Belated bloom day scans

This morning, I finally had a chance to get out into the garden with enough light that I didn’t need a flashlight to see what was there. Were it not for the recent cold (seasonable, actually) weather, I thought I might actually be able to scan some things that most reasonable people would actually consider blooms. But all I found really were materials suitable for dried flower arrangements, which I usually put together over the Thanksgiving holiday, anyway.

So, this may be my final bloom day scan until March — unless we have another mild winter and we have snowdrops in January like last year.

Ornamental grass wrapped in thunbergia, lunaria, milkweed, ironweed, motherwort, bittersweet.

nov scan

Heuchera, clematis, milkweed(?) seeds that happened to drift in during composition.

nov scan

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4 thoughts on “Belated bloom day scans”

  1. I always like heuchera (is that ‘Green Spice’ btw?) but the one at the top is my favorite. It looks very “late fall” and really makes you appreciate the subtle differences in bleached/dead plant colors.

  2. I like the second scan with the Heuchera leaves (just to be different) but really because I like a little color in whatever I get.

  3. GOR-jus! I love that you scan what you find. This is an incredibly artful approach, and also quite specimen-y — a really inviting blend of art and science.
    And I’m with ya on the backed up frost pictures…I even took a bloom day pic and follow-up snow pics, but where are they?! ha.
    Thanks for the inspiration 🙂

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