Flower – Page 12 – Juridicious

Waiting for the Sun!

Like the Doors song “Waiting for the Sun“, these solitary field daisies wait for the sun that is increasingly rare as autumn approaches.

Technical

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30
Processed using Adobe Lightroom 4.1

Yellow on black

A yellow daisy shot from underneath the flower against sunlight. Click on the picture for a larger view.

Technical Details

Nikon D80
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens
f/4.5
1/3200

Nothing probably gives a better contrast and highlights a picture, like something yellow on black on monochrome background. To test this hypothesis, I put forward this picture of a yellow flower against a desaturated background.

Really interested in your thoughts!

Technical Details:

Nikon D80 
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro lens
1/300 f/4.5
Processed with Adobe Lightroom 4.1

A tulip by any other name….

could almost be called a rose. This tulip at first glance looks so much like a rosebud.

A tulip. Keukenhof Gardens, Lisse, Holland

British Wildflowers – Scarlet Pimpernel

Scarlet pimpernel – a small flower with a big and famous name. A low sprawling plant with bright red flowers about 10mm across. All parts of the plant are poisonous and contain glucopyranoside cucurbitacins (Arvenins I to IV). Consumption can cause stomach upsets, trembling and kidney damage. (Source: Wildflowerfinder.org.uk).

P1010418 — Scarlet pimpernel (*Anagallis arvensis*): picture taken with a Panasonic TZ30 Camera

P1010419 — Scarlet pimpernel: Picture taken with a Panasonic TZ30 camera

For more information, please see: http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/P/Pimpernel(Scarlet)/Pimpernel(Scarlet).htm

British Wildflowers – Great Mullein

Great mullein (Verbascum thapsus) is a robust, upright plant that is covered with thick white woolly hairs. It is commonly found in grassland, and verges. The flowers are produced on an upright stalk and are usually bright yellow in colour.

Great mullein (Verbascum thapsus) – a member of the figwort family of plants.

Tree Lilies

Tree Lilies are a hybrid lilies of oriental and European lilies, and grow up to 8 feet in height with large fragrant blooms. I bought a few tree lilies earlier this year and they’ve grown to about 5 feet tall. Here’s what the flowers look like:

Swaminathan_Cambridge_0117 — Majestic yellow blooms about 5 inches across with heavenly fragrance.

Swaminathan_Cambridge_0063 — Dark pink/salmon shaded tree lilies. Also large long lasting blooms on tall (year 1 – 5 feet tall) plants.

Tree lilies can be bought from most good garden centres an nurseries. I purchased mine mail order from Thompson & Morgan. Don’t buy bulbs in autumn, or if you do, desist from planting in the ground till spring next year. I lost a whole collection of these over the winter here in Cambridge.

British Wildflowers – Birds-Foot Trefoil

A common sight in British grasslands and meadows. In high season, whole fields seem coated in yellow. These plants, also called Lotus corniculatus, belong to the same family as the pea.

Macro-view of Common Bird’s-foot trefoil flowers.

British Wild Flowers – Thistles

Following on from my earlier post on wildflowers in the United Kingdom, here are the thistles.

Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) – a common variety of thistle in the UK, being visited by a bumblebee

Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa) – invaluable to bees and butterflies. South and East England

Creeping thistle seeds – silky feathers that carry the seeds long distances in the wind.

Click on any of the pictures above to see a full-size image. I hope you like the post and the pictures. I welcome your comments.

Wildflower Britain

Summer time.. The meadows and hedgerows are full of wildflowers that one rarely sees in a typical english garden. Here are a few (I don’t know all their names unfortunately).

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