Virtual Retreat 2016

[idaho]

ops: ops: ops: ops: ops: My brain was all tangled up in that plant !! I KNEW it was a hummer !SheezzzzI an idiot !

The attachment is right under the picture of DH's wood "bowl/trays". I can't seem to get the quote to work to show it to you.

[bpfred45]

Cut leaf coneflower Hortensia.?

[bpfred45]

We call that vine with the orange trumpets a "trumpet vine" too.

[idaho]

Hi Ritzy ! Yes...and it is a darker orange than some. We have several large ones ...2 growing over arbors and a couple
others on old ladders ...Hummers love them !! BTW...How are you? and Whatcha ya up too this summer??

Thank you !! :woohoo: :woohoo: bpfred45 (wish I had a name!) You sure did know the plant ! I looked it up and sure enough...That is the
one. Several friends here will be pleased to know the name. It looks like while not rare here...not too common but very common
in your area and further east. I see in your profile your are in MI somewhere.
Thanks for writing and perhaps you will join in now and then.

[idaho]

Yeah Marilyn glad your plant has been identified!
Barb :-)

[Pemela]

Marilyn your husbands work is amazing - does he make scissor stands? I didn't know the name of your plant.
Geneva so pleased your mojo has returned - I knew it would - and your table runner and tooth fairy pillow are lovely. I think sometimes when our creative spark diminishes we get scared it won't come back, we immobilize ourselves, then out of the blue it fires back up it was just resting.
Warm wishes to everyone Pam (in Scotland)

[bpfred45]

Hi Marilyn, my name is Beth,on Lake Huron in the northern lower peninsula. Flowers are my other passion along with quilting. I read the forum every day, but have never posted before. The flower picture totally intrigued me.

[bpfred45]

Hi Beth, good to hear from you. It is always nice to 'meet' new folks to talk to here.

[Renata]

Thank you, Dawn, for your kind words about my HC. I suppose Monday is the big announcement day. I found your HC on the Forum and love the creativity with which you crafted the hummingbird's feathers, all the wonderful detail in quilting and I thought the white background was a beautiful contrast--unique and a lovely surprise. So beautiful!

[idaho]

Hi!Beth ! from central southwestern Idaho. You should post some pics of where you live....by the map...quite
the country. I'm bettin' you have long winters and short summers?? Thanks again for finding my tall plant.
What a Victorian name "Hortensia" is :lol: :lol: ! Would you like another challenge? We have another lovely
vine/shrub that was "bird planted" at my SiL 's and DH started ours from a cutting. The blooms look like the
wildflower Shooting Star....but it's little and this is big....fence-high or more. I've hunted but no luck as yet.


Here's the bloom.

And here is the result ! The birds must like the fruit/seed .


Glad you chimed in...Like Rosemary said....we love new 'voices" DH says he hopes you have good luck finding his
mystery plant ! Now....back to stitchin' that row ! :whistle:

[idaho]

Marilyn, that flower looks like it is one of the nightshade family-actually my first thought was deadly nightshade, but I am almost certainly wrong on the 'deadly' bit.

[twiglet]

Solanum Dulcamara, Woody Nightshade Marilyn. Nearly right Rosemary

[twiglet]

Solanum Dulcamara, Woody Nightshade Marilyn. Nearly right Rosemary

B) :woohoo:

[twiglet]

:lol: :lol:

[idaho]

You guys rock ! :lol: :woohoo: I'm :blush: ops: ops: ops: !!!
We prob'ly should've known this one !! I knew it grew here...but is hunted and eradicated along
with several others, by ranchers so I can't say I've seen it out of a book ...and that was in pharmacy class.! :blink: :blush: Perhaps, as recreation
replaces grazing on public lands here, we will see more of some of these less desirable plants in out back country.
Good thing vs.bad thing...always trade-off.!