Saturday, March 8, 2008

We're moving on up!

Moonies in their big girl pots...



















More on the way...

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Friday, March 7, 2008

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

More Iris from the 'Gramma' patch (taken with camera phone)

In spite of some very nasty weather last night these beauties are in bloom.
Mom Nature Rules!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Slate Colored Juncos enjoying the afternoon...


Tulips (from the ground not the dead plant lady)


Oxalis in bloom....




Oxalis is the largest genus in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. Of the approximately 900 known species in the Oxalidaceae, 800 belong to Oxalis. Many of the species are known as Wood Sorrel or Woodsorrel. The genus occurs throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas; species diversity is particularly rich in tropical Brazil and Mexico and in South Africa.

These plants are annual or perennial. The leaves are divided into three to ten or more round, heart-shaped or lanceolate leaflets, arranged in a whorl with all the leaflets of roughly equal size. The majority of species have three leaflets; in these species, the leaves are superficially similar to those of some clovers, though clovers differ in having the leaflets not in a whorl, and of unequal size with two smaller side leaflets and one larger central leaflet. Some species exhibit rapid changes in leaf angle in response to temporarily high light intensity. The flowers have five petals, usually fused at the base, and ten stamens; the petal colour varies from white to pink, red or yellow. The fruit is a small capsule containing several seeds. The roots are often tuberous, and several species also reproduce vegetatively by production of bulbils, which detach to produce new plants.