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Nature's Inspiration Movie

http://www.flickspire.com/m/HealthierL433/NaturesInspiration -- Nature's Inspiration Movie: The photographs in this short video are from award-winning photographer, Ken Jenkins, and they are breathtaking. However, this video is much more than beautiful photographs! Peggy Anderson has compiled beautiful quotations from the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, and many others that truly capture the beauty of nature and solitude. Absolute must watch for nature lovers.
Showing posts with label speedwell. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

You all are very welcome

my pretty little crocuses and unknown friend. The crocuses are growing, among the grasses, here and there, in our backyard. I don't know how they got there. I can only guess that the previous owner of the house planted them in the flower-bed; the crocuses were dug-out by the squirrels and scattered out in the backyard.

I allow weeds in my garden for couple of reasons: what are weeds to me perhaps are great plants to someone else somewhere in this world. Dandelion are considered weed in the USA, but they are grown and eaten in France. I can't recognize plants and thus those weeds might be native plants. Many of these weeds have flowers and I see bees and butterflies flocking on them. Thus, I leave them in our garden. But, I don't allow weeds to grow in my vegetable bed, vegetable garden. However, these "unknown friends" are most welcome. I don't know what they are; online search is revealing that they are speedwell? They are creeping ground cover with beautiful, dainty, fragile flowers. The sky-blue flowers are tiny but intricate in every details; the four petals are stripped. The middle is white with a big yellow center. Even the small, rosette-like leaves, arranged in whorls look like flowers. The whole plant is covered with such beautiful flowers and looks exquisitely beautiful. The pictures are not doing any judgement. They can stay in my vegetable-plot, in my pots, everywhere in my garden. Can anyone recognize these plants?