And yet...I did collect a pinch of seed! We grew this for years at the Gardens, but I think we renovated the garden it grew in one too many times: this is a picture of Heliomeris multiflora (long known as Viguera multiflora), a widespread composite of the Southern Rockies found in a wide range of xeric habitats from near desert up to montane meadows--this picture was taken in the carport of Kerry and Laura Kaster's wonderful home where we spent the weekend...(that's my sweetheart Jan, by the way, doing her Vanna thing.)
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The forms we grew in the past seemed to have squinnier flowers: this one was nearly 3" across! It is one of those strange plants that may be perennial--probably short lived. If you put it where it is happy, you will have more than enough. Forever.
Of course, the aspen were turning...and we saw many other flowers at Yampa River Botanic Park, which I will discuss in another place, at another time...if you check back, perhaps I shall even hyperlink it here...
But I end with this twilight image of the namesake rabbit ears of Rabbit Ears' pass...an area I have rhapsodized at another time...I didn't find a single stem of glacier lily this time (I hoped to gather seed)...the season was unusually hot this year. Maybe they aborted. Or were grazed...or maybe I didn't stop enough. The aspen were about a quarter turned, but did I take a picture (what was I thinking?).. I did manage this distant shot of those ears that fascinated me as a child--as distant as my childhood, as far as the moon really--since we were speeding away almost a hundred and fifty more miles and actually made it home by ten PM that night--we live in a strange and wonderful world!
We need world peace, and greater wisdom, and far less money spent on campaign advertising--especially by PACS and corporations! And I think we can use a vibrant DYC--vibrant indeed! When I Googled Viguera, lots of helpful sites on Viagra popped up, so to speak. As well....
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