Of squash blossoms, aphids, life, death and purpose.
News from the Garden: Squash Blossoms, 8 May 2009.
The first two leaves that pricked up from the surface spent the last couple of weeks in the shade; they’ve since shriveled and died, their purpose fulfilled. So now we have these big, yellow flowers, unfurling their floppy petals. In a few weeks’ time, these too will shrivel and fall; every thing that lives, likewise dies.
Also, the flower in that photograph happens to have what I’m fairly certain are aphids on it. It seems fitting; you can’t have a story about agriculture without a fairly substantial subplot about pests.
Supplemental View: unfurling flower, 6 May 2008. Same plant, different flower.
