Er, what’s that you say!? Ok, it cannot just be me that thinks that new asparagus sprouts look like little tiny penises (peni?). Oh, lord, I can only imagine the hits I will get from google searches on this post. Already my “fresh booty” post from last year is pulling in over 100 hits a day from people I am assuming want to look at brand new hieney. Anyhow, yes, asparagus! I have it! And it is grownin’ in my very own garden! Yippie!
Well, alright, so this one does not look too penis-y, but I swear the smaller ones do. I just have a crappy point and shoot camera so micro-photography is not really within my reach.
Aunt Sally gave me some of these little purple flowers two years ago, and this is the first year they have bloomed. I asked her what they were and she said she did not know, but they make a nice little mound and get little purple flowers. They are a division from something in her grandmother’s garden, like everything else she gave me. Anyone know what they are so I can stop calling them “little purple flowers”? She also gave me these, which she called “pinks”. I thought she was saying mountain pinks, but they sure don’t look like mountain pinks to me. I suspect they are some sort of carnation? Dianthus?
And, just because they are so super awesome…
The newest batch of irises to bloom. I looovvveeee that blue one on the right, but it looks like that is the only one I have got thus far. The other ones are a lot like the ones near the garage, but they have a more bronze/purple colored standard where the ones near the garage have more yellow fading to white standards and much heavier “tiger striping” on the falls.
4 Comments
June 2, 2008 at 7:03 am
Those little purple flowers are lovely. And yes, you are in for some freaky hits. Crazy, isn’t it?
June 2, 2008 at 7:18 am
snort, asparapenis, I’ll be laughing over that all day! (Which rocks since I’m braced for a day of mad-chaos at work).
The black is a little annoying but I’m trying to do my part see here http://fluorophore.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/blackle/
I’m going to pretend I haven’t just discovered that you haven’t read my blog since April…
June 6, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Are the purple flowers anemone/windfloers? The leaves make me think so, although I’m not sure about the blossoms. Because I am a garden nerd:
http://garden.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Windflower
I have long connected asparagus with peniseseseses, especially the thicker stalks when they first…er…come up. My Ichiban eggplants are also very penile. I feel like I need to apologize to them when I harvest them.
June 22, 2008 at 7:47 pm
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