The winter garden at Dunham Massey currently has a fine array of blooms. A favourite is the witch hazel, which is not native to England.
Telephoto closeups give interesting effects. Not much is actually in focus.
The ‘witch’ refers to the pliability of the twigs, not to a woman of magic, cats and broomsticks!
The rambling roses on the arch in our garden are now in their glorious second blooming of the summer. The individual flowers show a beautiful but subtle range of colours from pink/apricot/yellow through to pink tinged white and finally faded white – all in view at the same time.
This excellent variety came originally from David Austin Roses.
Photographs by Panasonic FZ1000, reduced to width 2500px.
As we enjoyed an evening drink in the garden, the declining evening sun was at just the right angle to back-light these crocosmia flowers and buds. Quick, grab the camera…
This evening primrose seems to like our garden, having transplanted itself several times to give miltiple sources of beautiful yellow flowers that seem to glow at evening time. The flowers soon die, but more appear continuously for months on end through the summer.
Blue flowers en masse are popular in spring on both sides of the pond – bluebells in England, blue bonnets in Texas – and in many English gardens there is lots of blue muscari, or the similar blue lyriope in Texas.
Featured image: blue bonnet meadow, Houston.
The winter garden at the National Trust’s Dunham Massey gives a wonderful splash of colour, lots and lots of snowdrops of various sorts, early daffodils and irises, heralds of spring. And the 500 year old oak, with one living branch, has such an intricate lived trunk.
It’s been an unseasonably mild autumn so far in England. These rambling roses were among several plants still in flower when we had significant snowfall the other day.
The recent spell of dry sunny weather has seen ever increasing signs of the coming of new life in the spring. Many crocuses and daffodils are already past their best. As usual, the willow is the first tree to show signs of life, while the branches of others are still bare.
This year, more than most, we psychologically need the boost of burgeoning life that comes with spring.
There is no time like Spring,
From ‘Spring’, Christina Rossetti
When life’s alive in everything,
I know you have to be quick photographing birds and butterflies, but flowers? These gladioli seem to have come out late this year, but what superb delicate colours, a magnificent garden specimen!
And the next day it rained stair rods, battering down the stems and knocking the life out of the petals. So much growing effort for just a day or two’s beautiful flowering!
So many flowers appearing in the garden. Here’s a selection.
One of the joys of spending a lot of time at home is to see them as they develop, day by day.
Featured image is a large-flowered clematis.
Spring. What a great time to be spending a lot of time at home, when we are lucky enough to have a garden. The daily progression of some of the plants is quite remarkable. Here, individual allium flowers are just starting to come out, 6 petals and 6 stamens each; there was just a single one a couple of days ago. Just look how many individual flowers there are, burgeoning out. Soon it will be a huge ball of flower.
Nearly two weeks have gone by. My snowdrops in the rain are now fully out, and a crocus has grown rapidly, to be now in the equivalent shot. The tips of more are just showing.
Yes it’s raining again. Photo shot against background of pond surface, as per previous post.
The graveyard at St John’s Church has wonderful displays of both flowers.
A cold, miserable January afternoon, raindrops falling on the pond – not very promising for photographs. Then I spotted these snowdrops in our planter, with the pond surface in the background.
Not bad for a photograph taken through the window glass with my easily-to-hand point-and-shoot Panasonic TZ80.
There’s a flower that shall be mine,
‘Tis the little Celandine.William Wordsworth
The lesser celandine is now in flower in our garden, along with the dandelions, but well before the buttercups come out. What a beautiful flower!
In the UK these flowers are a traditional harbinger of spring, typically the first flowers to appear in woodland. According to Wikipedia, the leaves of this attractive plant are poisonous if ingested raw, and it is regarded as an invasive species in parts of the USA and Canada, as it can succeed to the detriment of native wildflowers.
Also known as Ficaria Verna, pilewort (haemorrhoid remedy), fig buttercup.
I can't believe it! 