Monday, August 31, 2009

Tender New Growth

This is part 1 of 4 of The Turn of a Season photoessay.

Mature burnt-marked leaves and browned dead-looking limbs coexist with tender new growth.

-1-
Angel's Wing begonia green mature leaves
with burnt marks on their tips
coexist with reddish tender new leaves.

Jagged and red-edged
young Angel's Wing foliage.


Another variety of Angel's Wing begonia
with mature burnt foliage
coexisting with tender green new leaf.

A leafless stem of Angel's Wing begonia
is showing growing tips
at the top and along the stem.
They will be new fresh foliages.


-2-
Lime green, new growth frond of fern
above the old darker fronds.


-3-
Schefflera,
a tropical foliage plant,
is having new sets of leaf.


-4-
Fresh green tips coming out of both
green and brown dry-looking stems
of a variegated hydrangea.

New fresh foliage at the base
of variegated hydrangea.


-5-
A small baby Elephant's Ear Illustris
sprouting and yet to show
its dark color.

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