As any young child will tell you, a star shape has 5 points. As a kindergarten teacher teaching shape identification, I never had to teach the star or the heart shape to any 5 year old. It seems that those are the 2 shapes kids always pick up first. My students were always fascinated by the number of flowers that have the star shape. In my gardens now, I'm seeing lots of stars blooming.
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| pink oxalis |
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| Star of Bethlehem (or SOB - very invasive) |
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| blue creeping phlox |
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| creeping phlox |
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| phlox pilosa |
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| woodland phlox |
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| amsonia "blue star" |
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| yellow jessamine |
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| cross vine |
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| virginia creeper - not a bloom, but it will certainly be a "star" when it puts on its fall colors |
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Hi Beth...you sure have a lot of stars in your garden! They are all lovely. I especially like the Cross Vine. Mine have never looked that pretty and you'd think they would considering they're a native!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers!
ReplyDeleteI have Blue Star but had forgotten its name - Thanks for reminding me!
Have a wonderful day!
Happy Wildflower Wednesday!
Lea
Lea's Menagerie
I never realized that most flowers are star-shaped. And you have a lot of them.
ReplyDeleteKalantikan, thanks for stopping by! Keep looking for stars!
DeleteI love seeing stars in my garden too! You have a beautiful collection of phlox too. At least the SOB doesn't grow here but I had to laugh because we have an invasive form of mustard in Central Texas that we call by a similar name!
ReplyDeleteShirley, thanks for stopping by. I know you're well ahead of us on Spring
Deleteweather in Texas. Happy gardening!
Hello there, Beth :-) More woodland Phlox – I love it, but pilosa looks great too. Can’t decide my fav here tonight – it’s between the pink oxalis (its leaves give it more points) and the amsonia. A lovely selection, my rosette finally goes to amsonia ‘blue star’ – when you see my allium profile pic you might guess I’d go with this one ;-)
ReplyDeleteShirley, thanks for stopping by. I saw your allium - I would like to have that. I have LOTS of amsonia, so it probably is my Star star!
ReplyDeleteFun post! I have both pilosa and woodland phlox, and enjoy their blooms. I grow a few kinds of Amsonia, too, and they are some of my favorites.
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