Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Wonders of the cool weather

In the more utilitarian sphere, we're seeing blooms on the tomato, squash, cucumber, melon, and chile plants. On the scale of beauty, I'd place the tomato at the low end and the pepper blooms of many varieties at the high end, but that's just because I think that pepper plants are beautiful in and of themselves and used to grow them indoors in pots on windowsills in the winter for their aesthetic qualities. Also beautifying their surroundings by blooming right now are rosemary, thyme, clockvine (thunbergia alata), cypress vine, morning glories (Grandpa Ott and pink flying saucer right now), geraniums like crazy, zinnias, cosmos, Turk's cap, lantana, plumbago, pink oxalis, and asclepias. Where are those hyacinth-bean flowers?

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