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[42itous]

Another round of Name That Flower!

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[nosrednayduj]

We have the little purple jobs in our lawn. Every year we fight about whether to mow.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Cantcha just mow around 'em?

(kidding, just kidding)

[nosrednayduj]

I do! The lawn looks very silly. But then Ken gets annoyed with it when the grass and flowers are over a foot tall and chops it all down. I thought he should have PICKED the daisies before mowing them and put them in a vase.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

When I grow up* I want a lawn full of wildflowers and I'll never mow!

*I am grown up and now we own a lawn and the fact is that we're both allergic to tall grass, not mention afraid of ticks, and I like to walk across the lawn to get to my herb garden and my compost pile. Sigh.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Is the one in front from the same plant as the ones behind (or is that just the one you need identified).

Don't know what the one in front is but those look like lupins behind. As in "Your lupins or your life!"

[42itous.livejournal.com]

There are two different kinds of flower, and I don't know what either is. I thought the darker ones were delphiniums (delphinia?) but they don't match the google-image-search pictures. They're not the kind of lupines I know (Maine wildflowers).

[moechus.livejournal.com]

I just braved the rain to fetch my copy of Peterson's Field Guide to Wildflowers. Didn't really help. I still have no idea on the front flower and I am still inclined to think the back ones are lupins based on what I've seen in Maine and on the pictures in the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin). If not lupins, maybe hyacinths of some variety?

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Maybe the front one could be http://www.all-creatures.org/picb/wfshl-mallow-com.html

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Beatrice!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

For which one? I think that works well for the darker ones in the back, but perhaps something shorter for the foreground flower... Betsy?

:P

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I think you're right about this one. Common Mallow.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

The problem with lupines and hyacinths (and also delphiniums) is that they don't have that tendril that sticks out with the tiny curl-like thing on the end.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I think these are the same kind of flower (this was taken a couple of weeks ago):
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9kYHVyqm3zs/TBUSdYgPF6I/AAAAAAAAEEo/v3-4dEFkVEY/s512/IMG_8747.JPG

But I can't find anything that tells me what kind of flower dominates the landscaping outside the Stata Center.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

The purple doesn't seem to go to the top on these (unlike the recent picture). I'm still inclined to stick to lupins (I'm a stubborn SOB) but with not so much confidence as before).

Btw, after many months of enduring colored lines across the top of my TV screen, I finally got around to doing the heavy lifting and installing the TV you gave me. Beautiful picture. Many thanks. One thing, though. Did it have a remote? I can't remember and I can't find one (but I am capable of walking across the room to adjust the volume).

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I don't remember seeing a remote when we moved. It had been so long since we'd used the TV, I don't know when I last actually saw its remote. :/

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

If you'd like to time-share a small sheep, let me know.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

What a kind offer! And now I'm thinking of the wool -- but no, I'm afraid it's forbidden in the condo documents, and that sort of thing is difficult to change. :P