I managed to take two or three macro photos which I particularly liked this morning while the sun still shone. It's been raining on and off all day but the rain just adds to the interest sometimes. I noticed that the jasmine officinale has just about finished flowering now although there are a few buds still waiting to burst. The strong winds lately knocked a lot of the flowers off and left the climbing shrub with lots of empty calyxes. A cluster of flowers of the Sempervivum pumilum drew my attention, I don't know why. It looked half dead and I considered dead heading it then scrutinised it down the camera macro lens, and this is what I saw...
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| Sempervivum pumilum - Macro photograph |
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| Jasmine calyxes after the flowers have gone |
I also took what I think is a nice photo of a tiny flower on the Heuchera 'Marmalade'. You'd think these flowers, which are only about 3mm across, would be insignificant but they make quite a statement clustered on a tall stem above a cushion of brightly coloured leaves.
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| Flowers of the Heuchera 'Marmalade' |
Going back in time a bit, to 21 July 2014, I took a photo of a sempervivum (cannot remember which one) but looking down the camera lens, I noticed how bright the reproductive organs were in contrast to the pink flowers. A fly got in on the action and came out quite well, in focus.
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| Sempervivum flower and the fly |
Time travelling forward to yesterday, while sitting on the swing thinking about my next genius photography move, I spotted a red strawberry hiding among a lot of foliage. They have to hide better than that to avoid me spotting them. It's not really a macro photo but let me sneak it in here anyway.
Again in the present, I've been trying to take a decent photo of the Armeria maritima 'pink' (thrift) that I grow. It's a tough little plant and has been flowering since I bought it a few months ago. Today I took a close up, a macro, and although I am not particularly thrilled with the shot, I think you can see how beautiful the flowers are when magnified. It's really worth growing, and pollinating insects love it. There are two flower heads here, side by side.
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| Pink Armeria maritima 'Purple Rose' (thrift). |
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| White Armeria maritima 'Ballerina White' (thrift) |
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