Flock or Phlox?

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Close up, Flock or Phlox?, Flower, Gardening, Plants, Purple, Raspberries, water droplets4 Comments

Next to my raspberries a tallish purple flower stands. I think it’s a phlox? I’m not sure of the spelling. Homonyms, words that sound the same but are spelt /spelled differently.

The English language can trip you up. It has evolved, with different spelling rules like ‘i before e except after c’, which isn’t always correct.

Anyway, back to this plant. I was really pleased I managed to get a reasonably close image of the flowers. With water droplets visible on the petals. Any ideas on identification?

Poppy

Posted on July 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, commemorate, Flower, Gardening, Memory, Photo, Plant, Poppy, Red, WarLeave a comment

I just love them, their colour, brilliance, shape, papery petals. Colourful flowers that are imbued with sorrow because they were used to commemorate wars. They sprang up in the fields of flanders after the battles there. And yet to me they don’t signify fighting or fears, but memories of summers long gone, my favourite colour and how tiny seeds can create such magnificent flowers.

Passion flower

Posted on June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flower, Gardening, Green, Life, passionflower, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Purple, suffragette, White1 Comment

Fascinating flower

Full of passion

Enchanted star

Frilled and stellar

Surviving the coldull

Full faced like the sun

Blooming with mystery

Suffragette colours

Passionate

Strong.

First Aubretia

Posted on March 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aubretia, Flower, March, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Single, Spring, WarmthLeave a comment

A tiny flower

Promises so much.

Spring will bring

A cloud of purple

Buds and blooms

Life springs out

From cracks and crevices,

Waiting warm dew drops

To water them.

Ahh sweet smell

Of flora…

anemone blanda

Posted on March 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bad photo, Flower, Garden, Gardening, hopeful, Life, Poem, Poetry, SpringLeave a comment

Anemone Blanda,

or Windflower

spring flower

delicate,

gentle and true

purple white and blue

Old photo

old memories

garden surprise

brings smiles to my eyes.

Rose

Posted on February 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Feeding, Flora, Flower, Life, Pink, plant food, Rose3 Comments

Pink and beautiful.

It’s amazing how this has gone from a drooping bud to a full blown Rose. I use the plant food that came with the flowers.

I don’t know what the ingredients are, the stuff in the little plastic packet is clear and sticky, is it a sugar mix or something like a high energy energy drink?

Nowadays flowers seem to last a lot longer if you feed and look after them.

A perfect subject for art.

Rock flower

Posted on January 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Crystal, dried, Flower, Hue, Humour, Photo, Poem, Poetry, RockLeave a comment

Saw a flower

Dried out and blue.

Made of rock

Solid it grew.

Crystal’s like needles

Splayed out flat

Like a dandelion

A flower, splat!

Flower

Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bunch of flowers, Flower, Life, new years present, Photo, Photodirector, Pink, Time2 Comments

One of a bunch I was bought for new years day. Put through one filter in photodirector because I couldn’t get a good focus on it. The filter just tidied it up a bit, and made the centre of the flower more patterned. It’s more obvious round the edges, and the colours are brighter than the original.

Another one

Posted on December 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Flower, Green, Hyacinth, Knots, Layout app, Photo, Poem, Poetry, TreeLeave a comment

Another pattern

Another flower

Right in the middle

Of the picture

Another branch

From another tree

Tangling round the corner

Knots of branches

Tighten round

Leaves are glistening green

Another day

Another noon

Sunlight and snow abound.

Snail

Posted on November 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climbing, Flower, Garden, Hanging basket, Life, Plants, Red, Shell, Snail, SummerLeave a comment

I was reviewing my photos from the summer and saw this in my hanging basket flower. Not a bee but a snail! How did it get up there.. Must have crawled up the wall, then the fence and finally across the hanging basket to get to this flower. I hope it enjoyed its meal.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Flower