Pat Thompson

@pattho

Friends School plant saler, co-op fan, gardener, Transition Town member, recovering grammar curmudgeon. She/her.

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Pat Thompson@pattho· 28d

It’s mid-season for daylilies! Four from the past couple of days: Bela Lugosi, Frank Smith, a nice light yellow from the from triangle at the St Anthony Park library, and my favorite large melon-colored one. #FlowerReport

Purple daylily with a yellow-green throat.

Light orange daylily with a dark red-orange eye zone and green eye.

Cream-colored daylily with a light yellow-green eye.

Coral pink daylily with a large greenish yellow eye.

Pat Thompson@pattho· 28d

First day of free herbs at the St Anthony Park library! (Tuesday mornings by 10am.) new this year: scallions, shallots, tarragon. And check out the window boxes and gardens while you’re there.

Herb cart with basil, rosemary and more.

Herb cart with dill, Sage, anise hyssop, lavender and more.

Window box overflowing with green yellow and purple plants.

Pat Thompson@pattho· 29d

High summer begins. Wild bergamot, white yarrow, and cardinal flower. #FlowerReport

Long upright spikes of bright red flowers.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 12

Or Night Over Germany!

Four paintings joined together make up Night Over Germany.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 12

I just saw this 1940 Mexican painting in a museum. Its title, translated, was Woman and Lilies. I thought, whoa, I hope no one tried eating those lilies!

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 11

Here’s Tiny Tuff Stuff! In Minnesota with un-acidified soil.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 10

Green sweat bee on morning spiderwort. #FlowerReport

Three-petalled purple flowers with yellow stamens, lit by morning sunlight, green bee feeding on one flower.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 9

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) bridge brigade, every Thursday morning. 18+ people.

People waving, standing in a cage-like bridge over a highway. Banner reads Impeach Convict Remove. Smaller signs say 25th Amendment, Keep Hope Alive, No War No Camps, Peace, ICE Out Now, Major Watson Fan Club, No Kings. One person flies a Minnesota state flag. Another wears a frog suit.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 9

It’s a pattern! This could have been Judge orders Trump to pay Carroll $5.8M

Star Tribune headline: Judge order E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 9

Such passive voice. In other - shorter but clearer - words, Judge orders Trump to pay Carroll $5.8 million

Pioneer Press headline: Judge orders Carroll to be paid $5.8M in Trump case

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 8

Daylilies starting to bloom, plus the zinnias outside the entrance to Mia. #FlowerReport

Purple daylily with yellow-green throat and mid-ribs.

Light yellow spider daylily with long yellow stamens.

A field of double zinnias in bright colors.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 4

Lu’s Sandwiches at 4th in the Park (Langford Park, St Anthony Park St Paul) for the first time.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 4

For all the non-soccer people, here’s some great St. John’s wort. #FlowerReport

Six bright yellow flowers with down-flexed petals and upright yellow stamens at center like crowns.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 2

Nice annuals in Twin Cities sidewalk planters. #FlowerReport

Yellow Calibrachoa with red mottling like splashed paint, sometimes almost the whole petal is red.

Small lavender bacopa flowers with orange marigolds.

Large coleus leaves with an intricate color pattern from yellow-green to magenta to brown to yellow green scalloped edge.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jul 2

Pre-July 4 Thursday morning bridge brigade in Prospect Park (Minneapolis).

18 people standing inside a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a freeway. Long banner reads Land of the Free Home of the Brave. Smaller signs read No ICE No War No Kings, Keep Hope Alive, Peace, NOPE, No Kings, ICE Out Now. People wave small flags and wave their hands.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 30

Three summer native plants to cheer us on this downer day. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), and prairie baby’s breath (Euphorbia corollata) mixed with culinary dill. #FlowerReport

Panicles of many intensely orange flowers.

Upright stems each with several side shoots topped by spiky silver-green balls.

Small white flowers on airy stems mixed with panicles of yellow flowers turning to dill seeds.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 28

After attending the memorial vigil for Barbara Mork-Woodford at the intersection of Hamline Ave and Midway Parkway in Saint Paul, it's hard not to notice just how pedestrian-unfriendly that intersection at a major entrance to Como Park is. Contrast it with the rebuilt Como intersection:

The Midway Pkwy intersection has lanes that are each almost two cars wide, and crosswalks of two stripes perpendicular to the street. The Como intersection has lanes narrowed to the width of a one car and the crosswalks are much wider, painted as multiple stripes parallel to the street. On the Midway Pkwy map, a red X shows where Barb was hit and where the vigil was held (north crosswalk, northwest corner).

