Lenten Roses , Daffodils and American Robin at Shakespeare garden. Central park.
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Plant of the Day
Thursday 15 February 2024
The hardy, clump-forming perennial, Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose) flowers in early spring. This plant has leathery, dark green leaves divided into leaflets and here the old foliage has been removed so the flowers can be clearly seen. After flowering the new foliage will emerge. The flowers can be variable in colour with shades of greenish-white to pink or purple and the flowers are often spotted.
Jill Raggett
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Lenten rose (Helleborus orientalis)
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The lenten rose. A rose by any other name. A green rose. There are shockingly few green flowers, but it's nice to have one. Also known as a Hellebore, which reminds me, I need to finish watching Hellboy on Netflix.
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Let's hear it for hellebores, which begin blooming in winter. Yay!
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A Lenten rose at my local arboretum. I'm trying to remember how to take actual photographs.
Blue Astilbe
Crocuses
Daffodils. Maybe a little washed out, but the sky was really gray today.
A random pink wildflower I don't know the name of.
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I write and draw pages in my sketchbooks and they outline the substance of our lives. They mark the cups of coffee and spring noodle bowls, summer oysters, the fall Osage Orange collections, and the winter dried flowers. My words document hopes and fears, memories and dreams. They are carved from the habits of our lives and minor deviations in routines. I am working towards firing the wood kiln, soaking peas to plant in the garden, drawing on a new backdrop for a photo to mark the equinox. Each week I try to take at least one photo with the good camera. Everyday phone photos provide a chronology, a tangible record of daily actions. Quick images transform impulse into a visual language which helps to articulate the nameless inspiration so it can be further shaped.
“… poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
–Audre Lorde
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"Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the Word that is planted in you, which can save you."
-James 1:21
Photo: Morton Arboretum, Illinois
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perennial : helleborus orientalis
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Lenten roses are notoriously shy. Always hanging their flower heads and not looking the camera straight in the lens. At our rose-by-any-other-name facility out on Lon Guyland, we plant Lenten roses at head height for Linda Hunt (great actress, we're all fans here at PBDJ) so that we can undershoot the lenten roses.
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Helleborus x hybridus / Hybrid Hellebore at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC
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