Meepmeep
So yesterday I had grand plans of showing you a bird that frequents our backyard (I always type backyarn and have to fix it) and titled the post. Then I promptly forgot to post about the bird! Before I forget again
This is a roadrunner. Meepmeep. He hangs out near the roses, strutting his stuff, eating bugs and lizards and maybe a rattlesnake (I haven’t seen one and hope not to). I’m a little disappointed that I have yet to hear him meepmeep. There’s a little irony in that we’ve been told our dog is part coyote. Get it? Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner? No? Okay, well, I was amused. A little side story to this is that the previous owner told me that one of the things we might see is a roadrunner. I was trying to tell The Man all the things she told me we might see and I couldn’t remember roadrunner. All I could think was that it was something that wasn’t real or would ever be seen in these parts, something like sasquatch, or a silverback gorilla. Again, amusing to me.
Anyone know what these are?
They’re around 6 feet tall, have huge leaves, and the stems are a dark red/purple. I don’t know if I’m supposed to cut these when the blooms fall off or if I’m supposed to leave them alone.
Same with these.
They’re only about 4 feet tall, have green stems instead of red, and the leaves aren’t huge like the previous ones. Most of them are yellow with spots, with only a couple that are two toned like this one.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
In all the many times I’ve been out west, I’ve never seen a roadrunner. Lucky you! And while I love to photograph flowers, I have no idea, except they look like the lilies my son planted in his yard.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Wile is so baffled by Roadrunner - ya gotta luv it! As far as the flowers go, I can find out. My mom had those all along the east side of her house. She would use the flowers for cut flower arrangements. The ones she left on the plant were cut back after the bloom died. I remember those plants because they were really thick and I would hide my clarinet in them before heading off to school.
August 9th, 2007 at 4:28 am
They might be cana lilies. Pretty! Roadrunners are smaller than I thought.
Does Wile E. Bella seem interested in chasing the roadrunners?
August 11th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Aren’t those bearded lilies?
Look here: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~fortney/flowers/iris/image-index.html
August 13th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Those are Cana Lilies. They’re great! They thrive even if they’re in direct sunlight and you forget to water them. And they come back…every. friggin. year.
Enjoy!
August 13th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Want me to send you more canas? I dug up about 10000000000000 of them last fall, threw them away and they’re all back with a vengeance. They love California, don’t know why they’re in my freaking yard in GA. I can’t rid myself of them. Very pretty, but not my kind of thing. La’s right, mine are in direct sunlight, I would have to be drowning before I watered them, I even mow them down when I cut the grass. If I could get one native plant, such as a gardenia, to grow a fraction so well, I’d be happy. Still, I think you’d like them. I’m planning to mail them to you in autumn, I hope you have a trowel handy. If not, just throw them in the garbage-they’ll grow where you didn’t want them anyway.