Dandelion
February 15th, 2008 by Brianna
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for February 2008. It’s my first time to participate!
The Christmas cactus continues to put out bright magenta blooms. There are purple and white pansy blooms and pink and red cyclamen blooms on the front porch right now, too.
But here’s my favorite bloom in our garden today:
Weeds can be so beautiful (especially when viewed through a macro tube).
February 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pm CST
Welcome, Brianna! So glad to have another Austin garden blogger! And glad you’re going to come run around with us in April. It should be a hoot. The dandelions are blooming in my yard, as well!
Thanks for the welcome–I’m looking forward to Spring Fling in April.
-Brianna
February 15th, 2008 at 10:23 pm CST
Up close, the dandelion is a pretty flower. I remember once talking to someone visiting Indiana from Arizona who asked me what all those pretty little yellow flowers were. I guess she had never seen a dandelion!
I’ve not seen any dandelions yet this year in my garden. It is still too cold, but it is only a matter of time.
Thanks for joining us for bloom day!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
Thanks for starting bloom day, Carol. Enjoy your dandelions when they appear.
-Brianna
February 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm CST
Well done, Brianna - your very first Bloom Day post! Dandelions are a favorite with my alpacas, so we’d be delighted to see them blooming here in PA. Congrats on your new blog, too. There must be something special in the soil in Austin to produce so many fanatical gardeners.
Austin is an awesome place to live. Lots of writerly types + lots of warm, sunny days = lots of garden bloggers, I suppose.
I visited your page and saw some nice photos of “the boys”. So cool that you have alpacas!
-Brianna
February 16th, 2008 at 12:49 am CST
I’ve just changed the time zone for comments. They were displaying as GMT, now they’re CST. It looks like older comments aren’t automatically updated though, so if the times appear wrong by six hours that’s why.
February 16th, 2008 at 1:25 am CST
Brianna, my first bloom day was in April and the only flower I had blooming was a dandelion. I posted it too!
Awesome
I’ll likely have more weed blooms to post about before long. I’m pretty sure I saw some henbit out there today in addition to the dandelions.
-Brianna
February 16th, 2008 at 5:18 am CST
I’m very fond of dandelions because they’re such a good bee-food…and I’ll actually be very happy to see them, though that won’t be for about two months or more. Sigh…you Austin Bloggers help keep me sane, though.
Didn’t know that dandelions were good bee-food–cool! There were lots of ants crawling on the one that I photographed this morning.
Glad that you’re enjoying all the Austin garden blogs. I know gardeners in colder locales are a little envious of our warm weather and earlier spring, but it’s been fun for me to see snow in photos from places that get cold enough to receive it.
-Brianna