Wow Rick!
I wish I had known about your plant sale when I lived out there--I might have stayed! Do you know anyone who wants to love a little hobby farm half as much as I did?? I really need to sell that place as soon as possible...but this is not the place for that...
growitall said:Silene petersonii Re. catching them at their best, I find that Silene flowers are often fully open after the sun has gone past late in the afternoon/early evening - during the full sun, they are often sort of wilty, half-opened looking.
Seriously, I tried--that pic of petersonii was taken at 5:38 pm; somewhere there is a later and better one where the side petals are showing but it's lost right now. I'll have to try again next year
the 'ugly' one, after the sun passed, about 7:30pm, and this probably is the best flower pic that I got
here is something cuter (to me anyway) that I found hiding today
little baby spriglet of Daphne cneorum 'Blackthorn Triumph'--last year it was a single spriglet with about 8 leaves and I am thrilled that it survived, branched, grew more leaves, and made some flowers--in about a decade, if all goes well, this thing might be a shrublet.
It is so hard to leave adequate space for my aspiring shrublets...
