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.
They’re beautiful, Jude! Happy birthday 🙂 🙂
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!
Your photos have certainly brightened up my Friday! Thank you. 🙂
It’s a bit blowy up here!
They are lovely Jude. The close-up shot looks like a very funky hat.
Lovely flowers! I’m sure I don’t have any left in my garden after this week of terrible weather!
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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.
They’re little dancers to me too – a very cheerful highlight to the border. 🙂
Spinning madly today! That’s if they have any petals on at all 🙂
The brown beetle/bug on one of the flowers makes that particular photo more interesting. I like it!
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.
we always seem to get the worst of the winds here, maybe because we live on a high point and only 9 miles from Land’s End.
Life on the edge as you say
Indeed…
I read Jo’s comment – Happy Birthday for last Friday! My sister and Mum had their birthdays on Saturday and today. I hope Storm Lorenzo didn’t do too much damage.
Lots of Autumn babies 🙂
OK, so yours are spring babies!! Both lovely seasons of the year, except autumn is becoming too damp here.
Yes, it’s spring here but with summer temperatures and bush fires already. It’s a worry.
Those flowers are gorgeous. They all look like they are wearing dancing skirts. 🙂
I know! They are fabulous aren’t they!