Lily Empress is not at all shy: look at those layers of petals. The perfume is a garden-filling knockout of a fragrance. Like Anouska that I showed you the other day, this is a roselily, and it's my first year growing them. Here with the Barbie pink phlox and magenta lychis coronaria.

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Morning glory Grandpa Otts: this electric beauty surprises me every morning as its trumpets open at different places on the vine. I managed to keep the slugs off (garlic spray!) when they were babies, so now about a dozen plants are climbing through the August garden. Each flower opens for just one day. But what a day.

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Today for you I have the indescribable #lily Anouska, a fragrant double form that looks like a lotus before it opens fully to show its stamens. Until this year I've never grown one of these double doubles, which are known as roselilies, and I've been waiting for this day. It's a stunner and I'll be growing it again. Mainly I garden for fragrance, and this has a fresh, gorgeous floral scent that doesn't overwhelm.

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I’m wanting to learn flowers’ names with close up pictures of the flowers in question. Can the #florists out there post a flower of the day? Pretty please! #floweraday

The raspberry-red clematis on the left is Madame Julia Correvon, destroyed by the builders two years ago, or so I thought. It resprouted from below ground this spring. Here with a basket of petunias and the now-complete rose arch, with the twin ramblers Princesse Louise.

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Rosa Jude the Obscure's perfume is intense lemon and I love it. I won this years ago in a #garden magazine #poetry
competition.

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Damage doesn't erase beauty, if anything it makes it more unique.

#flowerADay #nature #photograhy #closeup

Standing format, click to view completely.

Damage doesn't erase beauty, if anything it makes it more unique.

#flowerADay #nature #photograhy #closeup

Standing format, click to view completely.

The wall fountain corner, with double pink tulip Columbus and forget-me-nots. In the #Netherlands I used to admire how people put pots and baskets of spring flowers onto outdoor tables, and I always wanted to be that organised. I only put this container together in January, but it's still performing and giving me joy.

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The pond corner. The barrel will hold #peas later, but now it's #tulips (starring the double orange Orca), plus purple honesty that I dug up from where it had self-seeded. Behind it, #hellebores obscure the tiny pond, which is tucked into the corner and supports a few #frogs and #newts. A neighbor offered me her Victorian fireplace surround so I put it here with a mirror tucked behind, a trick from garden designer Mirabel Osler.

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Ordinary can be beautiful.

#naturephotography #flowerADay

I love when #gardeners show a wide shot of their spaces, so here's our courtyard outside the kitchen window, taken yesterday. The fan trained peach grows in the bed at the right, under-planted with spring bulbs. Climbing #hydrangea and #clematis Polish Spirit will cover the trellis later. Beneath them are things that have finished flowering like #crocus and #hellebores, plus a carpet of lily of the valley that's about to burst open.

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This is a gorgeous Purple Prince tulip that I think is developing a breaking virus, causing the white and pink feathering, but I love it. Planted with a handful of hyacinths plus forget-me-nots under the old peach tree at the side of our tiny courtyard.

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Just a vase of flowers by my writing desk, starring a shaggy scented narcissus from my mother-in-law's garden called Feu de Joie.

#narcissus #flowers #myGarden #amwriting #writingCommunity @plants
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Deliciously perfumed evergreen shrub osmanthus delavayi is stunning every year at Eastertime.

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The beautiful but rain-laden double #hellebore Lily: a light shower makes her lay down her heavy heads.

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This #pulmonaria doesn't mind the bitterest cold, even with the snow that came this evening.

#floweraday #winterGarden #WinterGardening #lungwort #myGarden #gardening @plants

Madonna #Lily
I hope you all have a #WonderfulWednesday today.
I can sit and stare at #lilies forever, with their intricate frills, stamens, petals and the visitors they attract.
All of those colours (the pink, the orange, the reds) would clash horribly in a dress, but they just work in this beautiful design. Actually, I will have this in a dress, please.
The original post, part of my #FlowerADay project was here:
https://www.elliekennard.ca/madonna-lily/
#flower #vintageLens #Helios44 #helios #OrientalLily

Crocus Ard Schenk with #chionodoxa, aka glory of the snow. I love how fresh and hopeful this pairing is.

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Dwarf iris reticulata Harmony with red cornus, plus various white hellebores I've grown from seed. This patch is right outside the back door, so I'm trying to up the winter interest.

#floweraday #winterGarden #WinterGardening #iris #hellebores #myGarden #gardening @plants