October 17, 2012

  • Hello, Autumn Flower! Then, the flower told me ....

      Bonjour, Fleur d ' Automne
     Hello , Autumn Flower !

     

    English version below the pictures

    Lors du dernier week – end une de mes filles rentrant du jardin me dit : » tu as de jolies fleurs jaunes , sur le côté de la pelouse juste avant le potager ». Je le savais mais j’ai honte de dire que j’ y avais jamais prêté beaucoup d’attention. Elles faisaient partie du décor.
     Intrigué je décidais d’aller les observer de plus près . Effectivement il y avait là une belle population de fleurs jaunes.
     Elles me dirent «  bonjour,Michel, cela fait des années que tu passes sans même nous regarder et aujourd’hui tu viens spécialement nous voir . Nous somme très honorées « .  Je me sentais pas très à l’ aise .

    population de fleurs jaunes
     les belles fleurs jaunes ,vivaces/ Beautiful perennial yellow flowers  October 2012  Photo.M.Fauquet

     During the last weekend one of my daughters  came home from the  garden and  told me: "you have pretty yellow flowers on the side of the lawn just before the  vegetable garden." I knew  but I am ashamed to say that I'd never paid much attention. They were part of the decor.

    Intrigued I decided to go and take a closer look. Actually there was a great population of yellow flowers.

    They told me "Hi, Michael, it's been years that you pass in front of us without even looking at us and now you come especially to see us. We are very honored ". I was not very comfortable

    L’ une d’ elles se rapprocha et dit « connais-tu mon nom ? « 

    -hm …. » Tu sais j’ ai la mémoire courte » , lui dis je . En fait je connaissais son nom de famille «  Composées alias astéracées , famille des Asters  mais c’ est tout .
     Elle me dit « cueille - moi et tu auras tout le temps de me connaître mieux à ta maison. »
      -« je fus charmé par cette proposition « 
    Je la cueillis donc et armé du grand livre de botanique ( un livre appelé flore ) je passais bien une heure à trouver qui elle était . Vous savez les composées jaunes donnent le mal de tête aux botanistes .Finalement j’ ai trouvé le nom d’HELIOPSIS  ( ce qui signifie qui a l’ aspect du soleil ) ..
      Elle semblait heureuse avec ce nom mais je restais quand même sur un petit nuage de doute

     

    heliopsis hélianthus
    Heliopsis helianthoides                  photo Michel Fauquet October 2012

      One of them approached and said, "you know my name? '

    - “ hum... You know I have a short memory," I told her. In fact I knew her family  name : Asteraceae aka Compositae, Asters' family but that's all.

     She said, "pick me,  and get me all the time to know me better at your house. '

    - "I was charmed by this proposition"

     So I picked it and with a  big book of botany I spent a good hour to find out who she was. You know the yellow Composites give headache to botanists. Finally I have found the name HELIOPSIS (which means that has the appearance of the sun) ..

    She seemed happy with that name but I still was on a small cloud of doubt.

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    Up date October 17, 2012

     Puis la fleur me dit
    Then, the flower( Heliopsis) told me.

     Ensuite, une brise légère pencha Heliopsis, la fleur jaune, vers moi et elle me caressa la joue. A ce moment, je l'ai entendue murmurer à mon oreille «As-tu dit bonjour à mes amis?" En fait, non. J’ étais venu pour elle, elle seule. Mais cela m'a incité à aller plus loin dans le jardin
        La première rencontre était une grande tache rouge sur un buisson vert. Fascinant ! Nous sommes en Octobre. C'était la vigne vierge en robe rouge qui envahissait le buisson de laurier. J'ai été ravie de ces couleurs vives et contrastées. Fascinant ! Quel regret de ne pas avoir prêté attention à cette beauté ignoré! Ma femme utilise une feuille de ce laurier pour faire la tarte," secret de famille "( seulement une feuille  et pas de n’importe quel laurier ).

    vigne vierge dans laurier
    vigne vierge dans le laurier à tarte  Virginian creeper in the laurel bush

