Flora Incipientis

For knittin', I got nuttin'. But for various and sundry flora bursting forth in the garden, I got sumpin'. These surprise me every year, rising up from a tangle of unpromising and often discolored leaves on stems that are nearly invisible until they suddenly open into this:


The agapanthus is rioting this year, having finally triumphed over their transplanting woes of a few years ago. We'll have more of these than we can count, opening great big spidery heads to the sun (do I seem to have an unhealthy obsession with spiders lately?):


Pink calla lilies are among my husband's favorites, and these (with lovely speckled leaves that thrive in the shade) have just opened into full flower:


But to my eye, the most wonderful of all is this one specific agapanthus (unlike most of the ones in our garden, it will flower white when it finally opens), which resembles nothing so much as a tall goose, her neck extended aggressively to protect a nest of young ones:

Flora imitating fauna.