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[nonelvis]

To alleviate today's grumpiness, I took some flower photos I've been meaning to shoot for at least a week now. Most of them aren't anything special -- just documentation so that I know what blooms when -- but I must say that I am very pleased with this macro of one of the paper daisies in the front planter. My only regret is that I wish I'd framed it just a tiny bit better so that none of the top petals were cut off. Still, it'll do.



(As always, more garden shots in my photostream, if you care to look.)

Comments

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Oooh, purrrrty.

I totally failed to get peony and poppy pix b/c it was raining nearly daily the minute both started blooming. Beat up the blossoms something fierce.

[nonelvis]

I love poppies! Maybe I should find a place to put some in next year ...

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Mine are very forgiving; came with the house. 10 years of sitting in an unamended, unmulched bed at the foot of the driveway, fighting with the pampas grass and the weeds, and they just multiply every year. My kind of vegetation!

The only problem with poppies is that you cannot use them in a mixed bouquet. They kill everything else; the sap oozes into the water. They don't even last that long by themselves. So I just don't bother cutting them to bring them in at all.