      A light breeze made Heliopsis, the yellow flower, bended towards  me and she gave a caress on my cheek . At this moment I heard her who whispered at my ears " Did you tell hello to my friends ? "  In fact , no . I was connected with she, only she . But this incited me to go further in the garden

      The first met was a large red spot on green bush . Fascinating !. We are in October . It was the Virginian creeper in red dress  that was invading the bush of laurel . I was thrilled with  those bright colors in contrast.. Fascinating!. What a regret to not have paid attention to this ignored beauty ! My wife uses a leaf of this laurel to make in the family secret custard pie (only one leaf and   not from every kind of laurel)


     

     

    En rentrant chez moi, j'ai rencontré un pélargonium accroché à l'antique poulailler  notre seule poule qui était nommée Mauricette a vécu il y a quelques années. Cette fleur était modeste, mais m’a donné une impression artistique quand je l'ai regardé en particulier.

    De  retour à la maison j'ai eu un dernier regard pour le petit dahlia qui va bientôt être arraché (à cause du gel) et aux  petite roses rouges polyantha. Enfin, je surpris un groupe de fleurs cultivées par ma femme  Janine qui se tenaient au chaud sous les derniers rayons du soleil d'automne.
     
    Seul un poète serait capable de mettre en vers ces fugitives et délicates impressions .


    pelargonium
     Pelargonium

    roses et dahlias

     

     

     


    Dahlias and roses polyanthas
    fleurs de Janine
    Fleurs de Janine au chaud . Janine ' s flowers  keeping warm.

     On my way home I met a pelargonium hanging on antic hen house where our only one hen named "Mauricette" lived some years ago . This flower was modest but gave some artistic impression when I looked at it especially.

     

       Back home I had a last look at the dahlia that will soon be removed from the ground (because of frost) and small red roses polyantha. Finally, I overheard a group of flowers grown by my wife Janine and were themselves keeping warm in the last rays of the autumn sun

     

     A poet would be needed to write in verses those fugitive, inexpressible impressions .

     

Comments (79)

  • Gorgeous flowers! I know what it's like to ignore what is growing in my yard. Sometimes the city reminds me by sending me a letter telling me to cut it down.

  • Good Afternoon, Michel.

    Lovely flowers so long neglected finally find respect.

    Loved your writing style telling this story.

    thanks

    frank

  • They were very polite to you. Some flowers would have spewed poison gas on you and drawn you into their deadly embrace. Okay, not many flowers will do that, but be careful anyway!

  • My daughter had some that looked like that in front of her trailer. We called them Black-eyed Susans, but I don't know what they really were. Her then gentleman friend (now her husband) thought they were weeds and got rid of them

  • Such a cute post. Enjoyed your conversation with the flowers

  • So very pretty!! I :heartbeat: them!!

  • Such pretty flowers. We have them here, too. We call them daisys. I loved your story about them.

  • I think the bees call this flower what a different name, unless they are Greeks bees, but you're not a bee of course.
    It is like they want to keep the sun a little longer.

    Amitié

    Carlo

  • It seems only proper that you should be on first name basis with those that reside in your garden. Thanks for sharing. I've been working on a rock project, again. Unfortunately it is a front yard project and I have resolved to never post photos of the fronts of mine or my neighbor's houses. I gather the largest rocks I can carry from the river wash behind my house and arrange them like a puzzle in my neighbor's former weed patch. My fellow nearby residents appreciate my handiwork. So far I have filled in strips that were impossible to cultivate, built a small wall and am now working on a walkway between the gate and the front door. It's great fun and hopefully will stave off osteoporosis.

  • If I had heliopsis growing in my yard I would pick them and put a bouquet of them on my desk everyday :heartbeat: have a wonderful weekend Michel ~ ilym :sunny:

  • So, you now talk to flowers?

