- Plant peeps

Retrospective (5/21/2016)

Patch #120 Ripe dewberry

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Grace calls them my "plant people" and I'd like to think I get their names straight more often than not. Corrections are always welcome however.

In any case, after a couple of travel weeks during which rain fell, there were some new folks in the neighborhood. Please allow me to introduce you to:

Stonecrop ...

Wine cups (so bright the camera couldn't handle it) ...

Rock lettuce ...

Skeleton plant ...

Nerve ray ...

which was one of the first plants I learned when we moved here, but I still think of it as the "present plant" because of the unusual square bud ...

Ratany, which is my newest flower friend ...

Mexican feather grass ...

Beautiful, but unwelcome Malta yellow star (a prolific invasive and a source of much weeding activity on my part) ...

Two-leaved senna ...

Skullcap (I think) ...

And while the butterflies move too fast for me to photograph, the caterpillars left some lacy traces on the mountain laurel ...

I saved the best for last: ripe dewberries ...

seven of which I ate, one by one, with just a bit of dark chocolate ...

What a treat!