Monday, April 28, 2014

Purple With Ice Cream On Top

Tiny flowers in our front yard. I left the original file quite large, so the image ought to be worth a click. Enjoy!
Since this little guy is in my front yard, I ought to know what it is, but I don't. I'm going to have to call my flower and gardening expert mom to find out.

Moms. You never stop needing them.

5 comments:

tim eisele said...

I'm always amused by flower clusters where the ones in the middle are a different color than the rest. Like the "Queen-Anne's-Lace" that we have around here, with a flat cluster of tiny white flowers - except for a single purple one right in the middle.

That said, I don't know what kind of flower this is, either.

tim eisele said...

Although, poking around for "small purple 4-petal flower", a good candidate looks to be Alyssum - it comes in both white and purple forms, and the purple form tends to have white blossoms in the cluster as well.

http://tinsleypic.com/2013/08/15/alyssium-flower/

K T Cat said...

Bingo! It's Alyssum, alright. Give yourself a cigar, a Kewpie doll or giant Hello Kitty baloon!

Thanks, amigo.

tim eisele said...

You should call your mom anyway, though :)

K T Cat said...

LOL!