last day of sale
Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm by annie | Subscribe to this post's RSS feedYou can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
just a little reminder that today is the last day of our “first sale on etsy anniversary sale!” (quite a mouthful there). use coupon code “bananas” if you are shopping here or wait for a revised invoice if you are shopping on etsy. last chance for 25% off that piece you’ve been eyeing!
we are leaving for my first wholesale show early friday morning. i am, surprisingly, calm. okay. so i’m swinging from calm to wildly panicy and i happen to be in my calm state right now. as far as my preparations go, it’s all about crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s at this point. as i type that sentence, i moved a little towards panicy. . .
i realized this morning that i forgot to make weekend arrangements for the lovely joey and dottie. oh dear. the poor pooches! hopefully, they will have sitters by the end of the day. we played a little fetch at the park this morning and picked up this fruit on the way home. remember that HUGE flower from a few posts ago? voila, the fruit from that tree. you are right, readers, it must be a magnolia as i have a smaller version of this fruit from a different magnolia tree.
details and fruit
you’re right that what you found on the ground is a magnolia pod. When they ripen, they turn brown and these beautiful shiny red seeds are nestled inside!
While we were at Disney World last week, our son saw these pods hanging from a tree. Mark picked one and for the rest of the week we wondered what they were. Imagine my surprise to find a picture of the pod we picked on your blog today!
It’s cone that houses the seeds from the evergreen Magnolia grandiflora tree, which is native to the southern states (yes, I work at a nursery sometimes). After reading your original post with the HUGE-A**(!) flower, I thought I’d take a picture of a beautiful one up here for you. But first I had to get a little closer to smell the flower because, as you know, they are heavenly. So I leaned in to take a whiff and suddenly felt what seemed to be two red hot pokers stabbing me in the back of my arm! It turned out there was a new hornet nest hidden under the leaf cluster below the flower and a couple hornets decided to take an attack out on me because I was too close to their home. I gave up the picture at that point and have walked the long way around the tree ever since. Eh, it’s the thought that counts, right?
Oh man! What a raw deal! Many thanks though for the actual name of the tree - there are so many magnolia varieties, and one thing the internet hasn’t quite conquered is plant identification.