Garden Photography: Beauty Is in the Details

Looking closely at floral beauty

Today ’s exposure are from Dave Barkley in South Riding , Virginia , who sent in these sexual portrayal of beautiful flower .

A yellow pansy laden with dew

Another close - up of a dew - oppressed flower , this one a doublerose of Sharon(Hibiscussyriacus , zona 5–8 ) . two-fold bloom get when some of the anthers get converted into extra petal . Sometimes these in - between , smaller spare petals are call “ petaloids . ” The supernumerary petals can often make an single flower last longer and amplify any scent the flower has .

Sometimes fade flush can be just as beautiful as fresh ones if you stop to look at them closely . Thesemorning glory(Ipomoeasp . , yearly ) flowers cave in in on themselves after their abbreviated morning flower time .

In the globe of rosiness , the wild metal money have only five petals . Fully double forms have many extra flower petal , filling the flower , while semi - two-fold salmagundi , like this shine icteric one , have only a few extra petals . They ’re all beautiful !

The color of rosiness often varies a lot . Yellows often fade to cream or ashen as a flower age , and the intensity of color often switch with temperature and the amount of sun they are exposed to . Zooming in and observe these change is one of the outstanding joys of gardening .

Beautiful flower are often also found in thevegetable garden , as here with a manly flower of a bitter gourd ( aka East Indian cucumber ) . This vegetable , pop in South and Southeast Asia , has a stiff , bitter flavor and , like many members of thecucumberfamily , quite beautiful flower .

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