The Full Moon has come up again - time to dance like a Maenad under the silvery glow! And to soon join me will be Tuberose and Brickellia blossoms. They are just getting ready to open and release their fragrance into the chill night air - the vegetal excitement of it all!
By day there are Salvia splendens "Van Houttei" blossoms to beckon the approach of curious, nectar-hungry hummingbirds - splendid indeed, these tubes of crimson salvia-hood! Joining these flowers are Mexican bush sage (velvety purple flowers) and a myriad of Salvia serpyllifolia, S. chiapensis, S. "Hot Lips", S. involucrata, and S. melissodora blooms. The last of these bears pale lavender blooms with a fresh, sweet scent compared by many to grape soda - plus the leaves carry an unusual incense/herbal scent.
And let me not forget the Natives - Nemophila discoides and N. maculata are already blooming! Of course Trichostema lanatum has also put out a festive Autumnal spike of wooly purple/blue flowers as well.
I'll have to be posting pictures soon, since without them this is going to sound pretty meaningless to most of you!
Posted by jet (not that there was any doubt)
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