Garden Variety: Prairie Coneflower

08/12/2018•flowers, Minnesota, nature

Minnesota Wildflower

Prairie Coneflower, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

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Color Your World 2018: 120 Days of Crayola – Piggy Pink

02/10/2018•flowers, Gardens, Photography

Piggy Pink Poppy

Poppy

Join Jennifer’s Color Your World 2018: 120 Days of Crayola, a 4 month (January 1, 2018 to April 30, 2018) blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a past or current crayon color in Crayola’s box of 120 crayons.

Color Your World 2017: Tickle Me Pink

04/16/2017•Gardens, Photography

Pretty Poison

How can something so beautiful be so deadly? All parts of an oleander shrub, even the blossoms, are poisonous; smoke from burning oleander debris is toxic. Ingesting even a small amount of leaves, flowers or shoots can be fatal to both humans and their pets. In parts of the United States, especially in California, oleander is grown on highway and freeway medians. It seems to thrive in the toxic fumes generated by motor vehicles.

Jennifer’s 2017 Color Your World Challenge: Tickle Me Pink