Sunday, May 6, 2012

A garden walk

For Macro Monday this week I took a short walk around the garden looking for some unusual subjects.  And by unusual, I mean not flower blooms; I wasn't feeling so creative to do something totally off the wall. 

We have a rose bush that is starting to get get ready to explode in color.  It is a native Virginia Rose and in a week or two will be heavy with pink blooms.  But for now we have to live with the anticipation of what is to come.
Anticipation   

In the spring time our lawn hosts hundreds of these small berry plants.  They are right at eye level for the turtles living in the yard and make a good turtle snack so we affectionately refer to them as turtleberries, although most people call them False or Indian Strawberries.  The flowers and berries are reminiscent of strawberries and they are edible but they are unrelated to the human food and do not have much of a taste.
Turtleberry (a.k.a. False Strawberry)
And our final stop is in our overgrown vegetable garden where the asparagus has moved beyond the edible stage.  But I thought the find foliage makes for a nice image.

Enjoy and be sure to stop by the other macro photographs at Lisa's Chaos.



8 comments:

  1. The false strawberry brings back memories of my childhood, we used to eat them.

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    1. Eating the false strawberries :) I've tried them once and it was a bit like cardboard. But I'm sure I ate some crazy stuff when I was a kid also.

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  2. That berry looks so beautiful! I've never heard of the false strawberry before.

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    1. Thanks. I had not seen them before getting them in our lawn either.

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  3. The rosebud is so pretty! And the false strawberry sounds and looks like something we have here--I will have to look it up and see if it is the same.

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    1. It is an Asian native that has naturalized in parts of the US. It's Latin name is Potentilla indica (formerly Duchesnea indica). It grows pretty low; below the lawn mower blades. Thanks for stopping by.

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  4. The rosebud is always a favorite ~ lovely ~ thanks, namaste, ^_^

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  5. I love that magenta colored rosebud!!! Beautiful photos! I love the name turtle berries!

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