or, as the booklet said, Whats Blooming Where in Teneriffe.
cheers
SallyE
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: again Re: Flower Plant name query
> 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
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> star!
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