Another wildflower in winter
Gulf vervain (Verbena xutha) west of Morado Circle on December 25, 2018.
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what a joy it must be to discover these
ksbeth
January 26, 2019 at 4:58 AM
Especially as I found it close to home in a place I hadn’t seen this species before.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 5:19 AM
Such a lovely lavender blue.
Heyjude
January 26, 2019 at 9:04 AM
Not a color you’d see outdoors in Cornwall at this time of year, I dare say.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 11:00 AM
Well, actually…
There was a similarly coloured Salvia flowering in a nearby garden on Wednesday. At least I think it is a Salvia!!
Heyjude
January 26, 2019 at 11:14 AM
I stand corrected. I hadn’t heard about Cornwall becoming a Texan territory.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 11:16 AM
Haha… I notice I too got an echo!!
Heyjude
January 26, 2019 at 5:45 PM
It seems the idea reverberated.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 5:59 PM
😀 😀
Heyjude
January 26, 2019 at 6:07 PM
There’s a lot to enjoy in this photo: the color of the background, the “echo” of that second stalk, and the diagonal placement. So often vervains are shown vertically, and your unusual composition really increases the interest. I’ve found a couple of species of vervain right through December and January; they’re tougher than I realized.
shoreacres
January 26, 2019 at 9:05 AM
You’ve used exactly the same word that had occurred to me: echo. I thought of putting it in my text but decided to wait and see if it came up in comments. You didn’t disappoint. As for a vertical vervain image, I hesitated between this picture and a tall, narrow one of a nearby stalk that also had flowers on it. While each has its advantages, I settled on this one because I find it better artistically, in large part due to the “echo” and the diagonality.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 11:09 AM
Such a beautiful color! A nice find on a winter’s day.
Lavinia Ross
January 26, 2019 at 11:56 AM
A week or two later even more wildflowers made their appearance; I counted half a dozen species. Fewer are out now, at least in the places I’ve been, but it shouldn’t be long.
Steve Schwartzman
January 26, 2019 at 1:37 PM
I think I would do well in your climate in winter. I would love those flowers. In summer, not so much.
montucky
January 26, 2019 at 9:29 PM
The may well be as many people who dislike the half-year of summer here as the half-year of winter in Montana.
Steve Schwartzman
January 27, 2019 at 4:40 AM
Very pretty!!
norasphotos4u
January 27, 2019 at 5:59 PM
Dainty little flowers, aren’t they?
Steve Schwartzman
January 27, 2019 at 8:36 PM
I just enjoyed Linda’s Scarlet Pimpernel and now your Gulf Vervain. Spring inches closer here but still months away. Nice to see flowers from elsewhere.
Steve Gingold
February 2, 2019 at 6:37 PM
This flowering vervain was a carry-over from the fall. A couple of posts later I showed an anemone, which is one of the first flowers of the new year, beginning in January and continuing into “official” spring. Botanical spring begins early here.
Steve Schwartzman
February 2, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Nice. Sandy setting?
melissabluefineart
February 14, 2019 at 8:57 AM
No, not particularly sandy, but rather the limestone-underlain hilly terrain in my part of Austin.
Steve Schwartzman
February 14, 2019 at 9:37 AM
Ah ok.
melissabluefineart
February 14, 2019 at 11:31 AM