Category: Flora

Pollen

On By CarynIn Flora

Spring is not a happy time in this Texas household. Everyone is upping their allergy medicines, and buying stock in Kleenex. It’s pollen season.

Photo description: pollen making a normally black vehicle yellow, the letters “achoo” written with a finger in the layer of pollen

Sniff.

Unusual clover

On By CarynIn Flora, Garden
Photo description: three-leaf clover with almost hour-glass shaped leaves

In looking for four-leaf clover, I found a different kind of leaf in another patch in the front yard that has inverted curves on the sides of the leaf, which make the leaves look hour-glass shaped. Clover is a good nitrogen fixer for soil and good companion for grass. And makes for interesting discoveries.

Clover

On By CarynIn Flora

Here is another opportunity for finding four-leaf clovers! My answer in the second picture.

Photo description: patch of clover in my front yard
Photo description: same patch of clover with seven purple circles on four-leaf clovers

Clover gazing

On By CarynIn Flora

Here are two more opportunities for clover gazing. (Hint, think squares instead of triangles when looking for four-leaf clovers.)

Photo description: closeup of a patch of clover
Photo description: same patch of clover as above, with a five-leaf clover circled in red, and a four leaf clover circled in blue

Let’s go again.

Photo description: same patch of clover a couple days later
Photo description: same picture as above with the five-leaf clover circled in red, and four-leaf clovers circled in blue, purple, and yellow

Happy gazing.

Terrarium redo

On By CarynIn Flora, Garden

The mossarium I made in a case was not doing well. I tried adding a plant light and it was too much for some of the moss. After six months of steady decline, I decided to clean out the container and put in something else. I have a young African violet that I received from a friend that currently fits.

Photo description: small African violet sitting in a leaf shaped tea light saucer on a variety of rocks and stones inside a closed glass terrarium