Friday Flower – Brrr!
I don’t know about you, Oh Best Beloved, but I need a nice warm-looking flower photo today.
It was 15 degrees below zero here last night.
-15F.
That’s cold enough to freeze the whiskers off a bunny, especially as the wind chill was at -28F.
This purple coneflower (botanical name: Echinacea purpurea) is from a clump I started from seed a little over twenty years ago. The red daylily (variety unknown) next to it was a little bitty rather pitiful-looking root I got free through a mail-order nursery at the same time. Both have thrived and multipled, yielding a large clump of each that happily grow together at the side of our house. The goldfinches love the seed heads that the coneflower form, and use them as a food source from autumn through spring.
Ya gotta love plants like these – beautiful and virtually maintenance-free.
Oh – and the bunnies don’t like them.
All together now: awwwwwwwww, poor bunnies!
Garden, Village Life, bunnies | JAS | 
January 16, 2009 2:26 pm
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By Kris, in New England, January 16, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
Boy that greenery looks good! We aren’t nearly as cold here in New England as you guys are, but 6 below zero this morning was a bit much, especially with our power going out at 3:30 this morning!
Those red lilies? Yeah the deer here think they are chocolate.
By Dan, January 19, 2009 @ 9:48 am
Hey Judy, What is it about the dead of winter that inspires looking at flowers? Anyway, I like it.
BTW – a friend of mine who lives up in Pequot Lakes, MN reported -38 F last week…and I thought it was cold here! I can always count on him for a little perspective
By JAS, January 21, 2009 @ 11:42 am
Mmmmm – chocolate! I don’t blame the deer!
I think I’m staying away from Pequot Lakes… I’ve got a friend up in North Dakota who raises horses and she keeps telling me I’m such a wimp to whine about -20F!