Sitting Pretty Sea Holly - An Update

Sea Holly

 

Sweetly tolerant of heat and dry,

    pretty sea holly promises

nurture for bee and butterflies.

“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.”

~ Srikumar Rao, 

Author of Happiness at Work

Authors note:

My error of last evening was misnaming this lovely little plant a thistle. I have learned since that it is Sea Holly (botanical name Eryngium planet). While it has similar attributes to the thistle, it is apparently not botanically related.

Thriving Thistles

Heat tolerant and tough,        

     decorative thistles 

       await a display 

of pretty purple blossoms

“May your blessings outnumber 

the thistles that grow and 

trouble avoid you wherever you go.

~ Irish Blessing

On an Afternoon Walk - Tanning

Forever Susan Asiatic Lily

Lilies tall and elegant,

leaned into the heat ~

suntanned and glorious

“Look to the lilies how they grow.”

~ David Macbeth Muir