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Category Archives: Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Water Lily and Leaves
Water Lily leaves and their flowers are a common feature of ponds and lakes in the UK. The leaves may be green, but sometimes they are purplish-red. The water may be brown, as in this image. But sometimes it is … Continue reading
Posted in Country Houses & Gardens, Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Tagged Photography, Water Lily Leaves
8 Comments
Hostas
A clump of Hostas is a remarkable sight, and I’ve seen two images on the Internet in recent weeks that inspired me to get out and take a picture of the Hostas in our own garden. When you take over … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Tagged Black and White Photography, Hosta, Photography
10 Comments
Hornbeam
This image is about a month late reaching the screen, overtaken by more pressing images. Hornbeam – Carpinus Betulus – is a beautiful deciduous tree but it is also commonly planted for hedging. The leaves are distinctive, similar in size … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Tagged Carpinus Betulus, Hornbeam leaves, Photography
19 Comments
Natural Patterns
Life has been a little frantic in the last few weeks as we prepare for a wedding – hence the sporadic posting. It’s some time since we visited the coast, and recent ‘outings’ have been mainly to visit gardens and … Continue reading
Clematis Montana
When you move house you inherit much more than a building, you also inherit a garden and all that is within it. We moved house in late November when Autumn was well advanced and most of the plants and shrubs … Continue reading
Campanula
Campanula (Bell Flower in plain English) is a large genus of garden plants. They are graceful, pretty plants but tend to be fragile. They grow to about eighteen inches in height but as the flowers come out they become a … Continue reading
Wisteria
It’s Wisteria time. It comes hot on the heels of Plum Blossom, Apple Blossom and Bluebells. All are subjected to the vagaries of the British Spring. The wind blasts the blossom off the trees so that it looks like it … Continue reading
Apple and Plum
Blossom is one of the delights of Spring, and one that is gone far too soon. Down the bottom of our garden we have Plum and Apple trees. The Plum comes into blossom first and, by previous years, this year … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Tagged Apple Blossom, Photography, Plum Blossom, Spring Time
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Lilac unfurls
One of the features of Spring that still holds me in thrall after all these years is how leaves unfurl and grow. We have a couple of Lilac trees in our garden – one white and one pink. And every … Continue reading
Ripe for Harvest
A few days before I went on holiday at the end of July I walked round the fields on the edge of our village to see how the Wheat and Barley were ripening. I took my Canon G10, not really … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Plants and Wild Flowers
Tagged Harvest, Photography, Topaz Clean Curly Smooth, Wheat
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