Outdoor Hour Challenge - Autumn Series #6 - Queen Anne's Lace or other Autumn Weed
A and N spent time out in the beautiful Autumn weather sketching the flowers they chose for their year-long observations. You can see their summer pictures here: Summer Series: Queen Anne's Lace
N chose to observe a Delphinum plant:
A chose to observe a Burgundy Gaillardia plant.
We also spent time looking at "weeds" and seeing how different they are now they are dead and dry. We tried to find plants that we had looked at during the summer so we could compare them.
Sunflowers
Sweet gum . . . something or another. I forget the full name, but this plant makes your hands horribly sticky, has little ball shaped yellow flowers, and millions of seeds!
Mullein - this young plant will winter over and then bloom in the spring.
This is a full-grown mullein
A variety of the ever-popular tumbleweeds, or umbrellas for little girls :)
Rabbitbrush - late-bloom is the yellow on the right and end-of-bloom on the left
And because of the wonderfully, unseasonally warm autumn weather there were plenty of late bloomers for us to discover as well!!
I really enjoyed seeing your autumn garden and your wildflowers too. We have had a surge of wildflowers with the wet weather and then the sunshine and warmer temps. Very unusual and I think it is great to keep a record, either written or mental, of how our seasons are different from year to year.
ReplyDeleteI saw some chicory yesterday and thought of your entry....
Thanks for sharing your link with the OHC.
What a wonderful variety you explored together and I must say, you have an amazing landscape to admire there!
ReplyDeleteLove the sketches!
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