Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
Bold and beautiful
They can't see me
Old cabin on Gottlob Schmidt's (Schmitty's) land
Splash of colour on a rainy day
Memorial Rose for Carl Handfield
Loved by Monarch butterflies
Pine Siskin at Jackie's
Lovage / Levisticum officinale
A garden in the forest
The colours of fall
Juvenile White-throated Sparrow / Zonotrichia albi…
Autumn berries
Glorious colours of fall
Tenderness
Brightness on a cloudy day
Owl sculpture at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
Larch in fall colour
As fall colours come to an end
Passion Flowers
Astilbe
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Sunflower going to seed
Purple Petunias
Always good for a splash of colour
Fall colours at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
Bark colour after the rain
The Wall Garden - October is Breast Cancer Awarene…
Aging beauties
A big splash of colour
A splash of different colour
A colourful walk through the woods
The second owl
Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris
Simplicity
Lest we forget
That sinking feeling
Ornamental Cabbage or Ornamental Kale?
Clematis after the rain
Half Moon Garden, Silver Springs
Raindrops
Narcissus
Colour for a snowy day
Oak leaf and insect gall
Showy Milkweed with bee
Seedpod of Datura sp.?
A bright splash of colour
Fall colour
The centre of a labyrinth
Long gone, but memories remain
Like floral flames for a deep-freeze day
A welcome splash of red
Beginning to burst
The droplet
Beauty in the final stage
Remembering summer colours
A splash of colour on a snowy day
Colour for winter
Downy Woodpecker and bokeh
A splash of fall colour
Cheery sunflower
Unidentified fruit
Yesterday's summer hail
Iris at Olds College Botanical Gardens and Wetland…
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Red-edged petals
Needed a change of colour
Hollyhock buds
Farm seed elevator, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Bee nesting box
A colourful little corner
The purity of white
Flowers of spring
Is this a Pink?
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Red Baneberry
Much-needed colour
The joy of spring
Periwinkle / Vinca minor
Colour
Snake's Head Fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Hepatica
After the rain
One of my favourite spring garden flowers
Hellebore beauty
Elephant Ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Beauty of spring
Art of nature
Hoverfly on European Pasque Flower
Physoclaina orientalis
Physoclaina orientalis
Candy-striped Tulip
Pink Hellebore
Delicate Iris
Siberian Squill
Home tweet home
Hanging on to the old
Hepatica
Giant Scabius with purple bokeh
Spider on Strawflower
Beauty lasts
Pink Sundae / Salvia viridis
Floral beauty
Popular with the Aphids
From days gone by
Siberian Squill
A little corner of Reader Rock Garden
Datura flower?
Just a splash of colour
Another day closer
Springtime colour
Poppy art
Delicate colours of summer
Sweet little garden ornament
Dianthus sp.
Embracing the sun
Beware those icy fingers
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Vibrant
Busy little bee
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Remembering the warmth of summer
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
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Egyptian Walking Onion
Two mornings ago, on 30 June 2016, I just made it in time for a botany visit to our main naturalist leader's home and garden. He and his wife have an amazing garden, full of so many kinds of flowers, including a good variety of native plants. One of my favourites is Showy Milkweed - love the cluster of individual flowers growing on a rounded head. These plants have spread over a lot of the front garden. All they need now is for Monarch butterflies to fly a bit further north than they usually do and discover this little bit of butterfly heaven. In 2012, though, it was very unusual, as people were seeing a few of these amazing butterflies in Alberta, including in Calgary. I even got to see and photograph a few Monarch caterpillars in this garden, for the very first and last time.
Our leader also has a large vegetable garden. One thing that always fascinates me is the Egyptian Walking Onion. Each one seems to take on its own artistic shape and I love to photograph these - both fascinating and quite beautiful.
"Tree onions, topsetting onions, walking onions, or Egyptian onions, Allium ×proliferum, are similar to common onions (A. cepa), but with a cluster of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers. Genomic evidence has conclusively shown that they are a hybrid of the common onion and the Welsh onion (A. fistulosum). However, some sources may still treat the tree onion as A. cepa var. proliferum or A. cepa Proliferum Group. Tree onion bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant, giving rise to the name "walking onion". It has been postulated that the name "Egyptian onion" is derived from tree onions being brought to Europe from the Indian subcontinent by the Romani people.
The phenomenon of forming bulblets instead of flowers is also seen in garlic and other alliums, which sometimes may also be referred to as top onions or tree onions. The bulblets are usually marble-sized, between 0.5 cm to 3 cm in diameter.
Many tree onions are very strong flavoured, although some cultivars are relatively mild and sweet. The underground bulbs are particularly tough-skinned and pungent, and can be quite elongate, like leeks, or in some types may form bulbs up to 5 cm across. Young plants may be used as scallions in the spring, and the bulblets may be used in cooking similarly to regular onions, or preserved by pickling." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_onion
www.egyptianwalkingonion.com/
In the afternoon of this day, we experienced a huge rain and hail storm. Fortunately, it cleared up in time to go on Don Stiles' annual evening Bluebird route trip. I always look forward to going with Don on his nest box route, checking on a few of the boxes and finding either Bluebird or Tree Swallow eggs or babies. Don records all the information about numbers and dates, and also demonstrates how he carefully bands the young birds. Thanks, as always, Don, for an enjoyable evening outing and thank you for all the many, many years (must be somewhere around 35?) you have spent helping to preserve our beautiful Bluebirds. We all enjoyed seeing the various other bird species during the evening, too.
Our leader also has a large vegetable garden. One thing that always fascinates me is the Egyptian Walking Onion. Each one seems to take on its own artistic shape and I love to photograph these - both fascinating and quite beautiful.
"Tree onions, topsetting onions, walking onions, or Egyptian onions, Allium ×proliferum, are similar to common onions (A. cepa), but with a cluster of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers. Genomic evidence has conclusively shown that they are a hybrid of the common onion and the Welsh onion (A. fistulosum). However, some sources may still treat the tree onion as A. cepa var. proliferum or A. cepa Proliferum Group. Tree onion bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant, giving rise to the name "walking onion". It has been postulated that the name "Egyptian onion" is derived from tree onions being brought to Europe from the Indian subcontinent by the Romani people.
The phenomenon of forming bulblets instead of flowers is also seen in garlic and other alliums, which sometimes may also be referred to as top onions or tree onions. The bulblets are usually marble-sized, between 0.5 cm to 3 cm in diameter.
Many tree onions are very strong flavoured, although some cultivars are relatively mild and sweet. The underground bulbs are particularly tough-skinned and pungent, and can be quite elongate, like leeks, or in some types may form bulbs up to 5 cm across. Young plants may be used as scallions in the spring, and the bulblets may be used in cooking similarly to regular onions, or preserved by pickling." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_onion
www.egyptianwalkingonion.com/
In the afternoon of this day, we experienced a huge rain and hail storm. Fortunately, it cleared up in time to go on Don Stiles' annual evening Bluebird route trip. I always look forward to going with Don on his nest box route, checking on a few of the boxes and finding either Bluebird or Tree Swallow eggs or babies. Don records all the information about numbers and dates, and also demonstrates how he carefully bands the young birds. Thanks, as always, Don, for an enjoyable evening outing and thank you for all the many, many years (must be somewhere around 35?) you have spent helping to preserve our beautiful Bluebirds. We all enjoyed seeing the various other bird species during the evening, too.
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