  • This reminds me ofmy father, he finds the plants that provide food beautiful but doesn't seem to notice the plants that are decorative. My mothernis opposite she loves decorative olants but the plants that provide food she always mistakes as weeds. I take after both all plants are beautiful to me.
    Your friend,

    Karen

  • It's good to know the flowers were still friendly after some neglect. It's the hallmark of a truly lovely plant.

  • It is a beautiful flower. So glad she spoke to you!

  • I knew the name when I saw them in a field and my Mother pointed them out to me....but I got it wrong. I was calling them coreopsis. I will have to tell my Mom it is Heliopsis. They are beautiful no matter what the name is.

  • I have the same flowers growing along side my vegetable garden beside the driveway. At least they look the same, very tall with many yellow heads, and they come up every year, requiring very little care.

  • She is beautiful and makes my heart smile with thoughts of the bright golden sunlight of an August Summer day.

  • Ty for your comments on my sons progress and the mushroom.

  • Beautiful flowers! I'm so glad you figured out their name!

  • they are pretty flowers!

  • We share your interest in the beauty around us. May we always be young!

  • Sunflowers are really charming. They're in one of the plantings in the park here every year, and they seem to attract the finches, which I think makes them doubly nice.

  • I think it is nice of Mother Nature to give us a little more "sunshine" in the Fall! There can be lots of grey, cloudy days this time of year, and we lose the sun a little earlier every day,but yellow flowers and yellow leaves can help fill in for the sun (or lack thereof).

  • Bonjour Heliopsis,

    Elle est une belle fleur. Je pense qu'elle porte bien son nom, aussi. Elle a l'aparance de la soleil. C'est drole comme nous pouvons voir quelque chose sans l'apercevoir.

    She is a beautiful flower. I think she is well names, as well, she has the appearance of the sun. It's funny how we can see something without noticing it.

    (Je ne suis pas certain de ma francais, si j'ecris en anglais, aussi)

  • How often we forget to enjoy the beauty!

  • To know flowers is to love them.

  • It's interesting how often we can pass something and not notice! Then one day we do stop and see, or have someone bring this to our attention! Those really are beautiful yellow flowers! They have pretty, bright "faces".

  • Thank you for sharing such a beautiful patch of flowers. Afraid I would of been picking them for the house already. :giggle:

  • Did you know the name comes from the word heliotropism, meaning flower's movement facing the sun?
    The flowers are GORGEOUS!
    Les fleurs sont belles
    I hope I said that right =)
    Have a good weekend!

  • merci pour ce poste poétique... )
    oui, les fleurs jaunes restent longtemps, elles accumulent du soleil peut-être... ))

  • We consider those sunflowers weeds because they grow spontaneously everywhere. My mom says the difference between a weed and a flower is that a weed grows where you DON'T want it and a flower is more civilized. Otherwise they are equally beautiful. I think we should learn to use them for bio fuel because they grow to be twelve feet high in one season, as fast as hemp.

  • Michel, the flowers are beautiful and so glad that now they have a name. :)

  • Yellow flowers...so bright and sunny.  They smile at me.  I have yellow gerbera daisies in my front yard.   I would like to have at least 500 gerbera daisies!!  They also make nice cutting flowers for bouquets.  The 2 cats that I have now allow me to bring in flowers.

    When Jolie and Sasha were alive, they were flower and plant crazy and I couldn't bring flowers or plants inside.  I would have to put them in a china cabinet behind glass where they couldn't get too them.  Flowers are so cheery, especially yellow flowers.  Perhaps they capture the sunshine(well, since you are a botony major, you know that they do ....

    Thanks for your comment.  I will write again.

    Love,

    votre amie

    Francoise

  • Ty so very much for your warm comments on my post and tribute to my Mom.

  • Bright summer sun. Some plants make you smile don't they. Glad you finally noticed their beauty

  • I love flowers too! Beautiful!

