Becky from “A life of a 40 something” is posting a flower a day throughout September, in the square format. She’d love you to join her.
day 24
Crocosmia ‘Emily McKenzie’
Crocosmia grow like weeds in the hedgerows down here in Cornwall, but their leaves become very tatty. I have a couple of more elegant varieties in my garden including the red ‘Lucifer’ and another tall orange one (no name), and this one is very desirable. [Seen at Beth Chatto nursery]
Ooh, vivid! I like it 🙂 🙂 More fun planned today?
Teehee, nosy as ever, Jo! Did I say that….I’m just as guilty…..
If you don’t ask you don’t find out Sue xx
Absolutely! Good Sunday?
So-so 🙂 🙂 Bit of a disappointing jaunt to an Open garden. Should have stayed home and watched the tennis. 🙂 You?
Very quiet, but should be a busyish week….
Just done a 4 mile walk around a lake on Bodmin Moor followed by a 1 mile walk on the moor itself to find the Cheesewring – almost got there when it started to rain. Drowned and Rat come to mind…
Oh, bless! 😦 We went to a very disappointing garden event and now I’m locked into Laver Cup 🙂 🙂
Disappointing? In no flowers? I have seriously neglected gardens this year. Maybe I can squeeze in the Japanese Garden before the end of the month.
It was more of a garden centre with lots of very young plants, very poorly designed and higgledy piggledy. I didn’t even take my camera out! Not that I need any more garden photos 🙂 🙂
Oh, that is disappointing. I don’t need any more flower photos either but I suspect that won’t stop me from taking them! A change of images from this weekend though. Mist and fog and moorland and old stones plus some geology for Meg. When I get around to finishing the posts that is!
I went to like as read your first sentence but fortunately I got to the end before I did click!! oh dead oh dear, did you at least find the Cheesewring?!
Eventually the cloud lifted sufficiently to show me where it was, but then the rain started so I didn’t climb to the top. Another day!
what a beauty- shape and color!
This is a lovely colour combination, very striking.
Lovely splash of colour, Jude
Cheerful things aren’t they. Just the thing to take us into autumn, though mine have long finished flowering.
😊😊
Fiery and passionate Jude!
Who? Moi? How do you know? 😀
Such radiance!
Happily have this one peeping out at me in my garden any day – gorgeous
How vibrant! Isn’t it amazing what nature can produce? And your photo captures it beautifully.
Thank you Susan 🙂
I love the vibrant colours of this flower. Once I would never have chosen anything orange, but I’ve developed a love for it recently. I even bought yarn for a new crochet project and included two shades of orange. And I want to put more orange flowering plants in my garden this summer.
I like orange, perhaps not next to purple, but I’m reluctant to move it now. Yellow is a difficult colour I find, in the garden and to wear. Doesn’t suit me at all.
I like orange and purple together. I find yellow difficult to wear too but I like it in the garden.
I only have yellow irises in the garden and they flower early on when not much else is so they look fine. I don’t mind the really deep egg-yolk yellows, just the lemony ones can be a bit harsh.