Comments on: Bloomery 2008

By: Musing about the lackof blloms… | Coffee Muses

Musing about the lackof blloms… | Coffee Muses — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:58:54 +0000

[...] Fred First is asking for pictures of Roadside Bloomery again this year. That started me to thinking about the fact that the heat and drought this year [...]

By: Kerri

Kerri — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:48:27 +0000

Love that last shot Fred! Possibly a new shot for a summer notecard series????

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:51:13 +0000

I’d send a picture, but our roadside flowers in AZ are gone by late April!

By: fred

fred — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:12:30 +0000

Small blue flowers are chichory, see http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2007/06/25/slow-roads-are-hard-to-find/#more-317 from last year’s Fragments On The Backroads

By: kenju

kenju — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:09:35 +0000

What are the small bluish ones mixed in with the Queen Anne’s Lace? Those are the ones I most associate with your area.

NC roads have had the most amazing display of poppies, lilies, cannas and daisies this summer!

By: fred

fred — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:37:34 +0000

Hey Beth!

Burke County (Morganton) NC where we lived for 7 years was not so richly blessed. And Alabama, my home state: nothing at all. And I know Richie Bell at UNC worked hard at reintroducing native plants to the interstate right of ways, but in such an un-natural setting, they never seemed very natural to me.

So. Send me a picture of wildflowers with a snippet of roadway in them, I’ll post to the bloomery gallery. I’d love to find crimson bee balm nearby–got a shot of it growing along a split rail fence many many years ago that was a long time favorite–lost somewhere on a faded 35 mm slide.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:29:39 +0000

As a loyal North Carolinian, Fred, I feel compelled here to defend North Carolina’s roadside honor. We have most of the flowers you listed blooming by the roadside where I live. The other day, it took my breath away to see a natural roadside display of red bee balm, Joe Pye weed, Queen Anne’s lace, chicory, and a late blooming of summer phlox. You should drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway up by Craggy Gardens sometime–the roadside bloomery is incredible, especially with the backdrop of blue mountains.

By: Rob Paterson

Rob Paterson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:20:18 +0000

I am not mowing the back 40 this year – I have been amazed by the cycle of blooms. This lawn is really a meadow with a plethora of cycling new blooms – lovely