#blechnum

Bill Pusztai

@billpusztai.bsky.social

10 months ago

Blechnum spicant, deep fern. Against a blurry green BG, three tightly furled fern fiddelheads. The one in front is in focus and is side-on to us, clearly dhowing the spiral curl. The other two are out of focus.

IB Iris 'Many Mahalos' (J Terry Aiken, 2003). An in-situ photo of a gorgeous peachy-saffron coloured iris with a deep saffron beard. In the BG, more of the same, blurred out. Bright sun

Iris species x 'Eternal Summer' (Chuck Chapman, 2012, 'Forever Blue' x I. aphylla), so named cause it repeat blooms throughout the summer, if it gets enough water. A pair of deep purple iris flowers and one bud, in dappled sun/shade. The flags are evenly purple, the falls get more intensely darker purple toward the throat, where there are rays of light blue. The beard is electric blue with yellow tips toward the throat.

Paeonia x suffruticosa 'Shima-Nishiki'. A many-petalled tree peony flower with brilliant magenta-red petals and a cluster of golden stamens. It's supposed to have red & white striped petals but this plant has never done that.

Back in the garden. Late spring.
#Iris #Blechnum #Paeonia #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Bill Pusztai

@billpusztai.bsky.social

10 months ago

Blechnum spicant, deer fern. Against a blurry backdrop of leaf litter, two tightly curled leaes rise, facing in opposite directions. One is taller than the other. At this stage they have red stems and one only sees a little of the green leaflets.

Dodecatheon meadia 'White Shooting Star'. Against a blurry background of leaves, a group of the flowers. Each is downward facing, with prominent stamens in a conical arrangement, a dark structure at their base, and then above them, the recurved petals that turn sharply upward. The petals are yellow at the proximal end, then white, and twist elegantly upward toward the distal.

Erythronium 'Pagoda', sometime known as dog-tooth violet. Against a blurry background of green leaves, a stem with one open flower, one partially open, and several buds. The open flower is downward facing, with pointy pale yellow petals (thus the "dog tooth"), white pistil and deep yellow pollen.

Lunaria annua, honesty. An "x" shaped flower with petals of red violet veined with deep purple and pale yellow stamens. In the bg several more flowers and blurred leafy green.

Spring flowers/plants. #blechnum #dodecatheon #erythronium #lunaria
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany