In Louisiana, "lagniappe" is the name for something extra a merchant gives you when you make a purchase. After our house purchase we are now getting the lagniappe in the form of blooming plants, shrubs and trees all over the yard. It's weird. I was brought up by Momma and Gammie to know the names of all plants. Here we're very generic at the moment. Shrub, tree and flower are the only names we have for a lot of the things springing up in our yard. Kinda fun, but I feel ignorant.
Michael took the picture of the house with the azalea bush. It is covered with bumblebees--the gigantic ones that are all fuzzy. They are in such a hurry to visit every flower, you can practically see their little foreheads furrowed. We have daffodils (or maybe jonquils or narcissus--see generic above.) You can see the bumblebee on the closeup azalea picture.
Mr. Chadwick, the previous owner, had no color scheme. Michael says he was just having fun. So we have all kinds of color right now from purplish pink to yellow to blue to orange.
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Wow! The flowers are great! I hope the bees keep their minds on the flowers, though. :)
They're pretty focused. I asked Michael where the hive was and he says that it's under the rock wall that runs by the driveway in our yard. We'll see if we can live and let live =)
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