I don’t think these actually have a fragrance, unlike the annual wallflowers. I have one in my garden so I shall check it out (not flowering awfully well this year. Maybe it is past its best.) I like cottage gardens too, but haven’t decided on what this one will be yet. At the moment it is mostly full of wild flowers!
It is quite a small garden with Cornish rockery walls which seem to contain a lot of wild flowers. I’d like some more exotic planting such as Australian and New Zealand plants, but it is very windy up here so I need to choose carefully.
This is a pretty variety – ‘stars and stripes’ – which I have in a pot (not this photo, mine isn’t flowering well this year. Time to come out of the pot perhaps, or maybe it has come to the end of its life). I like how it has so many different shades on one plant with the apricot and pink-purple.
I’ve been reading Jane Austen, so wallflower has different connotations – although her heroines are never perennial wallflowers. I particularly like the background bokeh, if that’s not a tautology. (Can you have foreground bokeh?) Sorry. I ramble.
Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.
according to Wikipedia. So I guess it doesn’t actually have to be the background.
So gorgeous Jude. As I often say when visiting I have run out of adjectives for your amazing photography. All I know is it would not surprise me to see this one on a gallery wall.
Ah, I love the scent of a cottage garden, Jude!
I don’t think these actually have a fragrance, unlike the annual wallflowers. I have one in my garden so I shall check it out (not flowering awfully well this year. Maybe it is past its best.) I like cottage gardens too, but haven’t decided on what this one will be yet. At the moment it is mostly full of wild flowers!
A wild flower area in a cottage garden would work well, surely?
It is quite a small garden with Cornish rockery walls which seem to contain a lot of wild flowers. I’d like some more exotic planting such as Australian and New Zealand plants, but it is very windy up here so I need to choose carefully.
Jude, your macro photos are more beautiful every time. I love the colours in this photo.
This is a pretty variety – ‘stars and stripes’ – which I have in a pot (not this photo, mine isn’t flowering well this year. Time to come out of the pot perhaps, or maybe it has come to the end of its life). I like how it has so many different shades on one plant with the apricot and pink-purple.
I’ve been reading Jane Austen, so wallflower has different connotations – although her heroines are never perennial wallflowers. I particularly like the background bokeh, if that’s not a tautology. (Can you have foreground bokeh?) Sorry. I ramble.
Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.
according to Wikipedia. So I guess it doesn’t actually have to be the background.
I wondered why Erysimum is called a wallflower. I found this:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wallflower
So pretty, Jude. Great macro. 🙂
So gorgeous Jude. As I often say when visiting I have run out of adjectives for your amazing photography. All I know is it would not surprise me to see this one on a gallery wall.
When I actually see these I don’t like the colour mix, but in your photo it’s gorgeous!
Never seen these flowers before.
Lovely.
They glow like little candles! Love your crystal clear Macros, Jude.
Aw, thank you kindly Jo 🙂
Gorgeous. I was going to make the perennial wallflower joke but I see I’ve been beaten to it!
Steve is always quick off the mark when it comes to etymology 😀
What a lovely dainty flower. Does it have a scent like the annuals?
I’ve seen this flower many times, but had no idea of its name. I love the colours in your photo.