Oh. I know those flowers. Never knew their name, tho.
At 08:05 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks, Anny and Mark, for your vigourous plant/flower searches.
> I am sorry to say, in this case, you are not winners.
>
> A friend in local horticulture came up with both accurate photo and name:
>
> Pride of Madeira
>
> for picture and furhter details go to:
>
> http://daviswiki.org/Pride_of_Madeira
>
> Normally a kind of dense green leaf shrub, it's flourishing in
> bloom and beautiful this time of year in coastal California.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote: No, I think I
>know what they are but I never knew their name. They are tall,
>over one meter, is that right? And they come in different colors, all shades
>of blue but also rose and pink. They might be of the orchid family because
>each tiny flower (of the bigger bunch) has a similar pattern, and they stand
>tall toward the sky. I found on the net some blue flowers of the ginger
>family but I cannot find the page any more.
>
>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
> > blue bottlebrush? http://thefragguys.com/img/Surbpurpleacro.jpg
> >
> > At 05:40 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
> > >Not it, but thanks. These flowers spiral bunch in the manner of a,
> > >haha, toilet brush. (from wide diameter at base of many close
> > >together flowers, to one at the top.
> > >
> > > Stephen
> > >http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> > >
> > >Mark Weiss wrote: There is a candelabra flower.
> > >http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/brunswigorient.htm. Failing that,
> > >scan in a photo of the offending plant and maybe we can do a group
> > >hunt (and even find some derelict easter eggs).
> > >
> > >It occurred to me the other day that agribusiness has missed a bet by
> > >not marketing its eggs painted this time of year. Me, I prefer bunny
> > >stew for easter.
> > >
> > >Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >At 05:14 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
> > > >I've got a poem going that, currently, suffers from 'nominal fallacy'!
> > > > I don't know if 'nominal fallacy' was on that original list with
> > > > 'pathetic fallacy' and all the others. But I have been wrong twice
> > > > so far on getting the name right on this plant/flower combination
> > > > and I don't want to risk further embarrassment.
> > > > First I put 'lavender blue' pedals on a bottle-brush plant. Only
> > > > to find it was not a bottle-brush because it was pointed out that
> > > > such plants only have 'red spiky flowers'.
> > > > Second time through I put 'lilac blue' flowers a ceanothus plant.
> > > > Which is accurate to such a plant, but it was not the plant. Thank
> > > > you, Google, for the correcting image!.
> > > > This morning I found the plant with other such plants - some had
> > > > raspberry and others had deep blue petals (on vertical 6 to 12 inch
> > > > spiral, flowering 'branches '.) I asked a passerby. Ten minutes
> > > > later she came back in her car. "My husband says it called a
> > > > 'Candle of Madera' ." Indeed the multiple flowering plant looked
> > > > like an inverted candelabra.
> > > > However, nowhere to be found on Google!
> > > > I and my poor, nominally compromised poem will appreciate an
> > > > accurate report from a knowledgeable green thumb - if there is one
> > > > on the premises?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance, and, as a reward, I will be happy to send a
> > > > copy of the repaired poem, even post the corrected version on my
> > > > blog. I would post a jpeg of the culprit on my blog, but the
> > > > worn-out camera went in for much need repair.
> > > >
> > > > Honestly, perhaps like Spicer, I am trying real hard to put the
> > > > real flower in a real poem!
> > > >
> > > > Stephen V
> > > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >
>
>
>
>--
>Anny Ballardini
>http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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>http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
>star!
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