Name that flower...
I cannot remember what this is called. It looks like giant Rose Mallow. I cut it at a local flower farm, for the wedding, and when my florist saw it (when she helped me load more flowers into my car) she said it's very hard to get and was pleased I'd found some. So, if no one here knows what it is, I'll ask the florist when I bring back her plastic tub this week. :-)
Howard would be first!
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, listener, I thought it *was* a rose mallow.
Here ya go: http://www.gardensplendor.com/hafn/hibiscus_kopperking.html
ReplyDeleteHeh. Just pureed my last zucchini. (For freezing) Now I'm afraid to go up to the garden. But I have to. Scotty left me some strawberry plants to plant. I'm toast.
ReplyDeletePuddle, please may I steal your rainbow photo for a YouTube? If so, how would you like to be credited?
ReplyDeleteSo, that's what a hibiscus looks like? Don't think I've ever seen one before.
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ReplyDeleteCat, not my pic: I stole it from weather underground, that woman's handle is: pegpics. . . .
ReplyDeleteHey, Renee! How's by you?
ReplyDeleteHanging in there. I did finally get a touch of good news--will be teaching something called the Freshman Seminar this fall. Not nearly as many hours as I would normally have teaching psychology, but glad not to be totally unaffiliated with the college just as Son starts his first class there.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear you'll be teaching, Renee! If it's not for son's college, who is it for? And I'm intrigued! What does Freshman Seminar cover? Can we come? :-)
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's a Hibiscus. The flowers are just a little larger than roses not "the size of dinner plates" as your link describes. Also they didn't come off a 3-4' tall bush but were individual flowers growing out of the ground! It also doesn't have that characteristic puffy stamen that Hibiscus has. It's a softer looking flower overall than the gaudy Hibiscus. I'll have to take one with me tomorrow when I stop to see the florist! :-)
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It actually IS the same school, but not in the psych department. The class is something like "How to be a College Student". I remembered that they guy who teaches religious ed at my church used to teach psych and now teaches that, and set about pursuing that option. Kind of an interesting story, which I will have to share when I can. But I *have* to do karaoke tonight. It's one of the things that seems to help compensate for the more crappy aspects of my life. The crappiness has raised my stress level recently, which in turn has manifested as physical symptoms. Basically I've felt too sick to make myself go out and do something that makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteToday, for the first time in a couple weeks, I feel like I might be able to manage it, so I need to take off now.
Oops---meant to share this picture before logging off.
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http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=allys
Have a good time. Well deserved. ♥
ReplyDeleteHave fun, Renee! I'd love to hear about what you end up singing! :-)
ReplyDeleteDad took one look and said, "Rose of Sharon." He did concede that he might be wrong...
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ReplyDeleteNope. That also grows on a bush not as individual flowers. Also, this flower has multiple petals the way a conventional Rose does, not one round row of them like the Rose of Sharon. Besides, had the florist called it a Rose of Sharon, THAT I could have remembered! LOL!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Puddle, but don't feel comfortable asking a stranger.
ReplyDeleteMaybe listener has a photo suitable to go with "Over the Rainbow?"
Rose of Sharon is actually a type of Hibiscus.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting so curious!
When I turned the computer back on about 10:00, the Internet was out and it stayed out for an eon and a half. OK, so it was really maybe more like twenty minutes, but it *felt* like an eon and a half. I hate not being connected! It makes me feel so cut off and lost and somehow diminished. Guess I'm a true junkie.
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