Flower
White and ample flower
Robert Nyman
Like, flowers
A poppy is about to bloom.
Poinsettia - Christmas flower core with the actu al small / tiny blossoms. Euphorbia pulcherrima - Christmas flower turn red only in geographical zones with night darkness and day being approximately half. In geographical zones with longer daylight hours such as central Europe or similar, the red leaves around the actual flower remain green. To turn cultivated Poinsettia red while living in long daylight areas, cover the entire planet from 6PM to 6AM with a card box or similar to create an artificial long dark night.
In tropical zones such as the Philippine islands of course our days and nights are all year long approximately half. Thus we enjoy the Christmas flower all year with red leaves around the actual blossoms.
The previous photo shows the full "blossom" of a Poinsettia.
In album Beautiful tropical flowers - Tropical orchids
Hmm, I think a little flowerbed reshuffle is on the cards when I get home or possibly even flowerbed creation. I might have been suffering from the gardeners' affliction of my eyes being bigger than my garden. The car looked like a mobile greenhouse on the way back down the M6 but I bet we weren't the only car on the motorway adorned with foliage. Clematis x aromatica and C. flammula mysteriously found their way into my jute shopping bag, along with a really pretty Nepeta govaniana that I'll have to sneak into the back of a border. I find that yellow flowers divide gardeners in the same way as the variegated/non variegated debate but I can't resist yellow. I don't mind if it's a perfect sunshine yellow, wholesome and cheery or an acid greeny yellow, I'm quite happy with anything in between. The N. govaniana has delicate pale, lemony yellow flowers and is perfection in plant form. Lobelia tupa is a plant that I have been hankering after for a long time and now I am the proud owner of one. Carol Klein warned me about its hallucinogenic properties when she spied it my bag. Everyday's a school day at these shows... A tiny little blackcurrant sage completed my purchases, Salvia microphylla var. microphylla I couldn't resist its tiny little magenta pink flowers and scented foliage, I know that it'll thrive in my garden and it was a bargain, that's my excuse!
One item I would have loved to have brought home with me was this chap. My soon-to-be-husband and I have a little Russian tortoise called Claude so I am very fond of these slightly grumpy shelled creatures. Even though Claude has an uncanny habit of homing in and munching on any plant that I have struggled to grow or is very rare or special, I don't know how he does it! On second thoughts perhaps a stone version is a brilliant idea... Info from:
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