More treasures from Allenda’s hillside garden. Autumn mums remind me of homecoming and the brown and gold tones in these beauties remind me of the University of Wyoming, in particular!
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/23/flower-of-the-day-september-24-2016-dahlia/
The deer misunderstand and think these are hibiscuits, but this one has survived. Taken in my friend Allenda’s hillside stone garden in Huntsville, Alabama.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/20/flower-of-the-day-september-21-2016-dahlia/
The deer had eaten most of the flowers in my friend Allenda’s hillside gardens, but this gardenia and a few mums had escaped a place in their salad table. More flowerless photos will follow in a subsequent post.
April asked if gardenias are edible. Yes, in fact they are said to have a sweet taste when eaten raw. For a recipe for crystallized gardenia petals, go here:
http://simmerandboil.cookinglight.com/2014/10/08/edible-flowers-crystallized-gardenia-petals/
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/19/flower-of-the-day-september-20-2016-dahlia/
Ms. Bee, Ms. Bee, how much more lush could a sedum be?
(An interesting fact revealed to me by a bee scholar is that worker bees are females without ovaries, not males, so my former usage of Mr. Bee was incorrect. Now who would know that??? He who knows all: Forgottenman!!!)
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/18/flower-of-the-day-september-19-2016-dahlia/
To my eye, this bedraggled and pockmarked echinacea bloom has a beauty all its own.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/16/flower-of-the-day-september-17-2016-dahlia/
Not the same flower as a few days ago, but possibly the same wasp.
Don’t miss this flower on Cee’s blog: Beautiful and Weird!
Orange nasturtiums were the first flowers I ever planted myself, from seed, in the apartment I frequented for a year while I got my masters degree. They totally took over the soil by my back door stoop. I loved their cheery hardiness, but for some reason I’ve never planted them again. These are the first nasturtiums I’ve seen since that weren’t in a salad. Love the yellow. Wish I’d asked for some seed.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/14/flower-of-the-day-september-15-2016-mum/
My very first favorite flower. They grew tall beside our back stoop and every summer, we’d make Hollyhock dolls out of them. I found these outside the “Anne of Green Gables” house on Prince Edward Island. Click on first photo to enlarge.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/09/13/flower-of-the-day-september-14-2016-gladiolus/
