Flower names in Chinese! Gotta review!

大家好！

Time to brush up on my Mandarin. I learned a handful of Chinese names for common garden flowers and here's just a few of them in this easy tutorial:



I actually knew more fruit than flowers because they probably didn't want you to go hungry while in China. LOL.



And the veggies...I didn't care as much so I just grabbed them and asked, "多少钱?", hand them 100 yuan and hope I get the right change back. Hhahah, ok it wasn't that bad. I should practice these, but there were other veggies that I liked, but they didn't mention here:




再见，

陆涛

Showing a little Husky Pride

So, I work out at the UW's Intramural Activities Building (often dubbed as the "IMA") and each fall, I look forward to the new crop of young college hotties and the abundant fruit and fabulous color effect on a large scale planting of beautyberry!



Whoever planned and designed this planting scheme is quite clever as very few plants can ever match a school's colors so effectively (in this case, purple and gold)!!



This is Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'
. Readily available and popular at nurseries at this time of year because of plantings such as this at the UW. They are easily grow in most well-drained soils in full sun or part shade and are perfectly hardy and suited for our area.

"Yay for Vegetables!"

I love news like this!

Way to go Mrs. President!