Monday, October 08, 2007

Fresh From The Garden

I've been watching this beauty slowly unfurl for days. The day before yesterday it was a narrow green caterpillar peeking out of the sepals. Yesterday it was a narrow pale green tube.

This morning it was a limp, dangling thing. I've peeked at it intermittently all day and then all of a sudden this evening it was this fresh, perfect blossom.

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Incidentally, it is a brugmansia (or Angel's Trumpet). The sap or juice from any part of this plant is toxic, but the flowers are intensely fragrant in addition to being delicately beautiful.

2 comments:

geekette said...

Beautiful!

After the summer we've had, you still have live plants? I'm calling the city! *g*

Lystessa said...

No kidding! Hehe, I didn't water it at all either. I think it was on the verge of death when we got just a bit of rain at the beginning of fall. And then it went nuts making buds.