Recent projects, musings, drawings, and observations
Seeing the dangling flowers of the perennial Bleeding Heart (Dicentra) plant gave me a shock when I first saw them growing in the yard of an elderly neighbor as a child. ‘What is this, what strange magic … tiny heart pouches hanging out on a clothes line’.
Read MoreEach bud seems to yield two leaves. In this hybrid japanese maple specimen the flowers emerge and drop just as the pairs of leave emerge and unfold. Zooming in on the development of the samaras (‘helicopter’ seed/fruits) might make another nice animation, with showing them spiraling down …
Read MoreThe explosion of new growth in the garden is a constant draw every springtime. With the ongoing pandemic lockdown, I’ve had more time than usual to carry on a few plant diaries, mapping the daily growth.
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