i repeated a flower today

Earlier this year, I embarked on a butterfly pea piece and it worked out well for basically wasting a bunch of thread. I wasn't completely happy with the frontal view, so I thought I would try to repeat it on a new pair of shorts I bought recently. I have learned something about needlepainting, evidenced in the new frontal flower, and nothing about looking at what I said last time, in which I said the flower stem for the side-view flower should be shorter, and it is.... not. (Pictures to come!) But! In my defense, the stem part is smaller, ratio-wise, so I think it works out okay.

I'm otherwise pretty happy with the progress I made over the months, and I might keep making butterfly pea studies in embroidery, just because I can. It's such an underrated flower, really! I found this datasheet with all the different names in other languages, which is neat. I've always associated it with either tea or food colouring, and also ornamental, so I didn't know it is apparently good for improving grassland, too.

It's also classified as an invasive species in some places since it's really hardy and drought-tolerant and grows in all kinds of conditions, and outcompetes many plants nearby, which I totally believe, because I have seen butterfly pea vines just take over a whole goddamn bush and become its own bush. Easy to clear! But gosh so easy to grow. It really volunteers itself in all sorts of random places. And it's been naturalized all sorts of places. Kind of like, you know, immigrants.