FLORA

TULIPS AT FORDE ABBEY

ALLIUM HEADS

ASSORTED AQUILEGIA

TWO VARIETIES OF IRIS

A BUNCH OF FLOWERS FROM DORSET (2)

Here’s a second bunch of flowers from a Dorset garden in June. Those few who kindly sniffed the first bunch may have wondered why none was labelled. That’s because, for most of them (apart from the obvious ones) I have no idea of the names. Or did once, but have forgotten them. And for familiar ones, I feel putting “Pink Rose” isn’t much help if you really want to know if it’s a Rosaflora Grandiloquens “Dame Edna Everage” or not. If I name 2 or 3 but not the rest, it still looks a bit… wrong. So it’s just ‘flars’, as Eliza Doolittle might say.

A BUNCH OF FLOWERS FROM DORSET (1)

GARDEN FLOWERS IN 10 MINUTES OF SUNSHINE (LONDON)

HONEYSUCKLE

WEIGELA

OH YOU KNOW – IT’S A CARNATION… OF SORTS… ISN’T IT?

WHITE FOXGLOVE

CANTERBURY BELL

BLUE NONCOGNOSCO [Cornflower ‘Centaurea’ – thanks Amelia]

PINK FOXGLOVE

MINIATURE RED ROSE

(replete with whitefly – a job for the weekend)

PURPLE IRIS

THAT USEFUL PLANT THAT GROWS BETWEEN PAVING STONES [= Campanula – thanks again Amelia]

ARUM LILY

RAMBLING ROSE AFTER RAIN – DORSET

WHITE CHERRY BLOSSOM – LONDON

WHITE TULIP IN CLOSE-UP 

DAFFODIL IN FULL BLOOM, MARCH – LONDON 

WHITE CAMELIA, EARLY MARCH – LONDON 

RED CAMELIA, EARLY MARCH – FRANCE 

EVEN LATER FLOWERING ARUMS ON DECEMBER 5 – LONDON 

LATE-FLOWERING NOVEMBER ARUM LILY AFTER RAIN – LONDON

OLD MAN’S BEARD (CLEMATIS VITALBA) also called TRAVELLER’S JOY – DORSET

PUSSY WILLOW WITH FEBRUARY RAIN – WEST LONDON

WILD GARLIC FLOWERS – DOGBURY GATE, DORSET