  • They are quite lovely!  Perhaps you were inspired to study them by the ones you recognized on my post ~ at the beach.  You have done a wonderful study ~

  • poor flowers! :lookaround:they were ignored by michel! but glad you spent time learning about them. yea! :laugh: lovely to read this! i need to do another blog...once isla goes to school tomorrow. hehe :yes:bonne nuit@! william and isla are already in bed. i need to get in bed too! :goodjob: :love:

  • Answer to fwren above : I am not quite sure this post has been inspired by the yours about the beach but those flowers look strangeley alike. your post was wonderful . 

  • So you talk to your flowers too.  Now I feel that I'm in good company.  Some of my flowers, I had to scold them to get them to try to do their best.  Some got to work and delighted my eyes, others said  'forget it"  and did as they pleased.   Weather wasn't favorable for growing anything this year except for cabbage, swiss chard and onions. 

    You and Janine have a pleasant week.  Your bright happy yellow flowers were a delight to the eye...................<3  Marilyn

  • :heartbeat: :heartbeat:Lovely flower conversations to pass the time and yet you educate us on the name of a whimsical sunshine flower. Heliopsis. Beautiful Sun!! :heartbeat: :heartbeat: I have posted some more beach pictures from my vacation today. :)

  • and I was going to show you my highschool graduation picture here.

  • Answer to  Ata grandma  about weeds: in fact the weeds are the wild plants which would grow spontaneously on a land but they bother the gardener so he takes them away  . They are the delights of the botanist who studies them and have also many  properties in medicine but they must be known

  • Ty so very much for you warm comments on my Lost It post Michel.

  • Gorgeous flower! Love the pic. =)

  • I posted two comments, the second one's profile pic was the graduation picture. Could you see it? :) Not actually a link. I am sorry to worry you. :heartbeat:

  • Flowers blooming in Autumn to say their last good-bye till spring.

  • I love the way you had the flowers talking to you and us Its wonderful how the gardens can keep on giving us colour as winter starts on its way

  • Oh how pretty Michel.   You are still being blessed with the colors of the life of spring.  Enjoy!!

  • Thank you! :shysmile:

  • Beautiful flowers! Much more beautiful than that spider! :lol: It would be interesting to know the secret custard pie recipe.

  • I think you do as well as a poet in describing these beautiful flowers. Your yard and garden are so pretty! It must be refreshing to look around and would take some of the cares of the day away. The yellow flowers are well named for the sun and they are cheerful too. Thank you for sharing your garden bouquets with us.

  • I think you did as well as any poet would have. How lovely to have flowers blooming in the fall.

  • I love that you talk to your flowers. I do the same thing, however they seldom talk back to me! I love this post and the beautiful pictures It always amazes me that God has given us so much beauty. We must always remember to appreciate and enjoy our world

  • Oh, they are pretty. I am glad to hear you have a good relationship with your flowers. I do not get on well with plants because I am always forgetting their names and forgetting to water them. I content myself with looking at my mom's plants, because she is much better with them. :)

  • God these are gorgeous!  I just love your posts. =)  RYC:  I saw that picture and then wrote the post because we were getting bummed out that every restaurant in the Des Moines area was packed.  By the time we got to this restaurant, we were famished and it had a shorter wait time.  So the glass, even though half full of water, was also half full of air, so it was full in the philosophica point that we didn't have to wait longer or find another restaurant. 

    I really like to stay home mostly because I'm comfortable.  Trying new places isn't something I like to do, but my coworkers talked highly of this place.  It was quite the experience, but the food was phenomenal.  Not really a lobster nor a steak person but the sweet potatoe casserole was amazing.  We celebrated early but my anniversary is actually on October 31.  Yep...starting to feel pretty old. ;)

  • Only a poet or a painter .... Monet would have done some good work in your garden.
    Pelargonium are called "modeste" but they are not, they are superb.

    Vivaldi music would be good too to go with thephotos.

    Amotié

    Carlo

  • You do indeed have some wonderful flowers around your home, Michel. I love the way you tell the story, too, in how they are conversing with you! Mother Nature does indeed speak!

    Best wishes, my friend!

  • You have a lot of color left for this time of year! I am sure all the lovely flowers are grateful for the care they received and are giving it back to you.

