Sunshine and blooming flowers! The best of all seasons. I'm not anywhere near a master gardener, but my parents were at first skeptical and then very impressed that my urban husband turned out to have a very, very green thumb.
What are some of your best strategies for adding summer beauty to your house, apartment, condo, campground-wherever you like to relax during this special time?
Okay. I admit to knowing next to nothing about the reasons my foxgloves do what they do. But Sue Scholz, in her "Buds & Blooms" column(Erie Times-News, June 27, 2009) shows foxgloves with lots of blooms instead of the ones I have with a single stalk growing.
ReplyDeleteShe calls this oddity 'fasciation'. Every time I think my vocab is really fairly extensive, I am smacked with yet another word I've never heard. Very humbling!
Fasciation is a condition that allows many stems to bind together as one thicker stem,thus creating many more blooms. She says that some flowers are prized for their ability to fasciate(Is that a word, or have I created a new verb?).
She gives the Coxcomb Celosia as an example-SIGH! You guessed it. I have no idea what that is either. Interesting, though, right?