Today’s challenge.

Posted on January 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Elephant, Environment, Extinction, Flowers, Guns, Hunters, Life, Lion, My superpower?, Poem, Poetry, Rose, TigerLeave a comment

Day twenty three of the 64 million artists January challenge. I wrote this…

Day 23, I can’t find the actual challenge, but I think it is to write a poem to support nature and say what superpower you would have.
My super power would be to turn hunters guns into flowers so they can’t kill majestic animals like Lions and Rhino’s and Elephants.

If you shoot at Rhino,
Elephant, or Giraffe,
I will turn your gun into
A flower for a laugh.
You won’t be able to kill,
Despite your evil will.
And with rifle now a rose
A Tiger might bite your nose!
Leave the scarce alone,
Don’t bother to wail and moan,
Elephant want to roam,
Panthers need a home.
No more evil deeds,
Turning guns into seeds!

Amaryllis

Posted on January 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amaryllis, Beauty, Blogging, Bulb, Flowers, Life, Plant, Red petals, WateringLeave a comment

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My Amaryllis plants are coming into leaf again. They die back after flowering and being in leaf over the summer and autumn. I generally leave them to dry off for a couple of months, then start watering them again about now. The leaves emerge and then the flower spike from the large amaryllis bulb. They prefer to be tightly fitting in their pots. One of mine is about ten years old and has grown another bulb next to it. I love the large flowers, they are always brightly coloured. As you water the plants and the leaves and watch the flower spikes grow, you can almost see them expanding by the minute. If you got one at Christmas don’t throw it away when it dies back, keep it and water it next December or January, you should be lucky and get new flowers x

Daisy type flowers

Posted on January 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Daisies, Flowers, Gardening, Photo, Plants, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trentham, Trentham Gardens2 Comments

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One of my favourites. The centres of these are a multitude of flowers with petals round the edges (think of sunflower hearts). There are oxeye daisies and osteospermums, cone flowers, asters, all sorts of types and colours. Life in all its variations can be wonderful. This photo is of Rudbeckia I think, taken at Trentham Gardens in the autumn. What I like about daisies is the length of time throughout the year that they flower. They cheer me up.

Have you ever made daisy chains? We used to when we were kids. Pick a daisy and make a hole in the stalk with your fingernail parallel with the stalk, then thread another daisy through till the flower head is in contact with the stem. Then do again till you have a chain. (I’m not suggesting you do this, just how we did it, you shouldn’t pick wildflowers).

Flowers

Posted on January 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours. Poem, Flowers, Garden, Photo, Poetry, Very short poemLeave a comment

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Random photo of flowers.

Just something to brighten your days.

Shining with colour.

Greens and purples.

Orange and mauve.

Blocks of plants.

Textures and petals.

Summer come again.

Soon.

Christmas Cactii

Posted on December 20, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cactii, Christmas cactus, Flowers, Indoor plants, Kitchen window ledge, Life, PlantsLeave a comment

Watching the flowers bloom on my kitchen window ledge. One Christmas cactus has flowered abd faded. One is in full bloom and the third is just coming into flower. I also have one which has tiny buds on it. It’s interesting how they have flowered in progression. I don’t know if some have had more water than others. But they must be healthy. Easy to look after. I put a bit that broke off in a mug of water and it has now grown roots.

Bright poppies

Posted on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Gardens, Petals, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Poppies, SummerLeave a comment

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Bright poppies shine,

Glow with sun

Grow so red,

Buds stretch and burst.

Dehissance it might be called?

Or is that leaf fall?

Something like that,

There is a word…..

Turgid petals push out and open,

Colour shoots out

Shocks

Surprises

Cheers!

Hanging basket in November

Posted on November 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Begonias, Blogging, Cold, Colours, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Hanging baskets, November, PlantsLeave a comment

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My hanging baskets are still in flower on 4th November! My Christmas cactus is coming into flower on the window ledge, global warming certainly is having an effect on plant life.

The baskets were planted up at a nursery in May and we have had them ever since. They have done really well. The plants are begonias I think, but there are other flowers in there still including fushias. I’m not emptying them till the frosts get them. It’s so nice to look out the window at some colour at this time of year.

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