quaking and shaking

The morn­ing was warm so I went up onto the deck to soak up a lit­tle of the Jan­u­ary sun­shine. While I was up there I noticed the wind shak­ing the leaves of one of the pot­ted plants grow­ing up there.

This is Euphor­bia cotini­fo­lia, a shrub in the same genus as the exalted poin­set­tia and the lowly and weedy spurges. Species like the quak­ing aspen tree (Pop­u­lus tremu­loides) get all the glory for hav­ing foliage that quiv­ers in the wind, but I thought the maroon leaves on this plant were doing a pretty good job of it.

This turns out to have been my first YouTube video upload. John’s lit­tle dig­i­tal Insta­matic has a movie mode that lets you cap­ture mov­ing snap­shots. The qual­ity isn’t what the per­fec­tion­ist in me would like for it to be, but like other snap­shots I think you get the idea what’s being pho­tographed…

January 16 2009 | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • • • | 4 Comments »