Saturday, March 31, 2007

Name That Plant

This plant is blooming in our front yard and we see ones just like it everywhere, but I don't know what it is.

What is it?
And is this a cherry?
Cherry ?

The pear in our backyard is covered in blooms. Sami's already dreaming of making pear cider.

Pear in Bloom



Also, we have a camelia and a heather bush in the front yard that are in bloom right now.

CamelliaHeather


P. S. Thank You! to Kathy (one of the librarians at work) who identified our plants.

The first one is Pieris japonica - Japanese Andromeda and the second one is Prunus cerasifera 'Thundercloud' - Japanese Flowering Plum

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice!!
But where is the vanilla growing at? I can't believe Sami would do the sider without it.. ;)

Sara said...

You're so right! Unfortunately I don't think we're tropical enough to grow vanilla, but we'll have to look into it :)

agnes koltay said...

Vanilla grows in the Grocery Store.

Petrarchan Lover said...

Agnes I was about to say make a small green house :). But a grocery store works just as good, if not better.


Your yard is going to look really good in the next 3 weeks*!



*This means pictures ;)

Fozzynen said...

Just got another camera battery recharger (to replace the one that was collateral damage of moving), so pictures will come...