Bright Days of Summer

Color Collage 23/2021 

Color collage challenge appears every two weeks during the summer.

The theme for the next two weeks is Bright Days of Summer.

So Easy Lunaria annua!

The Honesty Plant - Lunaria annua is in bloom. This biennial is a beautiful and easy 

spring flower that needs absolutely no care. I don't have the patience to peel the seedheads, 

I just throw them around in the autumn. That is why they grow every year in different places. 

This year they are most abundant in a shady corner beside our terrace.

There is one white one as well.

I wish that I can keep them standing straight till the silver dollar phase!

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Friday Bliss #142 - Tulips & Roses

For today I made a round summer bouquet with yellow roses and combined forget-me-not

and magic & dramatic black tulip Queen of the Night.

I know that this is an odd combination, but I wanted roses to celebrate my grandson Hannes

who will get his white student cap tomorrow. So lovely to assist the family gathering

after so many months - let’s party!

I promised to tell my experience of the new tulips I planted in the autumn.

Here are my recommendations. I like very much the dramatic Queen of the Night. 

The flaming red above is Purple Doll, very beautiful with striped petals and lily form.

On the right Groenland the flower of which is pretty small. Don’t especially like it.

I’ll try to find more of Purple Dolls in the autumn!

These low tulips are highly recommendable. They have both beautiful variegated foliage, 

the red one is Esperanto and the pale pink China town.

Both of these yellow tulips are highly recommendable.

On the left Akebono with big and heavy blooms. That is why they should be planted 

in an open space, so that they get light from everey direction. I planted them in a wrong place,

a house corner and they bended towards the light. On the right beautiful Spring Green.

To finish a night vision. We have some solar lights on the terrace

and they look fine in the dark.

Thank you for all the lovely comments you leave week after week at Friday Bliss.

Wishing you all a weekend!

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Sorbus aucuparia var. ’Edulis'

About fifteen years ago a friend of mine grafted a branch of Sorbus Edulis

on top of an ordinary young rowan. The tree has grown very well and this year

it is bursting with flowers. The flowers are lushier than those of an ordinary rowan

and the berries are bigger, juicier and dark red.

So wonderful to enjoy this blooming now, because last year the blooming was poor.

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