Commercial, Advertising and Editorial Photography. Greensboro, North Carolina
(Photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My wife’s Thanksgiving cactus blooms on our sun porch. She was given the plant by my step-grandmother Lucy some 25 years ago. Don’t know how long Lucy had it before that. A Thanksgiving cactus is like a Christmas cactus, which blooms at Christmas, and an Easter cactus, which blooms at Easter, except a Thanksgiving cactus blooms at….
Happy Thanksgiving.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A cluster of sunflowers bloom in my neighbor’s garden in Randolph County, North Carolina earlier this summer.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A late summer purple coneflower from the garden.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Sunflowers bloom in a neighbor’s garden near Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
A water lily blooms in a neighbor’s pond near Grays Chapel in Randolph County, North Carolina.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
When we think about plants associated with old Southern home places, magnolia and wisteria come to mind. Another plant that is very familiar is hydrangea. This example is in full bloom just off our back deck. I’m not sure if I enjoy the blue and purples blooms better than the beautiful foliage.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Wild day-lilies bloom beside a corn field along a road near Millboro in rural Randolph County, North Carolina. I say wild, because even though the original stock probably started from garden plants at old homeplaces, day-lilies have spread along the roads and fields in our area, and during this time of year create a splash of color everywhere.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
My Great-Grandmother’s 100 year old magnolia tree is in full bloom now in our front yard in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. We are fortunate to have several original plants and trees from when our house was built around 1880. This particular magnolia is huge and measures about 60 feet in height. It is the perfect climbing tree as 3 generations of kids will attest. Now it’s the perfect spot for our chickens to scratch for bugs.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Black and white floral photograph of a yucca plant growing on Cape Henry, Virginia.
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
I live in my great-grandfather’s house on the family farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina, just south of Greensboro. My immediate family has lived on that farm for almost one hundred years. A lot of the plants and flowers around our house date back to or are part of the original root stock from those planted by my grandparents and great-grandparents. For instance, we have a huge English boxwood and a magnolia that have to be at least a hundred years old each. Outside of our bay window is a flower bed full of iris transplanted from my grandmother’s garden. They are an old fashioned variety and are now at their annual full bloom.
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