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 two
Osteospermum
The centres of these delightful, long-lasting African daisies are often a delight with their unusual colours. Next time you pass some, stop and have a closer look.
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Anemone × hybrida ‘Whirlwind’ (Japanese Anemone)
Anemone are herbaceous perennials with fibrous, rhizomatous or tuberous rootstocks, palmately lobed leaves and saucer-shaped, usually 5-petalled flowers.
Camellia
Camellias are one of the most popular winter- and spring-flowering shrubs, providing a vivid splash of colour when little else is in bloom. Although they need acid soil, they are easy to grow in containers of ericaceous (acidic) potting compost. This is my first bloom of 2015.
H. niger is a semi-evergreen perennial to 30cm, with pedately lobed, leathery, dark green leaves and 1-3 pure white or pink-flushed white, bowl-shaped flowers up to 8cm in width. This is my first flower for 2015 and now has eleven beautiful flowers (3 x 3 and 2 x 1). A little late this year though as I usually see a flower open in February.
P. denticulata has distinctive large, spherical heads, composed of many neat, bell-shaped, tightly packed, golden-eyed florets, on top of 25cm-30cm (10in-12in) stems. Also known as the drumstick primula and available in a variety of particularly good colours: this is the lovely pure white variety.
The best companions include the spring snowflake, Leucojum aestivum, the wood anemone, Anemone nemerosa, the rose-pink dog’s tooth violet, Erythronium revolutum, pink-flowered candelabra primulas and the bleeding heart flower, Dicentra spectabilis.
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Bold, white, daisy-like flowers with drooping petals that reveal burnished, orange-brown centres appear of stiff stems from June to September.
Round pure white flowers with dark showy anthers. Very free-flowering plant.
Miss Jekyll Alba (white) is a flower that needs a closer look at. It is an old cottage garden plant and useful for scattering amongst bare patches in the flower bed.
See the blue version here.
Earth laughs in flowers 
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