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 27

Friday flowers. Impatiens Harmony Radiance Lilac, Corydalis lutea, Hydrangea Tiny Tuff Stuff, eastern prickly pear. #FlowerReport

Mound of fine fringey green leaves and clusters of small yellow tubular flowers.

Light blue flowerets cluster in semi-circles around small closed buds over bright green leaves.

Light yellow rose-like flowers grow on a flat-padded cactus lying on a stone wall.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 25

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) Thursday morning bridge brigade over I-94. This week's theme was "pieces of blue."

People standing inside a cage-like pedestrian bridge over a highway. Long banner reads Piggy's Legacy: Epic Fails. Many of them hold large pieces of blue paper. One person is dressed in an inflatable frog suit.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 23

Four from the Pollinator Patch at Raymond and Robbins in St. Paul: black-eyed Susans, catmint Purrsian Blue, sand coreopsis, creeping thyme. #FlowerReport

Low plant with small light green leaves and upright stems holding many small lavender flowers.

Gold on gold daisies with ragged-edged petals.

Tiny green leaves spreading all over the ground with many very small pink flowers just slightly higher than the foliage.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 21

Flowers and foliage while out and about. Phlox EarliBeauty Daughter of Pearl, a container with coleus and Petchoa, red baneberry, and sedum Little Missy. #FlowerReport

Upright plants with narrow pointed green leaves and white flat-faced flowers pointing out from the stems. Pink backs.

Multicolored leaves in red, yellow, light green, dark purple, and magenta. Some pointed, some frilly. Magenta petunias.

Many green maple-like leaves and a few swaying clusters of bright red berries.

Miniature sprawl of light green succulent leaves edged in cream with some tiny dark pink flowers here and there.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 20

A friend with dozens of martagon lilies in her garden had an open garden day today. #FlowerReport

Dark burnt red down-facing recurved lilies dangling from an upright stem, protruding orange stamens.

Garden bed with many different colors of lilies swaying in the wind.

Multiple upright stems each with many light pink down-facing recurved lilies dangling, protruding orange stamens.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 17

Re: that video w the pickup truck that's 2 trucks tall... I saw this truck parked on a street in St Paul in May. It was not as gigantic as the one in the video, but !!! These are symbols of government not working: they should at least require a commercial drivers license, if not be banned outright.

Black GMC pickup truck on a lifted suspension, extra large tires, double set of tires in the back so the tires extend out extra far. Overall, it is more than a lane wide and its hood is at least twice as tall as the roof of the parked sedan ahead of it.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 16

I don’t always appreciate Torenia but I like this combination with Ageratum and white petunias. Echinacea angustifolia coming into bloom against Clematis recta, and a different Clematis recta showing flowers and buds.

Variety of flowers: fuzzy lavender buttons, big white petunias, white tubes with dark purple fluted ends.

Light pink many petaled daisy, narrow droopy petals, orange protruding cone at center. Other flowers on long stems have short pink petals sticking straight up like their hair is on fire. In background out of focus, a climbing plant covered in small white flowers.

Many green leaves and sprays of green oval buds, some white four-petaled flowers.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 12

Annual combinations outside Shish on Grand Ave in Saint Paul. That tone-on-tone mound of pink is what really caught my eyes first. #FlowerReport

Upright spikes of small purplish pink flowers with lighter pink petunias.

Light salmon double begonias with silver licorice, white bacopa, yellow-green coleus, and a gold to orange begonia on the side.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 12

From Minnesota Department of Safety's crash stat site, at this intersection from 2000-end of 2025 there have been just 2 northbound crashes related to the intersection with possible injuries (the "lowest" type of injury rating). roadsafetyinfocenter.mn.gov/map/informat...

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 11

Prospect Park (Minneapolis) pedestrian bridge, Thursday mornings 7:30-8:30 a.m.

People waving, standing inside a cage-like narrow bridge over a freeway. A long banner reads GOP sold us out again! A second banner says One Year Still Here.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 10

Two nice part-shade containers I saw. #FlowerReport

Large pot with pink begonias, line green foliage plant, silver begonia, Ivy, fuchsia and white impatiens.

Large pot with light yellow and hot salmon begonias, variegated Ivy, Gartenmeister fuchsia, and white star-shaped Browalia.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 10

Saw a notice in my hometown FB group from a person on the road I grew up on: three goats found in that person’s yard. They’ve been put in a shed to keep them from being hit by a car and to prevent them from eating all the plants. Very neighborly!

Three goats, two mostly black and one black and white, standing on a deck, looking at the camera-holder.

Pat Thompson@pattho· Jun 9

Gold and white: sand coreopsis, Clematis recta, California poppies, and a white Thunbergia (I’ve Meuse en one before). #FlowerReport