monday floral quiz

Here’s a lit­tle help­ing of some of what was bloom­ing in the gar­den today.

I wanted to have a lit­tle more fun with the pic­tures than show­ing you a slideshow of the gar­den. Only the first one, Camel­lia sasan­qua ‘Cleopa­tra’ with an atten­dant ant, is a basic straight­for­ward shot. The rest are cropped and then col­laged together. See if you can guess what every­thing is.

There’s an answer key at the end.

Camellia sasanqua 'Cleopatra'

Camel­lia sasanqua

Monday florals 2

Mon­day flo­rals 2

Monday florals 1

Mon­day flo­rals 1

Monday Florals 3

Mon­day Flo­rals 3

Monday Florals 4

Mon­day Flo­rals 4



The answers (top to bot­tom, left to right):

    Camel­lia sasan­qua ‘Cleopa­tra’
    Paper­white nar­cis­sus
    Alyssum
    Plec­tran­thus ver­ti­cil­la­tus (Creep­ing Char­lie) flow­ers
    Epi­den­drum hybrid, red
    Solanum pyra­can­thum
    Thai basil blooms
    Straw­berry blos­som
    Melam­podium Derby (vol­un­teer from last sea­son)
    Epi­den­drum hybrid, orange
    Salvia micro­phylla ‘Hot Lips’
    Ces­trum ele­gans
    Gail­lar­dia pul­chella (Blan­ket flower)
    Salvia nemorosa ‘Snow Hills’
    Rotheca myri­coides ‘Ugan­dense’ (But­ter­fly bush)
    Heliotrope
    Zin­nia vol­un­teer from 2007 sea­son, finally show­ing itself
    Salvia cacali­ae­fo­lia (Ivy-leaved sage) with cater­pil­lar
    Stre­litzia regi­nae (Bird of par­adise) from below
    Salvia sagit­tata (Arrow-leaved sage)
    Oxalis pur­purea

November 10 2008 05:28 pm | Categories: gardening • my garden • photography | Tags: • •

One Response to “monday floral quiz”

  1. Karen on 10 Nov 2008 at 7:23 pm #

    Wow, I had to look at your “About” to see where on earth you could be grow­ing this amaz­ing com­bi­na­tion in Novem­ber! I didn’t do very well with the quiz, but it was fun to try guess­ing! Funny to look at dif­fer­ent parts of the flow­ers with­out the foliage or other clues. I grow heliotrope and didn’t rec­og­nize it!

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