This variety is called ‘Osteospermum’ or ‘Soprano Purple’ mum — or at least it’s the name we found for it on the web. True mums and pansies are natural choices for cooler nighttime temperatures, so this is now in a pot in the patio with some smaller daisies and stuff. More purple buds are coming out soon.
On our weekly visit to the flower concession, I came up with this nice combination of irises and tulips and promptly photographed them. These look so nice with the complimentary colors and graceful lines under the soft illumination. This beautiful arrangement (if I do say so, myself) looks lovely on the dining room table.
At the end of our route through the supermarket, we generally stop at the floral concession to pick out some flowers. Last Friday, we picked out these beauties for our dining room table centerpiece. They are called Dark Lulu roses. The sticker from the florist’s wrapper says:
“Red/White bi-color variety with medium size bloom, medium petal count and opens into a teacup shape.”
Unusually cold overnight temperatures didn’t seem to phase the geraniums growing in the south flowerbed where sunlight is available most of the short winter days. The little buds seen here will emerge in this almost-indecent shade of red within the next few days.
We’re enjoying our weekend getting ready for the Christmas holidays. This bright red Amaryllis is one of (soon to be) eight blossoms on this bulb. I’ll have a picture later of all eight when they come out. What a brilliant display of Christmas red!
We had occasion to visit our local home improvement emporium today. Even when we’re there for another purpose, I always like to see what’s going on in the garden section. What else but poinsettias? A sea of red with green undertones. One of these beauties became mine and sits on the dining room table (until we move it to accommodate the Christmas tree next weekend, that is).
We spent most of the day today attending a gun show in nearby Orange County at the fair grounds. We didn’t have much to blog about since there were no cameras allowed in the show. But it was a lot of fun and we plan on going to the next one in February.
I did take a picture of this nice flower in the garden out front yesterday, so I’ll put it up here and tell you a few words about it.
Cascading down from a stalk extending out of a low cabbage-like succulent, these petite red flowers attract late-autumn hummingbirds and look very pretty in the flowerbed. Each little bell is about 3/4 inch (2 cm) long and the stalks are about 3 feet (1 m) in length.
These have been blooming every November for several years now; click here to see a close-up photo I took a year ago.