Ornamental millet, backlit by the morning sun
Too many gardens, too many photos, too little time! I'm still trying to catch up with the 500+ photos I took during the Perennial Plant Association symposium two weeks ago in Baltimore; since then I've been to Buffalo and back for a family visit (150 more photos), and just this morning I was treated to a tour of some of the gardens of the United States National Arboretum by one of the gardeners, Bradley Evans. 250 new photos to sort through! How will I ever catch up? (Does anybody remember the days when you had a couple of rolls of film and had to make sure every one of those 48 or 72 frames really counted?) So for now, just a couple of photos from this morning, showing an ornamental millet that was catching the light just right. This plant has never really excited me, until I saw it with the morning light behind it, imparting it with an almost mammalian mystery. Below, the same plant photographed from the other side. It definitely loses something. If I ever have this plant in my garden, it will have to be in a spot where the sun is always behind it!
Ornamental millet
