Enchanting Essex

Tag: Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)

  • The Flower Hour #44 M, N, O — Quaint Quadrilles

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    Wild and Free Soft grass bends beneath our feet.Milkweed smells so cool and sweet.Thistles form like little drums.Bees fly past with gentle hums. Trees stretch high to catch the sun.Silver brooks gurgle and run.Asters wear their sapphire ring.Bumblebees begin to sing. Petals brush our wandering knees.Oxeyes flutter in the breeze.We are wild and we are…

  • Pastel Petals in Presqu’ile’s Pannes

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    The Obedient Plant gets its name because you can manually swivel its individual blossoms to the left or right, and they will “obediently” stay in that exact position.  Being, at first, a skeptic, I tested this theory several times, and on each of those occasions it worked perfectly.  Obedient!  It is always a happy surprise…