Green Tarantula Daylily

 

Daylily

Hemerocallis 'Green Tarantula'

(hem-er-oh-KAL-iss)

This flower is a bit of a novelty item in the Daylily Border. It grows fairly enormous and doesn’t really flower that heartily. The color is also a little novel as it is bright pretty much a lime green and yellow mix. The flowers are huge, up to 8 inches wide and often display uniquely shaped and crinkled petals. I am not sure but this variety may go into ‘spider’ type division.

Since it’s Sunday again here are a couple of random Daylilies from the horse farm. The thing I like most about the colors of these types of Daylilies is if the light is right it kind of has a nice pink/yellow glow to the whole area. These are going to have to be divided this year.

St. Patrick’s Day Flowers

Dendrobium
Dendrobium ‘Burana Jade’
(den-DROH-bee-um)

I thought these green flowers were good for St. Patrick’s Day. Hope you are out celebrating or going to the parade we are going to be working.

Both of these Orchids have a green tint, which is a little rare. A couple of other Cymbidiums (‘Loch Lomond’) have a green tint as do a couple of other species.


Asian Corsage Orchid
Cymbidium Enzan Current ‘Aquarius’
(sim-BID-ee-um)

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Palm and Fern
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Thought a little green would be appropriate for today.

ABC Wednesday – G is for Green

ABC Wednesday – G is for Green

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This is a Fan Palm frond I saw at the Orchid Show. Whilst everyone else was snapping pictures of the flowers I liked the way the light and shadows played on this leaf. It was taken with my Sigma 17-70mm lens (38 mm, F/5, 1/100 sec, for those interested), and the Nikon D70s.

I have a special love affair with Palm Trees. Maybe because they represent far off locales and tropical scenes or maybe it is their structure and geometry. Either way I find them fascinating. In the Conservatory at work there are several nice specimens of different Palms and some are quite large but it is a poor second to see these beauties in their natural habitat.

Green is an interesting color. It is said to have a calming effect on the mind and the body and it is considered to be a healing color. It has become a buzzword of the environmental movement and if something is said to be ‘green’ in that sense it is thought to be environmentally friendly. Of course for Americans it is the color of money.


This was an assignment from a Photoshop class I took awhile back. The topic was selective coloring and I picked green as my color. The first picture was boat I saw in Padstow, Cornwall. I converted the background to Black and White (which was fitting since it was a dreary day) and left the boat green. The boat’s name was ‘Diadem’ which means “a royal headband or something that adorns like a crown”.


This second picture is from our local train museum and the train was actually grey before the conversion. This locomotive and cars is from the old New Haven Central Line. It’s a EMD E-9A Diesel Electric Locomotive for you train buffs.

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