The only of it’s kind in our area. This one is hiding in a small kinda semi hidden front yard overgrown with all sorts of plants. Poisonous Plant of the Year 2019. Caution: even just touching it can lead to skin irritations, letting alone eating the berries. Best is to leave it alone and admire it from afar.
The Phlox is a truly international plant with a huge family. Here in Germany it actually won the award “Shrub of the Year 2006”. It’s only use it just to look pretty and therefor make us humans happy. Note to self: the focus is all over the place again, just not where you wanted it. hmpf
Another Himalaya Balsam, this time in a beautiful soft purple. Still too hot to roam around outside and hunt for photos, so that’s the chance for all the photos in my folder to make it to the blog. =p Stay cool everybody, be safe and healthy and have a pawtastic weekend. ❤
It is actually too hot for long walkies. Not only is the sun burning like a bunny on crack, the ground also is too hot for dog paws. The risk that she would hurt her paws before we get to the nature preserve where the path is save for paws is way to high, so we just went out for potty and the back to the AC inside. Stay cool everybody, be safe and healthy. ❤
This beauty originates from the USA. It’s the national flower of the states Nebraska (1895) and Kentucky (1926). It also serves as healing herbs for different things plus it can be used as dye.
Somewhat Patchy 