Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Spring Fashion - A Flower Homage

Well it's Spring time now - officially - and I thought what better way to celebrate it than through a bit of a homage to our Spring flowers that have done their duty once again this year, and given all of us a lot of joy... and me with a lot of photography practice. I have to say that our garden's not so good, and we don't tend to grow anything too exotic (in fact out the front we largely plant native ground covers to combat the droughts we've been suffering over recent years). Still we try to have a bit of a splash of colour here and there.

Here's a set of photos of our Spring fashion show - taken over the last 3 or so weeks... so some of these were particularly early Spring plants. I'll put names to faces shortly - but in the meantime, have a go at identifying your favourite ones (some of them are pretty easy!)... and while you're at it, leave a comment as to your favourite flower (or just favourite photo).

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So go on, let me know which is your favourite (if any), and you never know what you might get as a thank you note.... 

And next post I'll most probably let introduce you to yet another facet of all things AdelaideBen.... but that will have to wait. Time to get back to work!

7 comments:

  1. My favorite photo is definitely number 3, although I also like number 16 a lot.

    I'm curious about number 4. Is that called a Columbine in Australia? I didn't know they grew in Adelaide - I would have thought the summers get too hot. The blue Columbine is the state flower of Colorado. Here's a link to a similar color to yours taken at the top of the Gondola in Vail a bit over a year ago.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/strumpet101/4851186967/

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  2. Thanks for popping by... I don't think that this is the flower (for some reason I've got songbird in my head for a non-botantical name). I'll check it out tomorrow... the flickr link does look quite similar though.

    As for the summers - we'll see soon enough. At the moment my worry is the snails... went for a walk tonight outside... let's just say that wasn't corn flakes crunching underfoot. Yuck! (and apologies to any Buddhists out there, or any deceased who may have returned as snails... it was an accident, I swear).

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  3. It's hard to choose, but I'd say 21, 12 or 8. The photos are all gorgeous. Sarahf

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  4. Ah - just checked, you're right on the money...the commercial name was songbird, but it's a Aquilegia hybrid, and yes - that's also known as Columbine!

    So yes - you can buy them here... we shall see, is the answer to whether they survive here.

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  5. Some great photos and images of spring in Australia. Hard to pick a favourite but will have to go for #18.

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  6. Thanks for comments Sarahf and J_A... and for your photo favourites. I'm looking forward to when I can get back in front of the computer (to reply better) and behind the camera (to take more photos). This has been one very busy year... and it's only getting busier.

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  7. wow. the photos are so amazing. i want to take photos like those.

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