La VIE en ROSE

Cette semaine c'est le festival Divers/Cité à Montréal (Festival Divers/Cité); La presse parle du tourisme rose alors, j'ai pensé faire un blog en rose aujourd'hui.  De plus le ROSE est aussi la couleur associée à la lutte contre le cancer du sein. Si vous voulez faire un don allez au: Fondation canadienne du cancer du sein.  Donc allons-y pour le ROSE.

Pink, the ultimate girl color; when it comes to flowers, I personally think it is the most flamboyant and vibrant.  It is hard to miss a pink flower; it just stands out from everything else around it.  You will see what I mean when you look at the pictures.

Rosier rugueux

Ronce odorante

Let's start with two that look alike and are from the Rosacées family.  First, le Rosier rugueux or Wild Rose and then la Ronce odorante or Purple-flowering Rasberry.  This last one does not produce eatable fruits and its leaves look like the ones of a Maple tree. They are both beautiful.  

                                                 

Salicaire commune

Here is a very common flower seen along our roads: la Salicaire commune or Purple Loosestrife.  Some of us have them in our flower garden.  It's funny that I don't remember seeing them before the last couple of years.  I guess if you don't look, you don't find.
















La Gesse à feuilles larges or Perennial Pea belongs to the Fabacées family or Pea family; the same family as the Lotier cormiculé that I showed you in the "Special yellow flower" posting.  If you compare both of them you'll see that they look very much alike.


Gesse à feuilles larges

Liseron des haies

Who does not know the Morning Glory?  A flower that blooms in the morning and fades in the afternoon.  I remember planting them as a kid and waiting every morning to see if they had bloomed.  Here is the wild version: le Liseron des haies or Hedge Bindweed.  Don't be fooled, this one is perennial and invasive compare to its more civilized annual sibling.

Asclépiade incarnate

The color of these flowers is amazingly rich.  When they say purple is the color of kings here is what I have in mind.  If you look closely there are little curved horns that encircle the corona of the flower.  By the way, they are called Asclépiade incarnate or Swamp Milkweed.

This one, called Oeillet arménia or Deptford Pink, I identified last year but, did not have a picture of it.  This year, remembering the area where I found it, I looked carefully to see if I could see it again and take a good picture.  It is a small flower and it took many takes to get one that shows its details.

Oeillet arméria

I had been searching for the two last ones of La vie en Rose series.  When I found them, I was jumping up and down with excitement.  It's funny because I found la Mauve musquée (Musk Mallow) on a vacant lot next to one of my neighbors.  I found Kalmia a feuilles étroites (Sheep Laurel) along la rivière Doncaster near St-Adèle.  It is a very nice place for hiking; visit their site: Parc de la rivière Doncaster

Mauve musquée

Kalmia à feuilles étroites