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Gondor
Aug 28 2009, 10:18pm
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I'd like help identifying this remarkable flower.
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If this works - I've been trying for a couple hours...(thanks dernwyn)
I had to resize and all - but the image is good enough.
I took the picture in late spring here in So. Oregon. A shade loving rather tall bush. Anyone?
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Gondor
Aug 28 2009, 10:48pm
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I had no idea it was a laurel! So beautiful isn't it?
Thank you very much. I have been trying to post this pic for such a long time....
Do these grow in your part of the country?
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Magpie
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Aug 28 2009, 11:10pm
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I did a google image search for: white flower bush oregon
It's called 'laurel' which I think is another name for rhododendron, too. The leaves look like rhododendron. But I decided not to get all obsessive and look up whether they were related.
It's strange looking. Are the petals soft and pliable or waxy and firm?
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dernwyn
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Aug 28 2009, 11:49pm
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in New England are soft. Lovely, aren't they! When they come into full bloom, they are magnificent! They can grow tall enough to walk beneath them - which happens along some paths here.
We have rhododendron also, but the flowers tend to be single-color: http://www.naturehills.com/...rEx5wCFc9D5god9yMKLQ.
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silneldor
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Aug 29 2009, 1:20am
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At 1st glance it looks like Mountain Laural
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Good job Mar. You got it. Now you know more than i .
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silneldor
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Aug 29 2009, 1:31am
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of the mtn. laural that adores the mountainside in the spring here at the camp. It is very lovely.
delicate beauty
''What connects Nature to the spiritual, or requires the presence of the latter? In positive terms, as Alkis Kontos points out, when nature was still largely experienced as integral, alive and active, 'It was the spiritual dimension of the world, its enchanted, magical quality that rendered it infinite, not amenable to complete calculability; spirit could not be quanified; it permitted and invited mythologization.' And I would add, it still is and does.''
Patrick Curry-Defending Middle-Earth-Tolkien: Myth and Modernity - chapter: 'The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics.'
May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings!
In the air, among the clouds in the sky
Here is where the birds of Manwe fly
Looking at the land, and the water that flows
The true beauty of earth shows
With the stars of Varda lighting my way
In all the realms this is where I stay
In the realm of Manwë Súlimo
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dernwyn
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Aug 29 2009, 2:43am
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your rhododendron? We have a white and a purple. The purple came out in glorious color this spring, but the white just budded briefly, barely bloomed, and fizzled out!
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Magpie
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Aug 29 2009, 4:23am
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My rhodos are PJM
(not my photo)
The azalea is Northern Lights variety White Lights bred in MN.
http://www.maes.umn.edu/...mages/2865-V-043.jpg
I was kind of disappointed in the white flower for a long time. I wanted more color. After all, it's winter for practically 6 months here so we need color. But one spring morning, I looked out my 2nd floor bedroom window down into the back yard the azalea was in full bloom and the white was beautiful. So, it's kind of a subtle beauty that has to be viewed in the right circumstances.
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Mar
Gondor
Aug 29 2009, 3:01pm
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Yes, rhodies abound in this area too - some grow tall as trees. I have a couple pics I will try to post - with bumblebees on them - I have never seen the Moses flower - and the Passion flower I do recognize as I lived in Hawaii for quite some time - many years ago.
Well, I understand why the local nursery folks recommended I plant a mountain laurel in my yard!
Now I feel I am on a quest to take pics of unusual flowers to share.
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Aug 29 2009, 4:21pm
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Really unusual!
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Aug 29 2009, 4:54pm
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Being found in Oregon, I'll bet it would survive in my garden, too! :D
Then again... I kill silkflowers with my gardening skills. *sigh*
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