Loose Leaf Notes

Fantastic!!

Oh, these flowers are wonderful. I love the sunflower!
~S

Ah, this is wonderful!

I really like the ROLE MODEL!!
Yellow really brightens up everything. What is the name of #4? I have them growing in my yard too.

Nice pictures. I plan on reading your blog daily now that Joe told me about it!

I believe number 4 is called Sedum.

David K. from Connecticut? Nice to hear from you!

Beautiful flowers and great captions!

Beautiful pictures -- I am missing flowers this year in Chicago. Between the early draught and the cicadas, nothing much came into full bloom except the early flowers like tulips. This made me miss my roses, which just won't flower this season. There's always next year!
thanks for the great photos!

My students know my love for flowers and if any of them showed up with these blooms it would be hard to not deem them teachers' pets!

Stunning! Seems you, like me, have a passion for photographing flowers :-)

Ah, back to school - shopping for the in-clothes, worrying over who will like me?

The cliques, the teachers' pets, the fresh-faced freshmen.

You have captured them all in this delightfully colorful and timely post. Your creativity shines once again, thanks for brightening the day!

You always take such beautiful photos! The teacher's pet, #6, is one of my favorites. We used to have them growing down beside (almost IN) the mountain stream that flowed through our back yard. Was that plant near the water, Colleen? If I'm not mistaken, it's a cardinal flower.

See photos in these places:
http://www.ontariowildflower.com/images/cardinal_flower.jpg

Click on "cardinal flower" on this page:
http://www.ontariowildflower.com/lakeedge.htm#cardinal%20flower

This is a photo from Georgia:
http://www.soque.org/Wildflower/Cardinal%20Flower2.JPG

The Cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis, blooms in low moist areas, marshes and wet meadows, and along creeks and streams. Cardinal flower is easy to propagate from seed. The seed should be collected during September and October after the seed pods turn brown and dry. The very small seeds should be put in a seed tray with moist potting soil and refrigerated for 5 weeks. After refrigeration place them in a window with good southern exposure. They'll be ready to plant in the garden in early spring.
~~~ info from http://www.soque.org/Wildflower/Wildflower_Page.htm

I wish I had some of the seeds from those plants I used to have. Ah, but the plants stayed put when I sold the house.

Bonnie, I see your an avid researcher too. I tried briefly to find out the name of that Parkway flower, the only one in the batch that is wild. It was growing across the dirt road from a creek near my house. And I checked, late summer is the bloom time. So I would say Cardinal Flower is the one. I'll check back for seeds.

Are you gonna start a flower blog?!

Flower blog? Uhm, I'll think about it ... lol ... long enough! Nope, no flower blog. I'm a word person ... and also a wordy person ... but I know too few flowers to do that. You, on the other hand, could do the photos while I write the words while we BOTH do the research for a coffee table book of wildflowers! Yay, for us! Let me know when we should have our first meeting to plan the book's content.

Bonnie, you have way too much energy for me to keep up with...and so many blogs!

Beautiful.

Great pictures and great titles!