My World: trees, berries, flowers

For years, I've called this "my little red tree" because I forgot its name,
and because it didn't grow very fast or very tall,
but now it is about as tall as I am, which is about five foot four, and...

today Dick and I planted this little fella, a "Red Baron Ninebark"
which is now my little red tree and Whatsitsname is my bigger red tree.

Another Whatsitsname. This is my mystery-berry bush. It might be some kind of cotoneaster, but its fruit is soft and is getting ripe, whereas...

I know this one is a cotoneaster, because I remember its name, and I also looked it up online. Its fruit is hard, and stays hard after ripening to a very dark color.

Blossoms on my "pink potentilla" bush. Most of the potentillas
I've seen since moving to Alberta 10 years ago have yellow
blossoms, so I'm very proud of my peachy-pink one, and...

I'm also proud of my white potentilla flowers!

I hardly have any fruit on my Nanking Cherry bushes
this year, although the fruit I do have is...

larger than usual.

My squash garden is blossoming, but I don't seem to be growing very many actual squashes.

Addendum: Thanks to two commenters, Carola B. and Jinksy, for suggesting my first Whatsitsname is a smoke bush. Jinksy further identified it as a cotinus coggyria Royal Purple, which indeed it is, but its common name"smoke bush" is easier for me to remember. Thanks, both of you!

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Green, green, it's green on Thursday Theme Song

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Green, green, it's green, they say,
On the far side of the hill.
Green, green, I'm goin' away
To where the grass is greener still.

The New Christy Minstrels, 1963

Brown, brown, it's brown they say
Out here, on the lone prair-ie,

Brown, brown, I'm goin' away
To where the grass is green to see.

Well, I told my daddy on the day I was ten,
Don't you cry when you see I'm twelve,
There ain't nobody gonna hold me then,
I'm gonna go away by myself.

I don't care if the sun goes down
Where I lay my weary head,
'Cause everywhere the ground is brown
I want to see it green instead.

EV'rybody now...

It's brown, brown, it's brown they say
Out here, on the lone prair-ie,
Brown, brown, I'm goin' away
To where the grass is green to see.

© Words and photos by Kay Davies, May, 2011   

After a long, cold winter, we've had a wet spring, so things are finally greening up

here at our home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play.

Behind the unfurling fern, you can see where blossoms fell from our ornamental crabapple tree (see previous post for a pink song).

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