Our lawn is a good news/bad news story - the good news is that it's relatively green; the bad news is that most of the green is due to weeds - more specifically, an abundance of dollarweed. While I was pulling weeds out of the lawn a couple of days ago I grabbed my macro lens and captured some of the tiny but exquisite blooms I discovered. After filling 2 recycling buckets full of weeds from only a part of the backyard, however, and feeling the pangs of advancing age in my back from a few hours of bending over, I decided this was a job best left to the pros.
So today a truck arrived with a tank full of what I hope the weeds will come to regard as a witch's brew. While I won't mourn the demise of the dollarweed, I've discovered a few specimens of the 'nicer' weeds (see below and
here) doing nicely, tucked away in a flower bed (I did some checking but couldn't find a name for this one; anyone ?).
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60mm f5.6 1/50 sec ISO200)
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Well I know about as much about plants as I do about nuclear physics, so the white petaled flower looks like an Orchid to me, and the leaf next to it looks like a Venus Fly Trap that is closed having just ingested a meal. I do like the photo though. The only flowers I'll be seeing for a while are in stores or photos.
Rick good plan to leave it to the pros, ones who know what a weed is. I'd think that this was some type of an exotic flower, it's that pretty. Very nice macro shot.
I can't even imagine pulling weeds right about now, shoveling snow yes, pulling weeds, not a chance!
I don't know but it is much too pretty to be a weed! No witches brew for this beauty, I hope!
What an exquisite little flower.
Well Rick, if your lawn is full of Dollar weeds, then pick them and have a spending spree.lol
So beautiful! :D
This is a beauty. I dont know the name of it is either but she is stunning . Nice shot.
Good eye, Scott ! When I looked closely I thought too that the leaves to the left of the flower might be a venus fly trap (how weird is it to have THAT in the lawn ?).
LOL Darlene - your weeds are just waiting for the chance to sprout - as soon as that load of snow is off them ! See - there is a silver lining - no weeds for you to pull now.
Alas, too late Carolyn. However, I think a few survived in the flower bed.
Oh, oh, oh ... resorting to chemicals ... I don't know what to say! I thought it looked like an orchid too but couldn't find a wild orchid in Florida that looks like that on the web.
Thank you Susan - and to think it's a 'weed' !
Ha ha Stewart - I think they're somewhat devalued due to their overabundance - perhaps they can be renamed 'greenbacks' ! ;-)
Thank you Soraia !
I've found that 'weeds' can be some of the most wonderful flowers there are. Who decides they're weeds ? Thanks Lisa.
Weeds are a damage to the grass, but they usually have very tiny and beautiful flowers!
You've had a lynx eyes to find that flower there! How wonderful!
Have a good weekend, honey! And take care your back. :))
Many, many, many beijos.
Love.
Thank you Teca - I think I've learned to 'see' better over the past year; before that I might just have passed it off as a weed !
Have a wonderful weekend !
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