lazyevaluationranch:22/07/2020 The Blue Haired Girlfriend spotted this inconspicuous little green an
lazyevaluationranch:22/07/2020 The Blue Haired Girlfriend spotted this inconspicuous little green and white flower spike growing on a rocky slope near the chicken run. Each flower is about five millimetres across. According to the internet, this is Piperia transversa, which smells like cloves - but only at night, to attract its moth pollinators.Well. We can tell when we’re being offered a Quest by the powers that be.So we went out again at midnight with flashlights. beneath the pale spill of the Milky Way. We crouched on the stones around the orchids, circled by tiny white moths. And actually they do smell like cloves, but also orange peel and ginger and vanilla, a bit. I thought they smelled of mulled wine, like a secret holiday for moth and mountain. -- source link