A Yellow Alcea & First Frost
Friday, July 28, 2017
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| Alcea rosea July 27 2017 |
Yesterday Thursday, Rosemary and I walked in Kitsilano Beach after
dinner (and after Rachel Maddow). It was a lovely late afternoon. We watched
some beach volleyball games and noticed two very large Magnolia grandifloras growing not far from the salt-water pool. In
spite of the nearby picnic barbecues we could note and enjoy their exquisite
scent.
Back home I scanned an Alcea rosea (Hollyhock) which is
growing in our little lane garden. For reasons that escape me the beautiful
flowers drop to the ground after a couple of days. The flower has no scent.
The
other scan is a bunch of flowers from Hosta ‘First Frost’. They exhibit that
elegant lavender colour that is inherited from a one off botanical coupling
between Hosta sieboldiana and Hosta tardiflora. One of the most elegant
of its many offsprings, called tardianas as a group, is Hosta ‘Halcyon’ and of course the variegated sport First
Frost and June.
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| Hosta 'First Frost' July 26 2017 |
