This Red Cardinal Brightens Trash Day in the Boston Suburbs!

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Meet The Hybrid Petunia . . . And She's Not In An Onion Patch!

Petunia hybrida Vilm., better known as the Hybrid Petunia!

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Greet The Eastern Daisy Fleabane

Greet the Eastern daisy fleabane, or, as scientists call her, the Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers.

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The Orange Day Lily Was Greeting All Passersby Last Month!

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Meet the Cornus kousa F.Buerger ex Hance

Photo by MarashGirl©2022 Must such beautiful flowers have names that are so difficult to pronounce? Give up? Just take the easy way out and refer to this flower as the Japanese Dogwood.

Say "Good Morning" To The Hypericum x desetangsii Lamotte Des Étangs' Saint-John's-wort

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Greet the Geranium sanguineum L. or, in Plain English, The Bloody Crane's-bill!

Meet the Geranium sanguineum L. or, in plain English, the Bloody Crane's-Bill! Really? The Bloody Crane's-Bill? Such a scary name for such a beautiful flower!

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Now You, Too, Can Admire The Tree Privet!

Known by scientists as the Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.)Blume, the Tree Privet can be enjoyed by all . . . if not in your gardens, right here online!

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Here For All To Enjoy Is An Early Summer Flower!

Please meet the Ilium giganteum Regel Giant . . .

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Marash Girl Welcomes The Oriental Iris To Her Humble Front Garden!

Please meet the Oriental Iris (Iris orientalis Mill.), an iris which made its way all the way from the orient to the gardens of New England!

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Cheer Up, All Ye Who Pass!

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Allow Marash Girl To Introduce You To The Iris pallida Lam. . . . The Sweet Iris?

All Iris are not alike, even though they may look alike! And an Iris with the same name may not be the same color!

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Please Welcome The Hesperis matronalis L. Better Known As The Dames Rocket!

Please meet the Hesperis matronalis L., better known as the Dames Rocket . . . and NOT the same flower as the flower you met yesterday!

Photo by MarashGirl©2022 Wait . . . Don't go away yet! Look at this!

Photo by MarashGirl©2022 And this beauty!

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MEET THE PURPLE DAMES ROCKET!

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This Buckley Crimson Clematis Views The World Through the Slats Of An Old Wooden Fence . . .

How do you view the world?

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And Here In All Its Glory Is The Blood Iris (Iris sanguinea Donn ex Hornem, According To Botanists)

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Say Hello To The Dames Rocket (Hesperis matronalis L.), If You Dare!

You may think you have alreadu met this dame, but have you met a dame that is white with five petals? A Dame's Rocket has four petals, while Phlox has five! Just count those petals!

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Quince? Really? Awww . . . You Mean To Say Cydonia oblonga Mill., Right?

Photo taken mid-May by MarashGirl©2022

Have you ever met the Cyanus montanus (L.) Hill Perennial Cornflower?

Here's your chance!

Photo by MarashGirl©2022 And here are three of them!

Marash Girl Just Met The Purple Toothwort! Would You Like To Meet Her As Well?

She's a lot prettier than her name!

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