Imagine how my wine connoisseur friend, John, feels when he’s going through his cellar and finds a fabulous bottle he had totally forgotten he had; (I’m fairly certain this happens a lot.) or how Marilyn feels when she is doing her annual sorting and purging of the shoes, (there is only so much room under a king sized bed) and she finds the missing pair of Stuart Weitzman embellished slingbacks. (I have NO idea what those are.) Those examples pale in comparison to how I feel when I find a really cool plant in my garden that I had nothing to do with. It’s a little gift from nature, and I am so grateful!
The last weekend in January I was doing some chainsaw work in the woods, and I noticed these. The leaves are green on the front and purple on the back. Some had more distinct veining than others.
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In another area I found these. They are the same, only different. The top of the leaf is spotted, and the color has more gray in it. The bottom side is a darker purple.
Here’s the best part!! I found out these are cranefly orchids, Tipularia discolor. They are a native woodland wildflower. If you think you might have some of these, look for them now, and mark the site. The leaves go dormant long before the flower stalks emerge in July. I’m going to try and transplant a little to a location right next to the path.
There is a great picture of this plant in bloom at Dave’s Garden website. I’m trying to get permission to post the picture here, but in the meantime, you can follow this link:picture of cranefly ordhid in bloom
Hi Peggy! Hooray for serendipity! Ben and I had one of those moments last week when we came home from a long day of work and errands, tired and hungry. I had been racking my brain all the way home, trying to figure out what I had in the fridge or freezer that could be made quickly. We opened the door to the intoxicating aroma of roast beef – somehow, with everything we had going on, we’d forgotten that I put that in the crock pot that morning. We just laughed. And then devoured it. 🙂
One of our neighbors came by with a little coffee tree seedling in a plastic pot for us. Apparently he’s been cultivating them for 40 years and likes to pride himself on having the largest coffee plantation in Alabama (which is confined to a corner of his little backyard greenhouse)! We have it in a sunny window for now, until we figure out where it should live. It will need to stay in a pot so it can come inside for the winter.
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