Some flowers are born for a close-up.
Tag: flower photography
Flower Friday – Compass Plant
A native perennial I’ve loved since the moment I heard about it is the Compass Plant – Silphium laciniatum. I think my attraction was originally to the common name and then its striking height. It grows to about eight feet high in my garden some years, and its large basal leaves are said to point […]
Flower Friday- Blue (mainly) Iris
For 49 weeks a year I think tall bearded Iris are a waste of garden space. Dandelions love to grow in impossibly tight spaces between their rhizomes. Leaves get tatty and mottled by the end of July, and are unremarkable the rest of the growing season. You’re supposed to divide the rhizomes every few years. […]
Flower Friday – Eucomis
The thing is, I can never predict when they’ll bloom!
Flower Friday – Gerbera
Gerbera daisies add welcome colour to a patio or balcony all summer and into the fall.
Six on Saturday – 29/08/2020 -Lablab, my favourite botanical name
It’s the last weekend in August and the garden is already starting to take on an autumnal appearance. Tree leaves have started to turn yellow and even red, thanks in part to how dry July and August have been but also in response to shortening days and cooler nights. Some perennials are looked quite bedraggled […]
One Single Flower
This pink single peony steals the show, for a few days…
