These come in a bunch of different colors, too. We have both purple and white ones at my family's house in PA. I don't think I've ever seen one up here!
The garden where I took this photo had white ones too. I first noticed these last year in *front* of the visitors' center at Plimoth Plantation (behind the visitors' center, I assume they make an attempt to eschew plantings not representative of the native flora of the early 17th century).
Is behind it the part with the section on the Wampanoag?
I assume the early settlers brought some plants over with them -- it would be kind of cool to have the gardens there be faithful about that. Like "this seemed like a good idea at the time, and became one of our first invasive species" or whatever.
No, it's along the path from the parking lot to the modern building where you pay admission.
I think there is a little garden with... maybe plants that the settlers mentioned in their journals? It's a triangular raised bed where several paths meet, next to the crafts center (that's the building where they demonstrate pottery and woodworking and blacksmithing), and it has tags to identify the plants.
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Date: 2011-05-08 10:45 pm (UTC)These come in a bunch of different colors, too. We have both purple and white ones at my family's house in PA. I don't think I've ever seen one up here!
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Date: 2011-05-09 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-09 05:17 am (UTC)I assume the early settlers brought some plants over with them -- it would be kind of cool to have the gardens there be faithful about that. Like "this seemed like a good idea at the time, and became one of our first invasive species" or whatever.
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Date: 2011-05-09 11:42 am (UTC)I think there is a little garden with... maybe plants that the settlers mentioned in their journals? It's a triangular raised bed where several paths meet, next to the crafts center (that's the building where they demonstrate pottery and woodworking and blacksmithing), and it has tags to identify the plants.