I have featured this flower before, but couldn’t help photographing some recently in the Lost Gardens of Heligan. I love these flowers and how the petals droop as they age. With their swirling skirts I always think of them as ‘little dancers’.

Helenium ‘Riverton Beauty’: Tall, upright and robust with clear, butter yellow flowers and a central brown cone.

Helenium ‘Riverton Gem’: A tall and robust selection forming a large bush of upright stems with mid green leaves topped with a magnificent display of orange flowers with yellow tips in mid to late summer.

With Storm Lorenzo hitting our shores (my little Aussie grandson thinks it is hilarious that he has a storm named after him), these flowers will probably be finished by the end of the weekend. But hopefully the pictures will brighten up your Friday.

 

Flowers on Friday

/ Heyjude / 21 Comments

21 thoughts on “Flowers on Friday”

    • Thanks Jo, well remembered! Not sure we will be doing anything though, it is sunny but a heck of a wind, you wouldn’t want to be close to a cliff edge today!

  4. Batten down the hatches. Not so bad here so far, let’s hope that continues! Heleniums are a real favourite, especially the burnt orange ones.

  7. Such vibrant shades – I hope Storm Lorenzo didn’t do too much damage. Here people were worried but it passed as a pretty standard autumn storm thankfully with little damage.

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