…from the garden…after the rain…
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Sunday Softies….
A Prayer Like Gravity
Mundus vult decipi
…from the garden…after the rain…
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The garden of something ineffable here. Well done!
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You’ve recorded lots of intriguing shapes here. Your first picture and two adjacent to it appear to show some kind of smartweed (genus Polygonum, also called knotweed). The third row seems to be passion flowers.
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I’ll take your word on that first plant–It’s a bit of a weed around here, but we let it go mostly, in nooks and crannies. I love its subtle, subdued beauty (my kind of thing). The passionflower on the other hand–quite the opposite. It is Rococo to the smartweed’s subtlety. It seems so alien, yet it (this species, anyway, Passiflora incarnata) is native to Missouri–a fact I still find hard to believe. Though we’ll have to see if this one makes it through the winter….
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I agree that smartweed is subtler than a passionflower, but I still find much to like in it. The ones I see in Austin have interesting and colorful joints in their stems (which I’ve photographed several times lately). The leaves have a tendency to turn colors as they die, while sometimes curling into a spiral at the tip, as shown in the second picture at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/tuna. You may check to see if your species behaves the same way.
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I definitely prefer subtle over flashy, so Smartweed sounds like my kind of weed. Plus it’s smart….
Thanks for the tip. That rings a visual bell. I will definitely pay more close attention to it as the season progresses.
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The smart in smartweed refers to the fact that at least one species can cause a person’s skin to smart.
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Wow, so beautiful…the soft, dark approach creates a nice mood. Your love of and respect for veggies sings beautifully here. It’s fun to see the Smartweed, a rampant weed in New York that I, too, always appreciated. I don’t see it much here, if at all. I could never believe Passionflowers were native Midwest flowers either. I’ve only seen them in gardens. How nice that you grow the native one. Just gorgeous, Johnny!!!
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Here we are still…..August 29…..I must have been DEEP under my rock….
Thank you–
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The flowers have faded, but not the flowering. 🙂
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Such beautiful shots! I’ve never seen or heard of smartweed before. And I thought poison oak, summac, and ivy were the only poison plants. It’s so nice to learn something new!
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Thank you so much. Insure that it’s really “poison”, per se. just irritating perhaps? Don’t know for sure but it grows all over hereabouts and I can’t say I’ve ever heard of anyone having a reaction. But then, I don’t react to poison ivy so….I may not be the one to give a proper report….
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You’re so welcome. I know lots of people who don’t react to poison ivy. And I’m so jealous! Lolol
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