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Erysimum, also known as the perennial wallflower
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Erysimum, also known as the perennial wallflower
Ah, I love the scent of a cottage garden, Jude!
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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!
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A wild flower area in a cottage garden would work well, surely?
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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.
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Jude, your macro photos are more beautiful every time. I love the colours in this photo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wondered why Erysimum is called a wallflower. I found this:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wallflower
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So pretty, Jude. Great macro. 🙂
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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.
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When I actually see these I don’t like the colour mix, but in your photo it’s gorgeous!
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Never seen these flowers before.
Lovely.
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They glow like little candles! Love your crystal clear Macros, Jude.
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Aw, thank you kindly Jo 🙂
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Gorgeous. I was going to make the perennial wallflower joke but I see I’ve been beaten to it!
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Steve is always quick off the mark when it comes to etymology 😀
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What a lovely dainty flower. Does it have a scent like the annuals?
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I’ve seen this flower many times, but had no idea of its name. I love the colours in your photo.
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