Speaking of flowers, the jasmine in the kitchen is blooming. You can smell it when you walk by. It has about a hundred flowers. It's.....happy.
We bet on which bud is going to open first. I think it's because of the kind of homes we were raised in.
The Rhododendron fargessi out front is in full bloom. Shell pink and white trusses, about the size of a Texas grapefruit. (Those are those big ones.) This fargessi is getting big; I think it's taller than I now. It will become a small tree, if we don't move and someone blades the yard. I have another, even larger, but a different form of the same species and blooming after this one is done, which is way nice. Smells wonderful ~ like good fresh bubblegum. Clean and pure but...bubblegummy. Finer than a Chanel bubblegum. Number two's leaves are smoother, rounder, with more clearish-blue translucence to them. Its flowers are cast in ultra graceful truss arrays. They "hang" from the center, but weightlessly, like tubes of a heavenly PA system.
They're from China. Discovered by the Reverend Fargessi, in about 1868 or 76 I think.
He did something useful.
Very useful, as a matter of fact. Beautiful. He spread a beautiful thing around the world.
And oh - R moupinense, with big semi-tropical like flowers, like the Australia ones, is about to open.
Want to bet on which one? |
