalis (the extracted drug) has saved countless lives.
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