No 4-leafs here...

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!!!

Have some clover growing around the garden but no 4-leaf ones to be found. I messed with the tint on this to tone down the bright green. A little something about the shamrock......

The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common, three-leaved clover. According to tradition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. According to legend, each leaf represents something: the first is for faith, the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.
Clovers can have more than four leaves: the most ever recorded is 56, discovered by Shigeo Obara of Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan on 10 May 2009.
It has been estimated that there are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every four-leaf clover

I want to say a BIG thank you for the nice compliments on my lovely yellow flower yesterday!! After much much researching, I found out it is Kerria Japonica Pleniflora. Here's a little bit about it.....

Japanese kerria (also known as Japanese rose) is a tough-but-graceful, spring-flowering, deciduous shrub that is native to certain mountainous areas of China and Japan. It typically grows to 3-6' tall and to 6-8' wide on slender, arching, yellowish-green stems that remain an attractive green in winter. Single, five-petaled, rose-like, yellow flowers (to 1 1/2" diameter) bloom somewhat profusely in spring. Double-toothed, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, bright green leaves (to 4" long) turn yellow in fall. 'Pleniflora' is a very popular double-flowered cultivar that features rounded, pom-pom-like, yellow flowers (to 2" diameter). It typically grows taller (to 8-10') and more upright than the species. Specific epithet means full flowered. Synonymous with K. japonica 'Flore Pleno'. The genus name honors William Kerr who collected this plant for the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in the late 1700s to early 1800s. Plants in the genus Kerria are sometimes also commonly called Easter rose because the flowers typically bloom around Easter time.

And, now we ALL know what my pretty yellow flowered shrub is!! :)

Happy Saturday
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