White is my favorite color. I sometimes post six pictures of exclusively white flowers for Six on Saturday. Also, I posted six pictures of exclusively red flowers merely to show that I could. I might have tried other colors as well. I do not remember trying yellow though. California bay gave me the idea, although its bloom is rather unimpressive. Silver wattle is much more colorful. So is daffodil. Dandelion is merely a weed; but technically, silver wattle is also. Ultimately, I got four pictures of yellow flowers, a picture of an aberrative beet, and a picture of someone who might qualify as golden retriever light gold, which at least sounds yellow. He can not see most colors anyway.

1. Acacia dealbata, silver wattle is an aggressively naturalized exotic species. It certainly is pretty though. It typically blooms earlier, and maybe by New Year’s Day farther south.

2. Umbellularia californica, California bay does not bloom as prettily. Its flowers are too tiny, too sporadic and too high in its canopy to be prominent, but it blooms nonetheless.

3. Taraxacum officinale, dandelion, like silver wattle, is also an aggressively naturalized exotic species. It infests most lawns, and blooms to toss its seed whenever it wants to.

4. Narcissus pseudonarcissus, daffodil continues to bloom. Several are still budded. If it were not so variable with its bloom schedule from year to year, I would say that it is late.

5. Beta vulgaris, beet should be red, not yellow. ‘Detroit Dark Red’ is best! This seems to taste about the same, but looks like a sick carrot! I loathe carrots! Why do this to a beet?

6. Rhody remains unimpressed. He is no more interested in beets than carrots. He could be more concerned about the first of a few storms that should arrive in only a few hours.

This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/

23 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Hello Yellow”

  1. Wow, the Silver Wattle in that first photo is amazing! I have never seen this Acacia before. When you say it is aggressively naturalized, do you mean it is invasive? And the photo of Rhody is naturally lovely too! 😉

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    1. It is VERY invasive, and very difficult to kill. The picture is not very good. It just happened to be an easy picture to get. The bloom is amazingly bright yellow. The fragrance resembles that of an oil refinery, but I like it because it is familiar. Rhody is always the most popular of my pictures, of course.

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  4. Great minds thinking alike, and all that. My post for tomorrow also was to be titled “Hello, Yellow,” until I changed my mind. We have a gorgeous native, commonly called Huisache (Vachellia farnesiana), formerly Acadia farnesiana) that may begin blooming in a month or so. It’s fragrance is unbelievably sweet.

    I don’t know what to think about those beets. They remind of of the yellow or maroon carrots I see in the markets. Carrots should be orange.

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    1. Yellow is not my favorite floral color, but it is so cheery, and cheery people tend to like it. Cheery people also like purple. Perhaps I should feature purple when more purple flowers bloom this summer.

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    1. I could have guessed that it is your favorite. I just commented to someone else that, not only is it a cheery color, but also that cheery people tend to appreciate it. Sunflowers do not bloom until summer, and it is still winter here. We are supposed to add some this year because a feral sunflower within one of the landscapes was so popular last year.

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    1. No, they are not ‘bad’. It was a bit of rain and wind, but the creek downstairs did not even come up unusually high. Bad storms are rare, but about half of the storms nowadays justify major storm warnings. It is annoying.

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