Walking in the neighborhood. Honeysuckle, from the front.
Looking down from above.
Milkweed seedpods.
Rose.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when we looked at all the hosta fruits on one plant?
I started looking for more hosta fruits. At first all I saw were hosta plants with whacked-off stems -- who knows what was on those stems.
Then I noticed some plants with bare (-ish) stalks,like the one at right, below. With dried-up bits, but no fruits. I can see why people would whack those stems.
But there were also some hosta stems with some dead flowers(?) and some fruit, as in the middle.
A closer look. I'm not sure those dried-up things are ex-flowers. Maybe they are the things the flowers came out of?
I did notice that the only plants with lots of fruits had the same dark-green, deeply-quilted leaves as that first fruity one we looked at.
My conclusion is that some hostas have lots of fruit, but most depend heavily on humans for vegetative multiplication, and don't have a lot of fruit. There may even be some varieties with no fruit, or next to none.
Before we leave the closeup above, here's an even closer crop, so we can enjoy the bokeh in the background.
Pinkish red zinnia, with bluer red cotoneaster berries in the background.
Zinnia bud.
Zinnias, cosmos, and cotoneaster in the foreground, with black-eyed Susans and a hydrangea in the background.
Orange coneflowers.
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