Comments on: More “Other Colors of Spring” http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-15/456 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Tamara Steiner http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-15/456#comment-14496 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:23:05 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-15/456#comment-14496 We are a community newspaper in Clayton, CA. Our garden columnist wrote on the flowering quince for the upcoming issue and we would like to request permission to use the flowering quince photo on this blog page to illustrate her column. We will give full credit including your Website. Please let me know ASAP - by tomorrow afternoon, 2/15, end of day, as we are under deadline. Thank you Tamara Steiner, Publisher Clayton Pioneer 925-672-0500 We are a community newspaper in Clayton, CA. Our garden columnist wrote on the flowering quince for the upcoming issue and we would like to request permission to use the flowering quince photo on this blog page to illustrate her column. We will give full credit including your Website.

Please let me know ASAP - by tomorrow afternoon, 2/15, end of day, as we are under deadline.

Thank you
Tamara Steiner, Publisher
Clayton Pioneer
925-672-0500

]]> by: Peter http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-15/456#comment-4204 Tue, 15 May 2007 09:37:12 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-15/456#comment-4204 Years ago I wrote an article about plant-hunting on Yakushima, and received a delightful letter from an elderly American botanist who'd explored there years before: "I read your Yakushima story with exceptional and vicarious pleasure..." - and that's exactly how I enjoy your blog - and not just the plant photographs. <span class='jfriedl'>That's very kind praise, thank you. I have to say, though, that while I enjoy pretty flowers like anyone else, hearing of your enjoyment is the greater vicarious pleasure for me. Just because of your one comment some time ago, I found myself enjoying photographing flowers more. —Jeffrey</span> These plants: well, 'Everyone's favorite weed' is a sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceus, not a dandelion as you may have thought. By the way, have you some across the white-flowered dandelions in Japan? They are not common, I think, in fact I only saw them in South Korea, but they are quite a novelty! <span class='jfriedl'>They really look like dandelions to me (<i>tanpopo</i> 蒲公英 in Japanese). Of course, my greatest botanical feat is to differentiate between an orange and a tangerine, so perhaps I should take your word for it. :-)</span> The three shrubs with little white flowers are a Spiraea, perhaps S. thunbergii (for Carl Thunberg, wrote an early treatise on Japanese plants, 'Flora Japonica', in 1784). <span class='jfriedl'>Including those in the "Little White Flowers" picture? I didn't realize that they were the same.</span> You're bang-on with the azalea! Little purple flower: periwinkle (Vinca major, not a Japanese plant). Little pink: a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa I think, a cultivated variety By the way, the <a href='http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-14/455' rel="nofollow">Edgeworthia</a> is 三椏 in Japanese <span class='jinline'>(lit. "three tree joints")</span>, according to <a href='http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html' rel="nofollow">Edict</a>: the name may mean something to you or to Fumie. I think it refers to the tendency to branch into three at each joint. Edgeworthia is quite closely related to daphnes which are well-known in Western gardens. <span class='jfriedl'>Thanks so much, Peter... you don't disappoint! —Jeffrey</span> Years ago I wrote an article about plant-hunting on Yakushima, and received a delightful letter from an elderly American botanist who’d explored there years before: “I read your Yakushima story with exceptional and vicarious pleasure…” - and that’s exactly how I enjoy your blog - and not just the plant photographs.

That’s very kind praise, thank you. I have to say, though, that while I enjoy pretty flowers like anyone else, hearing of your enjoyment is the greater vicarious pleasure for me. Just because of your one comment some time ago, I found myself enjoying photographing flowers more. —Jeffrey

These plants: well, ‘Everyone’s favorite weed’ is a sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceus, not a dandelion as you may have thought. By the way, have you some across the white-flowered dandelions in Japan? They are not common, I think, in fact I only saw them in South Korea, but they are quite a novelty!

They really look like dandelions to me (tanpopo 蒲公英 in Japanese). Of course, my greatest botanical feat is to differentiate between an orange and a tangerine, so perhaps I should take your word for it. :-)

The three shrubs with little white flowers are a Spiraea, perhaps S. thunbergii (for Carl Thunberg, wrote an early treatise on Japanese plants, ‘Flora Japonica’, in 1784).

Including those in the “Little White Flowers” picture? I didn’t realize that they were the same.

You’re bang-on with the azalea!

Little purple flower: periwinkle (Vinca major, not a Japanese plant).

Little pink: a flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa I think, a cultivated variety

By the way, the Edgeworthia is 三椏 in Japanese (lit. “three tree joints”), according to Edict: the name may mean something to you or to Fumie. I think it refers to the tendency to branch into three at each joint. Edgeworthia is quite closely related to daphnes which are well-known in Western gardens.

Thanks so much, Peter… you don’t disappoint! —Jeffrey

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