tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post8728357787388961497..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Spring snowMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-67339166841763524772011-07-10T14:08:41.712-04:002011-07-10T14:08:41.712-04:00Hey there, Mr. Tree--
I can imagine children havi...Hey there, Mr. Tree--<br /><br />I can imagine children having wild interplanetary battles, flinging dogberries about the yard (of course, now you have runaway concrete mixers for alien tanks!) And stomping dogberries must be satisfying for little people.<br /><br />Maybe I need a wisteria crutch for my big birch growing out of a high apple stump. The stump is starting to decay and the tree to Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-19386820849806387382011-07-10T09:23:20.484-04:002011-07-10T09:23:20.484-04:00We have an old dogwood tree in our garden that is ...We have an old dogwood tree in our garden that is now held up by gnarled wisteria and a grape vine. It was the only way to keep this tree going! But flower it does, every year : )<br />In the front, Lynn planted the kind that has dogberries, and local children LOVE to squash those things!<br />I like the mess : )<br /><br />These are very nice photos, Marly!<br />(Man.... I do miss the English Mr Treenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-92065940857289694992011-07-09T00:52:11.525-04:002011-07-09T00:52:11.525-04:00Just had a conversation on fb about whether mimosa...Just had a conversation on fb about whether mimosas are trash trees or not. They are not strong, and they are messy, but children always love them. Lovely pink puffs tipped with gold...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37513285747748851352011-07-08T23:09:14.992-04:002011-07-08T23:09:14.992-04:00It is the big pics that didn't show on my comp...It is the big pics that didn't show on my computer. <br />Some of the prettiest trees are also the messiest. I remember when I was little, there was the most beautiful mimosa tree growing outside my best friend's house. Her parents used to complain that it was terribly messy, but I loved those sweet smelling fireworks, the pink asterisks that grew on that tree.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-88987286604385168992011-07-08T19:02:09.081-04:002011-07-08T19:02:09.081-04:00Robbi,
I checked it on two computers--works here....Robbi,<br /><br />I checked it on two computers--works here. But it is a little more demanding that the usual because I made some of them a bit larger. Maybe those are the ones that aren't showing for you...<br /><br />All summer and fall the dogberries will be falling. They are a beautiful red, and when stepped-on, produce an orange sap. Mess!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-4161581636613513152011-07-08T17:36:11.308-04:002011-07-08T17:36:11.308-04:00They are incredibly lovely. No wonder they have ma...They are incredibly lovely. No wonder they have made an impression on you! I wasn't even there, and they also impress me with longing. Of course, I remember the trees and honeysuckle at Hollins in the spring and summer, and that's part of what these pictures trigger in me.<br />I think some of your pictures didn't post though. There are blank spaces there.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-52896701207619324812011-07-08T13:07:10.511-04:002011-07-08T13:07:10.511-04:00I'm afraid that I am quite capable of missing ...I'm afraid that I am quite capable of missing strange and wonderful fruits that I ate in Thailand and Cambodia, and that was only two weeks! We are nostalgic, we humans.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-57990430432947726042011-07-08T12:56:45.015-04:002011-07-08T12:56:45.015-04:00those blossoms are stunning, so beautiful!
It'...those blossoms are stunning, so beautiful!<br /><br />It's also true that when you have lived far from home, then when you come back home, you miss things from the other place you lived. (I spent two years in Malawi)Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-82322462205595745542011-07-08T12:19:56.349-04:002011-07-08T12:19:56.349-04:00marja-leena,
Yes, I like that too--the white agai...marja-leena,<br /><br />Yes, I like that too--the white against the firs. And in sparse years the flowers look ethereal and floating the way.<br /><br />Pink has become rather popular for yards and gardens here as well, but I love seeing them on the mountains, wild and sometimes scraggly.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-36446353092286311422011-07-08T12:18:24.600-04:002011-07-08T12:18:24.600-04:00zephyr,
I thought it was Cornus kousa but then re...zephyr,<br /><br />I thought it was <i>Cornus kousa</i> but then remembered my mother had dug up the tree, so I thought I must be wrong. But now I remember that we had a ring of five Cornus kousa at the prior house, and I believe she must have had the nursery transplant one...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-43933967897910686932011-07-08T12:03:36.824-04:002011-07-08T12:03:36.824-04:00Lovely, Marly.
fyi: this one is Cornus kousa. T...Lovely, Marly. <br /> <br />fyi: this one is <i>Cornus kousa</i>. They flourished wonderfully--as many woodies have--with the copious snow and rainfall of the last 2 years.<br /><br />Our native dogwood is <i>Cornus florida</i>(<i>florida</i>=flowering).zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-29792347484188702382011-07-08T11:52:47.085-04:002011-07-08T11:52:47.085-04:00Gorgeous! British Columbia's provincial flower...Gorgeous! British Columbia's provincial flower is the dogwood. I love the contrast of the native dogwoods against the dark conifers in the woods. A lot of gardens here have many nursery varieties, also in pinks.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90335088511428194012011-07-08T11:40:57.738-04:002011-07-08T11:40:57.738-04:00Yes, that is the genus. The southeastern U. S. has...Yes, that is the genus. The southeastern U. S. has lots of native species.<br /><br />I just looked up the name, and Wiki says: <br /><br />The name "dog-tree" entered the English vocabulary by 1548, and had been further transformed to "dogwood" by 1614. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree, it soon acquired a secondary name as the Hound's Tree, while theMarly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-47602009582497338692011-07-08T11:33:30.353-04:002011-07-08T11:33:30.353-04:00These are so beautiful Marly. Saw some the other w...These are so beautiful Marly. Saw some the other week-end in Yorkshire I think - is Dogwood the same as Cornus? The flowers remind me of hydrageas.Paul Bommerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01398540932890763615noreply@blogger.com