  • michel- loved your musings about the flowers. you have such a wonderful style of writing, drawing the reader in to your story, giving words that describe and express thoughts . thanks for sharing your pictures and thoughts with your friends in cyberspace.

  • Thank you for a trip through your garden. I wish I could really visit but will have to be happy with this one. :goodjob:

  • I love the way you have talked about these beauties Michel. They are fabulous.

  • You garden always inspires me. Thank you for sharing it!

  • I am happy that the lovely yellow flowers got your attention. Thank you for sharing the yellow flowers photos as well as the others. RYC: I'm sorry I don't have time to post very often, but I will try to complete the series on Proverbs. "Casting lots" did seem to be a common way that decisions were made during ancient times. Another commentor pointed out that the early church used a similar system to chose the one who would replace Judas so that there still would be 12 apostles.  ~~Blessings to you & family.

  • Such beautiful color. Our creator is awesome...We have so much beauty that surrounds us. God has given the responsibility to mankind to take care of His creation.

    You are doing your part ...for sure. Flowers do speak to us.

    My mother always felt that by working in the garden , she was working hand in hand with God.

    RYC: I know that the French have the very best way to celebrate "Noel"...it is the time we set apart to remember that our Savior was born as a baby. We should honor that day instead of cluttering it up with all sorts of trivial glitz.. I wish we here in the USA would adopt the French manner of celebrating this Holy day.

  • You deserve a lovely rose.

  • TY so very much for your comments on my Halloween post.

  • The flowers are just amazing... the colors so vivid! :sunny:

  • Ty so very much on your comment on my aging post Michel:)

  • Don't you love it when your flowers talk to you?  Mine usually say, "it's about time you got here with that water hose."  Beautiful post!

  • Je suis ici en Italie!
    I cannot believe how warm it is here! I had no idea that October would be so lovely!
    Today will be 27C here in Florence!
    This is August weather for us.
    The flowers are all blooming still - it's wonderful!
    I can't imagine how hot it is in the summer, though, and no air conditioning - I WOULD MELT!
    Lovely post, Michel :)

  • What an enjoyable post. It is good to see another person besides me who talks to flowers! Enjoy what blessing these beauties have for you the season.

  • Beautiful flowers.. every single one of them!

    Christy

  • Splendide post et fleurs :sunny:
    Que de poésie autour de qui veut bien prendre le temps de regarder :heartbeat:

  • Such beauty in all of God's creations! Love, Nancy

  • Bonsoir Michel, je reviens ici après une période de temps très fatiguante et douloureuse, parce que malgré tous mes efforts pendant toute l'été, je n'ai pu rien faire pour mon frère les plus jeune, le dernier de nous cinq. Il est mort le 21 septembre, après une courte et cruelle maladie. Les médecins n'ont pu rien faire pour lui. Il avait 53 ans, et était comme un fils pour moi...  
    Mais venons à nous, ou mieux à toi: il me paraît que tes fleurs si charmants soient des "jerusalem artichokes" (heliantus tuberosus) autrement appelés ici "Topinambur". 
    Ses racines (tubercules) sont commestibles et aussi curatives, soit cuits (frits comme de pommes de terre et avec un ou deux oeufs dessus, ou en crème avec des croûtons de pain frits dans du beurre) et aussi nature, en salade ou en "pinzimonio (=vinaigrette)" (à morceaux trempés dans de l'huile d'olive extra vierge, un peu de sel et du poivre, un peu comme pour vos radis). La saison pour la cueillette de ces tubercules va de l'automne à la fin de l'hiver-debut du printemps.

    J'espère d'avoir un peu plus de temps dans le futur, mais j'en doute parce que maintenant j'ai le nouveau né à garder le long de la semaine, et après les heures de l'école maternelle j'ai aussi "les grands" (cinq ans e quatre ans et demi). Mais, comme tu vois, je ne t'ai pas oublié.

    Une fraternelle accolade à toi et à toute ta famille. Ciao.

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