Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Lady's Mantle (Also Called Dewcup)

Here is a little sketch of a lady’s mantle plant in the perennial garden. The weather has been so warm and pleasant these past few days. We are still burning the woodstove at night, though.

Nature Journal Sketch: Lady's Mantle
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2 comments:

Frances said...

I have 3 versions of this plant in my garden as I love it so much, I had never seen it until I saw some in a friends garden and she gave me a clump which has become many many clumps as it does, I then saw other variations in a plant brochure and bought 2 of them one is smaller with blue/green leaves, the other is a tiny miniture ever green with red stems and just covers the ground,

I like both the drawings you have just posted but love the way you have included the water drops on this leaf, I always see them as little diamonds on the leaves,

4:42 AM
Conni said...

Thanks, Frances. Lady’s mantle is one of my favorite plants, too. It’s so hardy and, as you said, it spreads rapidly. I love how the dew collects and sparkles (like diamonds!) in the leaves.

I'll have to look for more varieties...

3:07 PM

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