Tag: Macro Monday

  • Macro Monday

    Macro Monday

    This is a bloom on the Morning Glory that I featured in an FOTD post last week. This bloom caught my eye as the colors are so beautiful. I thought it deserved a photo and a post of its’own.

  • Macro Monday

    This dandelion is from my garden not from China.

  • Monday Minstrel: Coltsfoot

    Monday Minstrel: Coltsfoot

    When is a weed not a weed? Many years ago I went to China with a group of horticulturalists led by well known plantsman Roy Lancaster. He always used to say that a weed was only a weed when the plant was growing somewhere we did not want it to grow. When out walking we…

  • Macro Monday: Milkweed

    Macro Monday: Milkweed

    The milkweed is much prized by the Monarch butterfly and I am familiar with how it looks in the summer. But this past week I found it in a different state while walking on the Oak Ridges Trail.This is how it looks after surviving the Canadian winter. And here is the seed pod after it…