Rosa Mundi? Did she have a sister named Coati?

eta: googled Rosa Mundi. Looks like Ortho got it in one, I wasn't even in the right kingdom...

I had more than one variety of striped rose, but Rosa Mundi was the nicest.

I forgot to look for the tag today, sorry. I googled rosa mundi, and it's not it. This is not a rose variety. The Viet name is "hoa dao." You can google those words and check out the images. Vietnamese usually like to decorate with this plant for New Year. All the leaves fall off during the winter and when the weather warms up, these buds of flowers would bloom. Very pretty. It's typically in bright pink, varying shades of light pink, and white. It's unusual to be striped like that. It's also untypical although I've seen a few trees where they bloom both bright pink and white or light pink on different branches.

Texas Peach, Prunus persica …Hoa Đào màu đỏ

Ahhh.....I never know where traditions come from. I heard that peach blossoms ward off evil spirits. That's why you should plant some in the front yard and some in the back yard and no evil spirits will come into your home. :)

But if evil spirits sneak in the house during the winter, when the peach blossoms bloom in the front and back yards, they'll be trapped in the house. :mg:

chimney?

They're afraid of the tree, not the leaves and flowers, so how are they gonna sneak in during the winter?

Well then, just burn a fire. If the evil spirit goes down the chimney, like the big bad wolf, it'll just get its butt burned. :D

Then just build a house out of peach trees. :D

Wait, the Big Bad Wolf comes down the chimney? I thought that was Santa.

Wow, are you telling us the BBW IS Santa?

Down under, he'd come up you chimney. :haha:

Have you ever seen them together?

I rest my case.

The big bad wolf comes down the chimney of the pig's brick house in The Three Little Pigs. :D my nephew likes to act out to these stories. I got my ass burned from climbing down the chimney in that last house. :p

Anybody know what these are?

Growing wild beside the river.

ETA: The blooms hang almost upside down.

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I was gonna guess Narcissus, but it turns out those are always yellow or white.

Virginia Bluebells?

Thank you Bruce and Ocean for letting me know about image searches. I think I am getting better at doing searches now. :D

This is what I came up with... sagebrush bluebell

http://www.redbubble.com/people/bett...brush-bluebell

Of course, Bruce is still the king. :king:

You may be right, the plant looks short in that link but Google shows them grown taller and the plant is very similar. Besides, he don't know so that's what we'll tell him. :D

Here's a wiki pic of Virginia Bluebells.

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Ima go with that one, cuz the stem & leaves are a dead on match. The Sagebrush Bluebell looks to be a little bit smaller plant, and the blooms aren't a solid match.

Thanks for all the help folks.

:D

Ohh, naughty brain. Bruce did NOT just type Vagina Blueballs.

Be a great name for a lesbian punk group though. They could open for Pussy Riot. So to speak.

Ooooh, look, it's a 20041229-112236 bush.

Sorry :)

Bougainvillea - Newstead House, Brisbane Australia, Dec 29th 2004, at 11:22am (and 36 secs). Titled "Pink On Blue" (but I don't have access to my mats on this computer)

Ok...Now I know what Dean Koontz is talking about. He mentions bougainvillea in every novel of his I've ever read.

Thanks!

On our property, we live by the adage, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Plus, my black thumb never did any plant any good deed.

This morning, I went out to continue the cleanup from our fallen limb,
and noticed some blossoms hiding back in amongst the greenery.
Then I started looking around at the struggling orphans and lost beings...

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Now it's time to get to work.

Well that pine must have made you wicked strong. ;)

My middle daughter brought these over for her Mom, all from her garden in PDX.

OMG PDX I <3 U !1

Here's the sorry photo I was trying to get off phone A snow ball bush. Sucks, yes I know.

It was a learning experience. :haha:

I wouldn't say it sucks. Nice blossoms on that bush.

Clematis

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Evening Primrose

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Miniature Rose (about the size of a dime)

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Sweet William

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Sweet, nice pictures too.

Yep. Nice pictures

Thank you.

You like this little guy doncha? I can see why. Very pretty, all of them.

as for the miniature roses, is that one that comes in a small pot, appearing near the checkout counter in the days and weeks in the run up to Mother's Day? I've purchased miniature roses like that before and killed every single one of them. :(

The ones by the checkout near Mother's Day are a bad choice. They come from a poor upbringing in a bad neighborhood, they're junkies hooked on hard fertilizers and grow light stimulants. They have no stamina so it's near impossible for them to survive the real world abuse of normal people.

My wife's uncle is a landscape guy and he gave out small rose bushes a few years ago. We got one with the instructions to dig a hole, put it in the hole and then forget about it. That rose bush is doing quite well. So I think the bush you get matters.

I do!:D

I can't remember where Momdigr got her mini-rose. I'm sure it came from Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, or the like. I don't think she does anything to/with it. It just goes about it's bidness.

Some of my Impdamnifino.

Begonias?
... Nope.
Maybe Explorer Rose

Impatiens, maybe.

The blooms look a little large for impatiens.

To me and my bleary eyes...

Yes. New Guinea,

One of my Azaleas, that has survived the dry weather, has it's seasons mixed up.

That's strange, Buster, let's look clos.... Oh, nevermind.

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my upstairs neighbor's rose

Nice!

I love it that roses bloom for such a long time. From Spring through the Fall, they have blossoms going. I should plant rose bushes in my yard.

Bad for the neighborhood, they hang out with a bunch of pricks. :rolleyes:

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A Little Help?
 

I need help identifying this wildflower. It was found ass up in a ditch out in the sticks. Ok, it wasn't literally ass up in a ditch, but it was growing in a ditch, literally.

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It appears the initial petals fold downward to make a skirt for the flower. Orange. The specimen pictured is approximately 12-15 inches tall. The plant itself was about 3 feet tall. Practically no scent. Not that any in the Gravdigr household could smell, anyway.

I would call the flower waxy/fleshy.

ETA: It lasted (in water) for a pretty good while. 5 days, or thereabouts.

Anyone? Bueller?

Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa var. interior)

Dunno what they are, but I planted them years ago and they keep coming back. :)

Balloon flower!! Momdigr has them around the patio.

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I love them.

Thank you, sir.:thumb:

CarolinaSpringGlorys.
The blue ones are Speedwells near as I can tell. iDunno about the ittyBitty white ones.