This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

December 31, 2013
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

Verbena bonariensis makes a gajillion knots of tiny purple blossoms all summer long, and then it reseeds itself lavishly as a gift to the new year.

It's one of my favorite flowers. The juncos love it also, but more, it seems, for its seeds in winter than for the blooms of summer.

—Diane Porter

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