Bloom

Hothouse
Vast array
Specialized cells

Fruiting, rare & tropical plants for sale at Logee’s.

“Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Branching stems
Composite flower heads
Appearing late summer

The black-eyed Susan is a common flower that exhibits a great deal of variety.

“In the species, the flowers are up to 4 inches in diameter, with yellow ray florets circling conspicuous brown or black, dome-shaped cone of many small disc florets.” – Floridata

Top heavy
Involucre bracts
Herbaceous perennial

Successful cultivation in a sunny micro-climate.

“If we consider the changing object at a certain essential moment, at its apogee, we may say that there it just touches its intelligible form.” – Henri Bergson

Evident compulsion
Chromatic tones
Active aspect

Flowers come and go, marking the passage of time and responding to seasonal forces.

“Here was a flower strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too.” – Thomas M. Disch

Night snow
Winter’s last gasp
Rapidly melting

A late spring snowstorm creates interesting juxtapositions.

“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin

Seasonal commencement
Papilionaceous flowers
Redbud distribution

Back in the Flint Hills, spring flowers mark the flow of time.

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” – William Shakespeare

Indian paintbrush
High desert flower
Brash scarlet red

Bright signs of life in a sun-baked landscape attract attention.

“The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form.” – Chuck Palahniuk

Bright red single blooms
Contrasting yellow stamen
Formed during the winter

This compactly growing shrub located in the sandy front yard has glossy dark green leaves and December flowers.

“Shrubs like the yuletide camellia are the real foundation of the landscape.” – Norman Winter

Practical realism
Analogous continuity
Dialectical duration

Blossoms and optics converge agreeably.

“When the image is new, the world is new.” – Gaston Bachelard

Structuring system
Genetic axis
Sequence of stages

An introduced species is blooming next to a man-made pond in a large housing development.

“One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” – Susan Wittig Albert