Wednesday Vignette: Green Flowers!

In my last post, I grumbled that none of the Eustoma grandiflorum (aka Lisianthus) I planted this spring had produced green flowers.  I'd ordered 2 collections of Eustoma plugs by mail, one of which consisted of 6 blue, 6 yellow and 6 green-flowering plants.  Some of these plants were negatively impacted by heat and insufficient irrigation and less than half have produced flowers thus far but, where I believe I planted the green-flowered plugs, I saw only pale yellow blooms.  However, last evening as I was making a pass through the garden, I saw this:

Both this photo and the one above are of the same small plant

In stronger sun this morning, they're looking somewhat less green.  It may be that the flowers bleach out with ongoing sun exposure as this plant is located alongside others I'd characterize as pale yellow but I was still excited to see the greenish flowers.

My sojourn through the garden last evening also led to the discovery of a single, tiny blue Eustoma bloom.  Unlike the pink Eustoma, I'd thought that none of the 'Borealis Blue' I'd planted last year had survived to bloom this year.  This small bloom makes me wrong on that count too.

It's not nearly as heavily petaled as last years blooms nor, at 7 inches high, nearly as tall but it's alive and blooming!

This summer got started with a blast, literally, as a heatwave wreaked destruction across my garden so it's the little things that lift my spirits.  I was even excited to see these this morning:

A cluster of tiny noID mushrooms snuggled up against one of the flagstones that form a path through the backyard garden

This mish-mash of photos represents my Wednesday Vignette this week.  Visit Anna at Flutter & Hum to view the images that drew her attention and that of other garden bloggers this week.


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