As I sit here, on yet another dismal, wet and grey weekend, chomping away at some toast and marmalade Mrs PR has kindly done for me, along with a nice cuppa, and sorting through the few photos I've managed to grab so far this year, I think I recalled a thread some time back of plants or flowers people have seen, but couldn't find anything in the searches.
So, without further ado, I thought why not set a thread up for , where all can share their photos, not just in the wild, but the garden, local municipal parks, anywhere, because without these plants, there wouldn't be nature.
It's not unusual to see flowers virtually all year through, not because of global warming, climate change or whatever scenario you prefer to use, but because some plants are hardy and prefer to be winter borne. But for many, the first flowers they really see properly, are snowdrops in February, followed by crocuses (late February- Mach) and then the delightful daffodils (March/April)., bluebells (April time), and much more.
So lets put some colour back into the grey world, spring is coming, so here's a few to set things going.
February; snowdrops
February: Sweet Violet
March: the first daffs in bloom
March: always a sign that spring is on the way, the primrose
March; crocuses (from a local municipal park)
March; mini daffs in our garden
and some proper daffs in the garden, starting to bloom
BTW, I've seen my second bee of the year, having a nosey around the daffs above, the first was late Feb, the second was earlier today, but on both occasions, the weather wasn't right to get the camera out...
Mike
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I thought I'd share the photos of my daughters Brides and Bridesmaids bouquets - they are British grown and mostly grown by the local (to the bride) florist - I was very impressed by the hard working young woman. Not my photos
Brides Bouquet
detail of Cafe au Lait Dahlia
Bridesmaids bouquet
The 'favours' for the guests were a packet of British Wildflower seeds :)
Cin J
Cin J, those are beautiful bouquets, I do some flower arranging so appreciate that it is not an easy thing to get right, a hand tied bouquet. Beautiful autumnal colours (my favourite) and some very delicate ones like the sweet peas, goodness knows how they kept looking good all day, once they were cut and the Delilah is a lovely soft peachy colour. I hope you had a lovely day.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
An autumn flowering plant, constant cheer nicely in flower and helping the bees get ready for winter, though I've yet to get a photo of a bee on there this year....
There's still plenty of fresh buds yet to flower....
More of the constant cheer, which is by now in full bloom, no more buds, all flowers, so it won't be long before that joins the other plants and settles down for the winter. These were taken a few days ago, but they're still nicely in flower as I type.
Lynn L said:It is nice to still have a little bit of colour left, a nice splash of lilac.
It is.
Sadly I'm not much of a gardener, the lavender and erysimum has held on well this year, but that too is almost to bed for the winter.
Th constant cheer is dying back ready for the winter.
A winter rose!
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
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