Time to join in once again with Dawn’s annual “Festival of Leaves” autumn challenge where she invites us to share our photos of the autumn (fall) season. Not much sign of autumn leaves yet in this part of the world, but these flowers are very much part of autumn. Festival of Leaves #1 | Naked…
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A Garden in Motion
Dappled sunlight filters through the trees casting ever moving shadows between the flickering leaves. Feathery grasses sway in the breeze, Whilst butterflies perform acrobatic dances in tandem. Before coming to rest on an attractive flower or leaf . And lest we forget – the bees. Doing what bees do best. Flitting from one flower to…
Three of the best
I haven’t joined in with this challenge for a while, but this week Sarah asks us to consider three photos that we judge to be successful. Of course how we judge our own images is very subjective and sometimes an image may be a favourite, but not necessarily one of our best. There are all…
festival of spring #10
A flower that is quite common around Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is the Gladiolus communis subsp. Byzantium better known as ‘Whistling Jack’ or the ‘Sword lily’. It is a relic of the Scilly bulb fields and is extensively naturalised where there is little frost. It flowers from May to July. You can buy bulbs for…
festival of spring #9
Introduced into gardens before the 1600s, this plant from the Mediterranean soon escaped and became naturalised in the wild. Despite its non-native status, it is a good source of nectar from May to October for bees, butterflies and moths like the Hummingbird Hawk-moth. This is Centranthus ruber var. coccineus. Often known as the red valerian,…
festival of spring #8
May in England means one thing above all else. Frothy white country lanes. Suddenly they erupt with the white umbelifers of cow parsley / Anthriscus sylvestris. The umbrella-like clusters of white flowers are a familiar sight along the lanes of Cornwall and one of the prettiest is where I live, on the way to Wheal…
festival of spring #7
Bluebells English, of course… I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12 weeks in celebration of this season.
festival of spring #5
The first of many of my tulips this year – these go back to being planted in 2016 and are Tulipa ‘Whittallii’ a bulbous perennial, to 30cm tall, bearing cup-shaped flowers in spring. Pointed, burnt orange to reddish petals are pale yellow on the outside and have a blackish-olive blotch at the base of each…
festival of spring #4
April so far has a been one day warm sunshine and showers, the next frigid winds and mizzle. But the spring flowers still continuing to dazzle us with their beauty. This week something else from my own garden, I am going to join in with Dawn’s Festival of Spring which will last for 10 -12…
festival of spring #3
Although these Muscari (Grape hyacinths) have appeared in my Six on Saturday a few times already, they are proving to be a true delight this year, flowering their little socks off for weeks on end. So before they fade away I thought I would give them one more chance to shine. (The header image is…
Cornwall in Colours 