(I thought for a while my O post was going be about the arrival of Grandbebe Opal but she has delayed her arrival for unknown reasons…much to Bebe Momma’s chargrin. Maybe later this week…or maybe next!)I brought several plants with me when I moved from Missouri to northern Colorado. Folly perhaps, but one I deemed worthy of effort. After all, the growing zones, not so much the same! But some took. (My stand of willow leaved sunflowers are probably looked upon as weeds by the current owners of my old house!) Some did not. (Alas for my poor blood root.)
Evening primrose took to the Colorado climate pretty well, and was one that I transplanted when I took over…I mean….when I started sharing Wonderful Guy’s yard.
Oenothera has several manifestions that grows all over the county. Tall ones, low to the ground…yellow that fade to coral, white that fade to pink…broad ones, 5 inches across, little ones, not quite a couple inches wide.I am constantly fascinated, however, that what bloomed for me in Missouri in May/June…is blooming for me here…end of July.
Over ten years here, and my head is still in a zone 5b-6a, instead of zone 4b, where I really live.
3 comments:
The petals look like delicate tissue paper. Very pretty.
Oh, the yellow ones are pretty! I've only ever seen the kind that grow wild on rocky slopes in CO: the kind that bloom white and fade to pink.
Love the rain drops! Rick was in CO (Vail & Boulder) on business this week and said he saw more umbrellas (and rain) in two days than he had in the 30+ years that we lived there! And so green too (he said).
You could have used "O is for zero bebes born in July..."
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