Flowers Around The House

[neufer]

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<<The phrase stop and smell the roses is an admonition to slow down and enjoy life, to take the time to savor the beauty around you, to relax. The expression stop and smell the roses came into use in the 1960s and is a rephrasing of a sentiment found in an autobiography written by the golfer Walter Hagen: “Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” This passage was soon paraphrased as stop and smell the roses.>>

[saturno2]

Some time ago I was given a small cactus
about 7 cm high, it had a red hat.
A kitten voted him to the floor several times.
I put him outside my window in a porcelain cup
as a planter.
Well, there he became thin and grew a lot.
Today he is 50 cm. tall ( he no longer has the
red hat.)
I do not know what mutation gave this result.

[leahna]

Hello,

I am new to the forum and thought to present myself with a photo from my garden



Leah

[Ann]

Hello,

I am new to the forum and thought to present myself with a photo from my garden



Leah

Thank you, that's lovely!

Welcome to Starship Asterisk*!

Ann

[leahna]

Thank you

[orin stepanek]

that's a beautiful flower Leahna! &welcome to our Star ship!

[Ann]

Well, we are in for a snowstorm next week, and after that the weather will remain freezing so that we will be buried under snow for another week or so. But while we wait for winter to come back and bite us, I can't resist posting this picture of a female hazel flower getting ready to meet some male seeds (you're in for a long wait, sister).

And if you don't recognize the female flower of the hazel, it could be because the flower is so tiny. So I'm adding a picture of some male catkins next to a tiny little red female flower. Can you spot the flower?

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Hasselhänge och honblomma 1 mars 2023 Roskildevägen.jpg

Ann

[Fred the Cat]

Speaking of long waits, we just noticed our pineapple fruiting.

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Might be a while before the pizza.

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[Chris Peterson]

Well, we are in for a snowstorm next week, and after that the weather will remain freezing so that we will be buried under snow for another week or so. But while we wait for winter to come back and bite us, I can't resist posting this picture of a female hazel flower getting ready to meet some male seeds (you're in for a long wait, sister).

And if you don't recognize the female flower of the hazel, it could be because the flower is so tiny. So I'm adding a picture of some male catkins next to a tiny little red female flower. Can you spot the flower?

Okay... picky, picky. But the flower is not waiting for a male seed. There are male flowers (catkins) and female flowers (florets). The male flowers produce pollen, but cannot fertilize the female flowers on the same tree. Once fertilized by pollen from a different tree, the female flowers will develop fruits (hazelnuts) which contain a seed. The red bits visible on the female flower are styles... just one part of the flower. I do wonder about the bright red, though. Usually flowers have colored parts to attract pollinators, but hazels are wind pollinated, so they don't need to.

[Ann]

Well, we are in for a snowstorm next week, and after that the weather will remain freezing so that we will be buried under snow for another week or so. But while we wait for winter to come back and bite us, I can't resist posting this picture of a female hazel flower getting ready to meet some male seeds (you're in for a long wait, sister).

And if you don't recognize the female flower of the hazel, it could be because the flower is so tiny. So I'm adding a picture of some male catkins next to a tiny little red female flower. Can you spot the flower?

Okay... picky, picky. But the flower is not waiting for a male seed. There are male flowers (catkins) and female flowers (florets). The male flowers produce pollen, but cannot fertilize the female flowers on the same tree. Once fertilized by pollen from a different tree, the female flowers will develop fruits (hazelnuts) which contain a seed. The red bits visible on the female flower are styles... just one part of the flower. I do wonder about the bright red, though. Usually flowers have colored parts to attract pollinators, but hazels are wind pollinated, so they don't need to.

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Ann

[Ann]

Can't resist showing you these azalea buds in downtown Malmö:

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Oh, poor azalea! Can't help thinking about the old Swedish joke about the preacher who saw a drunk young man leave a bar, and the preacher shouted: "Young man, you are on the wrong path! Turn around!"

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I fear you are on the wrong path, sweet azalea! Winter will come back and bite you, so you should turn around, pull the covers over your head again and wait for spring to arrive!!

Ann