We’ve had some lovely flowers in the garden this year. I hope you enjoy some of the photos from our yard and garden.
These ornamental grasses are about a foot high. They make a nice pattern when focusing on just a few blades.
Hydrangeas form large balls of blossoms. Ours are white, but others can be pink or blue.
I liked the stem structure from under the blossom ball.
Japanese maples have such wonderful red leaves. When the sun shines through the leaves they glow.
Our daisies have exploded. Here I was able to selectively focus on one, leaving the rest to softly fill the background.
I didn’t know what these are, but I love the bright red blossoms. Thank you, Jane Shoup, for pointing me in the right direction. It looks like these are Lychnis Atrosanguinea or Rose Campion.
Thanks for taking a look at my photos. We will be getting back to the lake soon and I hope to share more photos from there.
Mark
Daisies are my favorite flower! Love your focus on them.
Hi Mark,
Always enjoy your photos. I believe the last flower is Lychnis Coronaria. It is known by some other names, too. Does it have a silvery gray stem and leaf? I think it is in the Dusty Miller family. I have hundreds of them in my flower bed in Lafayette. They self-seed very freely.
Maybe we will run into you on the lake. We saw an eagle perched near the South Bay today and a solitary loon in our bay when we were taking a boat ride. Haven’t seen any baby loons this year. Didn’t find the pair on the north bay either.