A Yellow Alcea & First Frost

Yesterday Thursday, Rosemary walked in Kitsilano Beach after dinner (and after Rachel Maddow). It was a lovely late afternoon. We watched some beach volleyball games and noticed two very large Magnolia grandifloras growing not far from the salt-water pool. In spite of the nearby picnic barbecues we could note and enjoy their exquisite scent.
Back home I scanned an Alcea rosea (Hollyhock) which is growing in our little lane garden. For reasons that escape me the beautiful flowers drop to the ground after a couple of days. The flower has no scent.
The other scan is a bunch of flowers from Hosta ‘First Frost’. They exhibit that elegant lavender colour that is inherited from a one off botanical coupling between Hosta sieboldiana and Hosta tardiana. One of the most elegant of its many offsprings is Hosta ‘Halcyon’ and of course the variegated sport First Frost.

Originally published at blog.alexwaterhousehayward.com.

