In Florida we’ve been suffering overnight temps down to the 40s-50s. It’s 72 now. How will we manage?
There are still flowers. Florida snow is Florida pusley aka Mexican clover. It carpets many yards and road medians. What’s the white stuff I see in that pick?
Meanwhile in Oz we are entering the season of heatwaves, drought and bushfires here and my Bursaria spinosa‘s or Christmas Bushes in common parlance (https://malleedesign.com.au/a-must-have-in-your-habitat-garden-bursaria-spinosa/ ) are just starting to flower and my Xerochryusm bracteata is flowering with triple daisy infloresences blooming quite nicely still..
StevoRsays
PS. What species / genus are those finished flowerheads please?
Look a bit plantain-y (Ribgrass-y) or lavender-ish maybe but well outta my (South Aussie bushland) jurisdiction here.
brightmoonsays
I think those are coneflowers. I’ve got some yellow ones on my balcony and it just got too dry for them around August even though I was watering them . I think these are the purple ones .
brightmoonsays
The genus is Echinacea. There’s a few garden species .
uusuzannesays
You should leave those tops on. They’re a good source of food for the birds all winter. (Sorry if you already know this)
I didn’t realize that this song was remade by Peter, Paul, and Mary after the original by Marlene Dietrich.
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
was ist geschehen?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Mädchen pflückten sie geschwind
Wann wird man je verstehen
wann wird man je verstehen?
prairieslugsays
pretty sure its a Rudbeckia, either fulgida or hirta
billseymoursays
Tethys @8: According to Wikipedia (not an authoritative source, but I’m inclined to believe it this time because it’s all matters of fact), the song was written by Pete Seeger in 1955. There have been lots of covers, including by Peter, Paul and Mary on their first album, and in French by Marlene Dietrich, both in 1962.
(I had thought that it was a Malvina Reynolds song, so I learned something.)
Kevin Karplussays
Here in California we are finally out of fire season (no big blazes within a hundred miles of me this year, I think) and the rainy season is starting. The summer flowers are over, and the winter ones are still waiting for more rain. The hillsides are beginning to turn green as new grass grows through the brown and yellow grass left over from last year.
StevoRsays
@9. prairieslug & 5. brightmoon : Thanks.
mizzisays
Deutschlandfunk Kultur says, Pete Seeger was inspired bei russian literature and a ukrainian song:
“Marlene Dietrich sang „Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind“ – die deutsche Version von „Where Have All The Flowers Gone“ des US-amerikanischen Songwriters Peter Seeger. Nur wenige wissen wohl, dass zentrale Passagen aus diesem Song einem ukrainischen Volkslied entstammen.
Vorbild: Das Wiegenlied im Roman „Stiller Don“
Seeger kam über den Umweg der Literatur zu diesem Volkslied. Er hatte Sympathien für sozialistische und kommunistische Ideen. In den 1950er-Jahren las er den sowjetischen Roman „Der stille Don“. Dieses Buch erzählt vom Ersten Weltkrieg, vor allem aber vom Bürgerkrieg nach der Oktoberrevolution. Es ist ein Mammutwerk mit 2.000 Seiten.
Der Held ist ein Donkosake, der auf beiden Seiten kämpft, ein scheiternder Held. Der Autor Michail Scholochow erhielt dafür übrigens 1965 den Literatur-Nobelpreis… “
chuckonpiggottsays
Echinacea or rudbeckia. The birds should love the seed heads. Especially goldfinches. I used to grow them. The little guys would hang on the stalk and eat away.
In Florida we’ve been suffering overnight temps down to the 40s-50s. It’s 72 now. How will we manage?
There are still flowers. Florida snow is Florida pusley aka Mexican clover. It carpets many yards and road medians. What’s the white stuff I see in that pick?
Well that;s a good ole hippy song hear – Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Live in Sweden 1968) sung by Pete Seeger
Almost like this totally unrelated & later classic Rip Rip Woodchip [Official Video] by John Williamson FWIW.
Meanwhile in Oz we are entering the season of heatwaves, drought and bushfires here and my Bursaria spinosa‘s or Christmas Bushes in common parlance (https://malleedesign.com.au/a-must-have-in-your-habitat-garden-bursaria-spinosa/ ) are just starting to flower and my Xerochryusm bracteata is flowering with triple daisy infloresences blooming quite nicely still..
PS. What species / genus are those finished flowerheads please?
Look a bit plantain-y (Ribgrass-y) or lavender-ish maybe but well outta my (South Aussie bushland) jurisdiction here.
I think those are coneflowers. I’ve got some yellow ones on my balcony and it just got too dry for them around August even though I was watering them . I think these are the purple ones .
The genus is Echinacea. There’s a few garden species .
You should leave those tops on. They’re a good source of food for the birds all winter. (Sorry if you already know this)
@uusuzanne
American Goldfinches love them
I didn’t realize that this song was remade by Peter, Paul, and Mary after the original by Marlene Dietrich.
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
was ist geschehen?
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
Mädchen pflückten sie geschwind
Wann wird man je verstehen
wann wird man je verstehen?
pretty sure its a Rudbeckia, either fulgida or hirta
Tethys @8: According to Wikipedia (not an authoritative source, but I’m inclined to believe it this time because it’s all matters of fact), the song was written by Pete Seeger in 1955. There have been lots of covers, including by Peter, Paul and Mary on their first album, and in French by Marlene Dietrich, both in 1962.
(I had thought that it was a Malvina Reynolds song, so I learned something.)
Here in California we are finally out of fire season (no big blazes within a hundred miles of me this year, I think) and the rainy season is starting. The summer flowers are over, and the winter ones are still waiting for more rain. The hillsides are beginning to turn green as new grass grows through the brown and yellow grass left over from last year.
@9. prairieslug & 5. brightmoon : Thanks.
Deutschlandfunk Kultur says, Pete Seeger was inspired bei russian literature and a ukrainian song:
“Marlene Dietrich sang „Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind“ – die deutsche Version von „Where Have All The Flowers Gone“ des US-amerikanischen Songwriters Peter Seeger. Nur wenige wissen wohl, dass zentrale Passagen aus diesem Song einem ukrainischen Volkslied entstammen.
Vorbild: Das Wiegenlied im Roman „Stiller Don“
Seeger kam über den Umweg der Literatur zu diesem Volkslied. Er hatte Sympathien für sozialistische und kommunistische Ideen. In den 1950er-Jahren las er den sowjetischen Roman „Der stille Don“. Dieses Buch erzählt vom Ersten Weltkrieg, vor allem aber vom Bürgerkrieg nach der Oktoberrevolution. Es ist ein Mammutwerk mit 2.000 Seiten.
Der Held ist ein Donkosake, der auf beiden Seiten kämpft, ein scheiternder Held. Der Autor Michail Scholochow erhielt dafür übrigens 1965 den Literatur-Nobelpreis… “
Echinacea or rudbeckia. The birds should love the seed heads. Especially goldfinches. I used to grow them. The little guys would hang on the stalk and eat away.