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| Summer Sunshine means Coneflowers, Black-Eyed Susans |
Dressed in purple, gold and brown, the splashy color guards stand like a clustered infantry near an old outbuilding, proudly lifting their faces to the sun.
Without ruffles and flourishes, year after year faithfully they appear to resume their assigned June duty. Without oversight or inspection, they appear fully adorned in their perennial assigned uniforms.
Never faltering in reporting for duty, these sentinels of June are resilient survivalists, who herald the transition from Spring to Summer.
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| Purple Coneflower, Black Butterfly |
So today I salute these beauties. Both have prominent brown spiny central disks which rise about the surrounding petals. The disks resemble small inverted brown ice cream cones, swaying in the wind.
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| WOW! More Sunshine! Asiatic Lilies Found Daylight Above Black-Eyed Susan brigade! |
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| JUNE JUBILEE Purple Coneflower and Black-Eyed Susans SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) P.S. The Black-Eyed Susan is actually a wildflower, widespread in US. I bought these starts from a local nursery. However, I have some natural wild ones in a ditch. The difference, if any, cannot be detected by my untrained eye. I will post them soon. [Needless to say, I have a plethora of images of these flowers, and, of wildflowers growing in the stormwater drainage ditch in front of my property....stay tuned as I will be adding then as I have time to sort.] |
14 comments:
Love the wildflowers.
That is about all that will grow
on our property. Those that can survive the heat and remain out of my mowing range.
Did you intend to have the yellow highlights? If you wanted to remove them, there's a drop down list on the 'check spelling' thing, that allows you to click 'ignore', and the yellow background will disappear, I've discovered! Loved you pretty flowers...
Ah yes, lots of Black eyed Susans in the ditches now days. Just lovely. Wonder if you can transplant them.
Great shots.
I love the cone flower too! We don't get too many black-eyed susans, but I wish we did. Do you also get bee-balm. I don't know the real name for it, but they look similar to the cone flower. Love the photos! I feel like I am walking in a field of flowers without leaving my drab desk. Thanks!
Wonderful photos, Carol, and your prose is almost poetry! My helpful (?) neighbor destroyed my Blackeyed Susan with his weedeater, but there is a bit of new growth at the base of the mangled stems, so I'm hopeful for next year.
So, so beautiful! Your photography is simply extraordinary...and I love the way the new blog design shows your work off to full advantage!!! The larger photo sizing is WONDERFUL!!!! Loved this!!! Have a lovely weekend!!! Love, Janine XO
Your pictures of the flowers are so pretty. I like wildflowers because they require minimal upkeep.
The flowers are very nice and you are a little father along than we are here in Ohio.
Beautiful flowers---I like them both. I love wildflowers and prefer a garden to look that way instead of a manicured formal garden. (which of course has its place but not at my house). MB
Loved these pictures. I will have to plant me some of these, to go in my wild places. Good to see you around.
Our purple coneflowers are just beginning to fade a litle. I've deadheaded some other flowers and they are blooming again. Last year I bought Bee Balm and I love it! It didn't do much at all last year, but this year has been a good one. The daylillies have been so pretty this year, too.
Wow! What beautiful flowers!!! I love the Black-Eyed Susan. I think they are my favorite wild flower.
Nice post...makes me want to get outside and work! :)
Just here to check on you...and to give you a hug! Love, Janine xx
Black-eyed susans always make me think of my mother. They were her favourite.
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