for gardeners interested in art. Sculpture to enhance the garden
These photos are from Magdalen College Oxford University.
“At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.”
– Oscar Wilde (a famous alumni of Magdalen)
For the answers hover over the photograph. The variety shouldn’t affect how the seed looks but there may be differences in the seedhead itself.
Seeds to use For a Children’s Quiz
Waterperry is a small village eight miles east of Oxford. It lies on the River Thame (not to be confused with River Thames), though the Thame does end up feeding into the Thames. The extensive gardens and river-side setting offer a combination of formal gardens, flowing herbaceous borders and wildlife meadows by the river.
Helenium
Mixed border …
I have just bought a non-stop flowering begonia cunningly entitled ‘Begonia Orange’. Here are some more orange blooms until the begonia gets going.
We host a lot of our pictures on Flikr but regrettably I do not include much in the way of description, comment or location.
One feature of Flikr that I am using more progressively is the Groups feature. Here you can link your pictures to the club or group by theme. Some gardener related themes are based on flower colour or family grouping like Iridacea. I have posted several Orange Flower Photos to the club link.
This Gerbera has been distorted by nature and other flowers from the same plant are unlikely to be the same. This feature is called fascination and can happen in many species of plants.
This poppy hints at the tints of orange from just off yellow through to the near full blooded red with orange overtones in the begonia in the featured image on the blog.
See our colour wheel article
A special Daiseye.
Are these Porcupine flowers?
How do you stem the flow of all these silly pictures?
Smile you are on Candid Camera
Lovely climbing rose on the front of this house
The Front garden is a great part of English life. Unfortunately there is increasingly a trend to replace the front garden with concrete so people can park a car. But, what better way to start the day than walking through a bit of garden at the front of your house.
If you want to give joy to passers by, go for a real impact and fill it with lots of colour. These dahlias give an excellent summer long flowering display – you will just need to spend time watering. Every bit of space has been maximised with these hanging baskets
A bit of gravel and reserved planting gives a very relaxed feel. It helps sooth the nerves, especially because the work to maintain is much reduced.
Good hanging baskets with a bold statement can be achieved by using one type of plant in one colour.
Think about the volume of colour from your chosen flowers over the life of the hanging basket. Keep it simple and you will only need one watering and feeding regime.
The hanging baskets below generally fit into the single colour category with the odd liberty.
I like the powder blue Lobelia. It is far more stunning than the more traditional purple in this large hanging basket.
Petunias in purple, or would you call it mauve, are great for hanging baskets as they produce lots of flowers and self-deadhead.
I have not grown Bacopa but like the clean white colour scheme on this hanging basket.
Orange is an ususual clour for a hanging basket but there are now some brilliant begonias like these.
Begonia x tuberhybrida ‘Illumination Apricot Shades’ F1 Hybrid is fantastic but would produce a mix of yellow & orange.
Now we get to a cheat with a trailing Lysimachia to under pin the base of the hanging basket which contains red begonias.
Begonia from Thompson & Morgan
Is it fair to call this a single colour. Certainly this veined petunia in pink to purple makes a bold splash of colour.
Petunia Million Bells or Calibrachoa are very floriferous plants to try in hanging baskets.
Petunia seeds at Thompson & Morgan
This would be my hanging basket display of choice. Hydrangeas drink large volumes of water and would not normally feature in baskets but this USA garden at Longwood makes do.
Colour Photo Credits
Hanging Basket 2009 by amandabhslater CC BY-SA 2.0
Hanging Basket by sirwiseowl CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Beautiful hanging baskets by wallygrom, CC BY-SA 2.0
petunias by NapaneeGal CC BY-NC 2.0
Hanging hydrangea hallway – Longwood Gardens, 2 May 2011 by mmwm CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Cheerful pelargoniums by tsheko CC BY-NC 2.0
Cheerful pelargoniums
It is still not too late to get snow says the eternal pessimistic gardener
This daffodil still manages to poke its flower above the snow cover.
Daffodils are a very hardy flower. If they are planted at the correct depths and split every 3-4 years they can give years of excellent, maintenance free, displays. But heavy wet snow can bend or break the flower stems.
This Rip Van Winkle is a special daffodil with the elongated petals but is still one of my winter favourites.
See more of our daffodil photos on Gardeners Tips
Evening Primrose Oenothera Biennis is a wonderfully scented flower for summer evenings.
Image of Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri/Hooker’s Evening-primrose
Pink Evening Primrose Oenothera speciosa ‘Siskiyou’ photo of a low growing perennial.
Pollination is in the evening air!
Oenothera Glazioviana is generally a biennial herb producing an erect stem approaching 3-5 feet in height.
Oenothera cespitosa var. marginata (Tufted Evening Primrose) also called Onethera caespitosa
Oenothera macrocarpa – Silver Blade Evening Primrose
Credits
Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri/Hooker’s Evening-primrose by davidhofmann08, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
bluebonnets, pink evening primrose foreground by milpool79 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
evening primrose by marc e marc CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Evening Primrose by kh1234567890 CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Oenothera cespitosa var. marginata (Tufted Evening Primrose) by Tony Frates CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Oenothera macrocarpa – Silver Blade Evening Primrose by colorado art studio CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Scented Wild Flowers Evening Primrose Oenothera odorata
