Justin, I see you love Texas wildflowers and I love them too, they are so beautiful!!! Your picture are truly excellent and lovely, please keep posting.
Josephine.

Thank you Ann, Linda and Lynn!

Welcome, Justin, to the site, and to America! I think you will be an asset here! Your slide was wonderful, and I'm just learning to navigate the site, so we can learn together!

Finally ... I managed to put pictures of anemones. I'm sorry for the delay.
In fact, the writing took me a long time. It was a true homework.

Now, first I want to thank the public for two generous transfers. It was a real surprise. I immediately bought two badges.

My gratitude and two pictures. I hope you like it.


Salvia coccinea (in habitat) Sempervivum tectorum (in habitat)

frostweed said:Justin, I see you love Texas wildflowers and I love them too, they are so beautiful!!!

Audrey said: I think you will be an asset here!

Thanks Audrey. I hope to put as many good pictures.

Thanks again to everyone. And, of course flowers for you.



PS

Acorns are very good. Real good!

Ups! I hope not to upset if I ate some of them.

That is beautiful Justin, that field of flowers is great, and the squirrels are adorable.

Justin, now that you are learning to post your beautiful photos you can earn all the acorns you want and can eat as many as you want.

All you need to do to add your images is either go to the Plants tab above and search for "Salvia coccinea" and "Sempervivum tectorum". or you can enlarge each image in your post and click the link at the bottom "[Propose image for the plant database]" and then enter the name, click on the right entry and proceed.

Hello

I'm sorry for missing so much.
I was visiting my parents in Romania. Few months.
And after I come back, I moved a little to the East, in Victoria.
I spent two good years in Corpus Christi and I miss the city.
But so it is for beginning. Was the same feeling when I left from Lubbock.

This year I lost the occasion to take photo of spring flowers.
In Romania was a long and harsh winter. When I left the spring flowers just beginning and here the spring was almost past. And with my move and don't know the new place ... But I hope to recover next year.

The first tulips blooming in the garden of my parents. (in Romania). It's a variety that blooms early. Unfortunately I left before I see the others.
It was bright red, perfect.



This tulip has a history.
Many years ago, I got some tulip bulbs from an old man neighbor.
I always thought this old man was a passionate gardener.
He cultivates a few fruit trees. Vegetables. But almost all of his garden was full of these tulips. In perfect rows. In every spring tulips bringed this red color in his garden.
Vegetables are grown between rows of tulips. Very nice and rich crops.
The old man knew many things about gardening.
When he could no longer handle his garden, being too old, he moved to his son.

Several years we met again in town. He was very old.
We spoke about his garden. About his tulips. I asked about the garden's missing, considering that it was a passionate gardener.
He smiled at me and said slowly:
- Passionate gardener !?
Then ... after a pause he continued:
- Never ... Never I liked gardening. But this tulip ... I got five tulip bulbs in the early '50s. From someone ... from France. I've planted. Next spring, when I saw the flower, I love it. I could not stop ... to continue ...
..............

The above discussion took place about ten years ago. I did not meet him again.
I don't know the variety name of this tulip.
For today does not seem a big deal to get flowers, seeds or bulbs from France.
But in the 50s communist dictatorship conquered the power in the country. Came bad times ... Communication with the free countries had become practically impossible. How, and who sent him those tulip bulbs?
I don't know. Maybe a lost, dear friend ...

-

Again sorry for my absence.

Iustin

PS I will start to post some picture with insects to BugLife cubit

The tulip looks like 'Red Emperor'.........

A wonderful story, too.

Paul2032 said:The tulip looks like 'Red Emperor'.........

Dutchlady1 said:A wonderful story, too.

Thank you!
The bud:

Welcome back, Justin!~

And I loved the story of the old man, his garden, and the tulips. Maybe one day you can bring five bulbs of them back to the U.S. from Romania and continue his project and legacy, eh?

Best,
Shoe

Great story, Justin.
Welcome home.

Welcome home, Justin.

I didn't see any photos of 'Red Emperor' tulip in the ATP database, but here are some photos identified as that variety. They sure do look loike yours!

Wonderful story! I enjoyed seeing the tulips also. We aren't fortunate enough to grow tulips successfully in Central TX. There are some that naturalize, but the aren't as pretty as the ones in your photographs. Here we can only enjoy them for the season and kiss them goodbye.

Hello Justin,

I'm very new to the site (joined in May 2012), so I just saw your post. I was very lucky to spend two summers in Romania, in Translyvania, and stayed with the same wonderful family. Traveled quite a bit in Transylvania and Moldovia. I didn't learn much Romanian though, except "Ursus Negru vă rog" and I can sing the most popular song in Europe in 2004, "Dragostea din tei".

You're moving closer to where I live, Lake Jackson, Texas.

I love your photographs and the story about the old gardener. I heard many stories about Romania when it was under Communist rule.

Moşna, near Mediaș


I hope we hear from you often.

Wonderful story Justin, good to have you back.

That's really interesting, Monica! Really is a small world, eh?

Glad to see you back, Justin. I only just found this thread, so this is a very belated "Welcome!"
I love the flower in your avatar; but I didn't see anything in the database that looks even close! Is that a specific cultivar?

This is also a belated welcome, glad your here Be assured your English is way way better then most folks here Romanian.