Blossomville

[Greg Beetham]

Can anyone guess what blossom this one is?
Greg
ps. Re the weird flowers, the bunch came at work for one of the girls and we put it in an empty tin, so I hurriedly took a shot..no time, no room, etc. that's why the photo isn't really up to snuff, but I don't have much else on natives handy.....just thought they might be of some interest.

[aster]

Hi Greg,

That is the 'passion flower'. It's a climber and the flower can be in different colours...It definitely is an artwork of nature!
The link in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Yes! correctamundo, the flower of the passion fruit it is. (I saw the vine outside was still in blossom when I was doing a bit of watering, and thought I'd take a photo of it).
My word Yildiz those are extraordinary passion fruit blossoms you have there, I didn't know there was that much variety in them, thanks for that.
Greg

[aster]

Green quinces of course!

Hi,

Just wished to share the final phase of those pink flowers as young quinces on their way to ripening.

[aster]

Hi,

Nowadays, it's Trailing Ice plant's turn to blossom and turn its face to the Sun...

Yildiz

[aster]

Hi,

The 'wild minis' that grow on their own devices in the corners of the garden. This time it was the Tamron 90mm F/2.8 macro doing its part.


Yildiz

[David Kilpatrick]

I don't have many flowers yet - plenty of laburnum, big wisteria on the house front, and loads of self-seeded yellow poppies:



New Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 HSM II lens for Sony, A900, with 2X Teleplus DG-7 used at full aperture for soft effect, manual focus, ISO 320 (because this is a very good setting on the A900, so is 160 when the light is better). Minimum focus.

We mainly have herbs and stuff growing in the old flowerbeds, alongside roses (not yet) and a range of very seasonal hidden things like autumn crocus. Here's some golden oregano, this and the green oregano (thyme) have almost taken over the whole garden - they grow everywhere and when you walk on the gravel, it smells of herbs, and when I cut the grass it smells of them too. I like that, so I let them grow:



This one is at 105mm and f/10 lens on its own.

These are garden spearmint and apple mint:



I generally like having plants which look good and are also edible. We lost a whole 'hedge' of Jerusalem artichoke and another hedge of fennel - both many years old, returning every year - as well as big rhubarb patch, horseradish plants and many other useful things when our vegetable garden was sold for building. I tried to move some of the plants but it didn't always work.

David

[Dr. Harout]

Does this fit?

[aster]

Does this fit?

Hi,

There are no rules to 'fit in' Dr. Harout. Nice close-up! But I've got to say, our dandelions haven't gotten to that phase over here, they are still blooming.


David;

Really lively greens your herbs are growing into. Very appetizing looking with that texture layout and a neat incentive to cook something delicious with their aid.

Yildiz

[Birma]

Very tastey herbs DK, and Doc, I love that close up of the dandelion - great shot.

[Greg Beetham]

Some good/interesting photo's there from Yildiz, David, and the Doc,
I don't think I've ever seen a quince before..good one Yildiz, so that's what those pretty red flowers turn into, mayhap there could be some jam on the cards at some point? it seems that's what is done with quince, according to the Wiki anyway.
David has lovely healthy herbs running rampant...hmmm, here we have to mollycoddle them a bit...sandy soil in this area. (ancient sand dune area naturally revegetated)
Not a lot happening here with blossoms at the moment, except the white dove orchid put on a bit of a show today, nice perfume, but they only last a couple of days, these were more difficult to photograph than I expected, dull overcast day and low contrast lighting, but it's a look at least anyway.
Greg

[aster]

Hello Greg,

That orchid indeed has white blossoms that resemble tiny white doves in flight. Lovely...

You're correct that quinces are mostly processed to make jam or a kind of sweet dessert. It's very healthy and has a sour and sweet taste at the same time which is delightful when cooked as a dessert or jam. Autumn is the season when everyone buys them to make fresh, home-made jam.

Keep sending in your blossoms eveyone!

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Yildiz, that white dove isn't very spectacular in the traditional orchid sense but it produces lots of perfume, (sort of lavender, but slightly different flavour to that other plant that I've now forgotten the name of at the moment) which is quite unusual for an orchid, orchids don't usually smell much at all in my experience.
Speaking for myself, I've only got some old file photos of flowers/blossoms, of this and that left at the moment, like the mango tree when it was in bloom or the lychee tree, so I can compare one years blossom too another...everyone would probably pass out from sheer boredom if I posted those, also some blooms from the Botanical Garden but I think most of those were exotic's (foreign), and I would not have a clue what they were.
Greg

[jbtaylor]

The wife's flowers have opened up. Here are just a few. They wre taken with the 135mm 1.8 and the Minolta 100mm 2.8 macro.
Enjoy.

[aster]

That's one remarkable blossom Jbtaylor!

There's a wild appearance about it, yet still very sweet with such pink hues. The macro close-ups make filaments look like fire flames.

Congratulations to your wife for tending them and to you for the photos.


Yildiz