Cute…..

How’d you like to have a garden full of these flowers?

Purple hooded wiener worts.

Tom, are those your new crappie plastics for getting the big girls?

Purple people eater snap dragons!

Well those are interesting!

BDR wrote:

Tom, are those your new crappie plastics for getting the big girls?

Not anytime soon. I’ll be leaving these alone.

Ok ill be the dumbass. Is that real?

Yup.

Yup it is or Yup it isn’t? I think you be messing with me.

i’d wager those are from his flower beds!!!!!!!!Tom don’t mess around when it comes to his garden and flowers!!!!!

JEREMY wrote:

Yup it is or Yup it isn’t? I think you be messing with me.

You asked if it was real and I replied yup. Not messing with you.

I’ll post the flower’s name when I get it tracked down.

Orchis Italica….Italian Orchid, native to the Mediterranean area.

Nicknamed the “hanging man flower”.

So now we know where BK gets his showmanship from.

Not much of a flower person but that thing is pretty interesting.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

Orchis Italica….Italian Orchid, native to the Mediterranean area.

ANOTHER Invasive Species!!!

Orchis a popping up all over but I really like your purple ones Tom!

…in a manly kinda way.

Ma is the flower gardener and I enjoy watching her in her world. Being a member of the orchid family this one caught my eye. Orchids can make some super weird flowers, this one no exception.

I like wild flowers and have Wild Bluebells and some Trout Lilies in a couple places in the yard gardens. I’ve had Showy Lady Slippers and Yellow Moccasin Flowers as well as Miniature Yellow Moccasin Flowers in one shaded bed that returned for several years before they died out. My all time favorite was a clump of Showy Orchids that hung on for almost 20 years. I harvested the clump while hunting for morels. I know where there is a wild bed of Showy Orchids and may go back and dig a couple to start again, but they’re so rare I may just leave them be and go back to enjoy them where they’re native.

And sorry Brian but not invasive. I think they don’t grow here or are unavailable here. Most Orchids have very specific growing needs and transcontinental movement probably nixes any chance of this coming here. But you can always do a photo spread to show the guys how you compare to the pictures. OR NOT.

Heavy on the OR NOT.