Heather! Yes?
A plant with deep romantic meaning for us seaside folk (well, supposedly -- it’s all about how prettily the heather blooms beneath the shadow of the pines on the white sand dune, etc., etc.).
Lovely shots.
I love it when snow combines with colourful life, that doesn’t happen often here.
rqsays
Heather is actually quite lovely in that it keeps its colour even when thoroughly dried (still have a sprig from the summer on my windshield), so for quite extended periods well into autumn and early winter weather, you can catch spots of pink brightness around (if there is little or no snow).
Heather is forever popular here for this “colour in times everything else is grey and brown” quality as well.
I quite like the colour and the different varieties. Funny enough, the German name is a woman’s name as well “Erika”
Ice Swimmersays
The vivid colour of the flowers and the fine crystals of ice are exquisite.
In Finnish, heather is kanerva. It’s more common as a surname, but it’s also a woman’s given name (and a beautiful one, IMO, even if some of the male politicians with surname Kanerva aren’t my favourite guys).
rqsays
In Latvian it’s “virši”, which can be a surname and is also the name of one of the local fuel distributors (so we have gas stations going by that name). It’s one of those collective nouns like pants or scissors, pretty much doesn’t occur in the singular.
Trip Space-Parasitesays
If heather flowers keep their color well, it seems like they should make good dye, but I wasn’t able to find much about it through Google.
Trip Space-Parasite, that’s not a good indicator of a plant based dye. Unless properly done, most plants will only yield a brown dye, if anything at all.
Trip Space-Parasitesays
Caine, thanks. I knew most plants don’t make useful dyes, but figured a colorful molecule that lasted inside the plant would be shiny outside it as well. Apparently neither botany nor chemistry work the way I expect! Oh the tragedy! Oh the cruel betrayal!
Heather! Yes?
A plant with deep romantic meaning for us seaside folk (well, supposedly -- it’s all about how prettily the heather blooms beneath the shadow of the pines on the white sand dune, etc., etc.).
Lovely shots.
I love it when snow combines with colourful life, that doesn’t happen often here.
Heather is actually quite lovely in that it keeps its colour even when thoroughly dried (still have a sprig from the summer on my windshield), so for quite extended periods well into autumn and early winter weather, you can catch spots of pink brightness around (if there is little or no snow).
Heather is forever popular here for this “colour in times everything else is grey and brown” quality as well.
I quite like the colour and the different varieties. Funny enough, the German name is a woman’s name as well “Erika”
The vivid colour of the flowers and the fine crystals of ice are exquisite.
In Finnish, heather is kanerva. It’s more common as a surname, but it’s also a woman’s given name (and a beautiful one, IMO, even if some of the male politicians with surname Kanerva aren’t my favourite guys).
In Latvian it’s “virši”, which can be a surname and is also the name of one of the local fuel distributors (so we have gas stations going by that name). It’s one of those collective nouns like pants or scissors, pretty much doesn’t occur in the singular.
If heather flowers keep their color well, it seems like they should make good dye, but I wasn’t able to find much about it through Google.
Trip Space-Parasite, that’s not a good indicator of a plant based dye. Unless properly done, most plants will only yield a brown dye, if anything at all.
Caine, thanks. I knew most plants don’t make useful dyes, but figured a colorful molecule that lasted inside the plant would be shiny outside it as well. Apparently neither botany nor chemistry work the way I expect! Oh the tragedy! Oh the cruel betrayal!