garden photography: covered in velvet

During September I want to see your favourite flowers.

(This month I’m looking at flower portraits – showcase a flower that you are particularly fond of or one that is unusual)

‘Velvet-Sage’ (salvia-leucantha) is an evergreen subshrub to 1.2m in height, with narrowly lance-shaped leaves white beneath, and small white flowers with conspicuous downy purple clayces. Also known as Mexican Bush Sage. It is definitely a plant you want to reach out and stroke!

Salvia-leucantha-‘Velvet-Sage’

If you would like to join in with Garden Photography then please take a look at my Garden Photography Page. No complicated rules🙂

• Create your own post and title it September: Flower Portrait
• Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
• Add the tag “GardenChallenge” so everyone can find the posts easily in the WP Reader
• Get your post in by the end of the month, as the new theme comes out on the first Sunday in October.
• Please visit the sites in the comments to see what others are posting.

In the Round Garden

A beautiful eighteenth century scalloped, dolphin fountain surrounded by Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) and Purple Coneflower (Echinacea ) can be found in the centre of the Round Garden at Bodnant Garden, North Wales.

Bodnant Gardens