Bottlebrush blues…
It’s Spring.
Therefore there are flowers.
Every darned thing is in bloom.
Lavendar, wattle, and now the flamin’ bottlebrush…
The native bees are happy about this…
And the photographer in me is okay with it too…
But could someone PLEASE tell me the secret to be able to pass the joy onto my nose?
Despite a truckload of antihistimes, I have not been able to breathe through it for almost a week now…
And my sense of humour is almost completely dissolved in the sodden tissues lying around my house…
I’d say BAH HUMBUG, but instead I am just going to say…
Bloody Spring.
17 Comments
Teri
I feel your pain! When we lived in North Carolina – where they grow pine trees as a crop for the paper mills – in March and April the cars would be constantly YELLOW with the pine pollen.
And I would be on allergy drugs… BLEH!
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Cactus Jack Splash
Interesting flower, nothing like that where I live.
Have you tried taking allergy shots? That is what my husband has to do every you
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Bush Babe
No – haven’t take allergy shots for many years. This is the first year that the season has been good enough to cause me serious issues. What is known as a double-edge sword I believe!
🙂
BB
Kelly
What a beautiful, but interesting plant!
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A Novel Woman
Be happy that your reds came out so well. I find them almost impossible to get right!
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Pencil Writer
Yes, bottle brush bushes are beautiful in bloom. And pine trees here in Louisiana are like those in Teri’s comment. It inhibits life–as we usually know it–for breathing and causes misery for the month or two when the pines scatter copious amounts of their maleness all over the place. It’s so bad that rain doesn’t even wash it away! It simply float like flood of microscopic ducklings in waves everywhere!
My head swells; my thinking dulls and tissue companies get rich as a direct result. I pray your nose, sinuses and all other body functions return to a happier homostatious (I’m not sure that’s a word) situation.
I have extra Kleenex at my house. Should I send some over?
TLee
those reds did come out fabulous and the green and red together just make me think Christmas. would be a nice December calendar choice, just sayin’! 😉
as a georgia girl..allergies are just a part of life…thankfully i have not experienced it to an extreme. sometimes the allergies can make me quite miserable, though. ragweed is the killer one for me.
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Gem
Sorry about your schnoz! We are overjoyed to see the bottle brushes in bloom here. After fossicking all winter for browsie for the possums to feed on it is nice to have a bigger variety for them now.
Cheers Gabi
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naomi
i’ve heard those netty pots work, but i’ve never tried them.
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Chookyblue
I LOVE bottlebrush……..lots of things are flowering at the moment……..
Cheryl
Ah poor you – fancy not being able to enjoy the beautiful spring flowers – what a pain for a Bush Babe – maybe you were meant to be a city slicker? I recall seeing the wattles in flower as I cycled by. Everything coming out here and more rain so it will all take off now. Hope it doesn’t last for long for you.
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debby
No advice about breathing through your nose. I can’t either.
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Lydia
The advice regarding the nettie pots is good — I’m a believer.
South Dakota has LOTS of pollen, but it is all from ragweed, which causes lots of sneezing and itchy eyes, but no pretty flowers…. I think it is kind of the bottle brush to give you something pretty to look at and photograph as it tries to kill you off. :}
Hang in there!
Nancy in Iowa
Wow, the pollen talk takes me back to Atlanta – absolutely miserable there with Teri’s yellow pollen! Some years it would pile up in drifts against the curbs (kerbs to you, I guess!). I even tried Vicks under my nose. One of my daughter’s friends swears by the Netti Pots, but I moved to Iowa before I ever got around to trying one. Out here I don’t have that problem! Constant coughing stopped, too.
OK – on to the bottle brush – absolutely gorgeous!!!
Jayke
Gorgeous pictures! It seems every time the season shifts my SO breaks out the allergy medication. We’d even picked out an ideal little valley to build our house in, then summer came and he couldn’t stand the pollen drift! So now we are searching for a location with a little less hay cultivation and wind (a deadly combination!)
So far we haven’t found any real remedies for his allergic reactions so I’ve nothing to offer in the way of advice, except apparently sprouts have a natural antihistamine component to them. (My SO is decidedly not a fan of bean sprouts, so haven’t been able to test out this theory)
Feel better!
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Hippomanic Jen
Beautiful, beautiful pictures. Almost makes up for the inability to breathe and the scraggly-looking bushes they are for the rest of the year.
Marie-Louise
Hi there
This thread is not fresh but will have relevance again and again, I suppose.
You might be interested to read more about bottlebrushes causing severe hayfever on Ogren’s website ‘allergyfree-gardening.com’.
I’m going to give mine a radical prune to see if the symptoms abate. If they do, that bottlebrush outside my bedroom window’s coming out!