Went for a hike today and found an interesting new species. Oh look at this nice tree! ( photo / image / picture from Frank's Garden ) What a nice flower. Hey wait a minute... ( photo / image / picture from Frank's Garden ) A rare shuttlecock flower! ( photo / image / picture from Frank's Garden ) Looks like it's dropping flowers though. ( photo / image / picture from Frank's Garden )
Those "flowers" that fell to the ground--will they self-seed and grow raquets? You and Cheryl ought to enter "interesting garden decor" contests and win every one of them!
I have always wondered where shuttlecocks came from. They are a resilient flower an hold up to even the toughest beatings.They don't seem to grow around here. Wrong zone. We can only get them as a dried arrangement. Nice bush Frank. Jerry
Good one Frank! I was thinking "wow! look at those flowers... they really do look like shuttlecocks!"
For a minute I thought we had gone back in time and it was April again. Very good Frank. I wonder if they come in other colours.....