Macro photo shown Wordless Wednesday - see below for the full photo.
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
One person guessed that the macro photo that I posted yesterday for Wordless Wednesday could be a flower. Most of the guesses were for various textiles.
As you can see, it was a flower, a Cock’s Comb. The full bloom is over 3 times the size of my hand. The plant is next to my front steps and draws comments from everyone who visits. The blooms continue growing until the weather gets cold so they are really enormous by then. There are hundreds of seeds on the throat of each bloom and they look like poppy seeds. I scrap some off each fall and scatter them for the next spring’ plants as well as giving them to friends.
Orange Zinnia with fuchsia center.
