Summer in the Walled Garden

[puddleshark]

If you click to go to Flickr, and zoom in on the bottom flower, there is someone in residence, and it is not Ariel.

A very humid day, and not much daylight. It felt like it might be raining even when it was not. But soft grey light is good for photographing bright flowers, so I headed over to Moreton to see the spectacular display of annual flowers in the Sundial Garden.



Let's not bother with restraint. A profusion of weeds and wild flowers: red poppies, orange calendula & yellow corn marigolds, blue cornflowers, borage & viper's bugloss.






I don't know what this is, but it's dazzling.




Crown daisy?


I have been told the name of this more than once, but it never sticks in my brain...


Nice to see a few bumblebees visiting the poppies.




And if Tempus fugit, you can always guard it with some fierce-looking Canna lilies.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

Wow. You're right. The grey makes those flower colors pop.

[puddleshark]

Yeah, on a dull day those poppies just blaze away!

[heleninwales]

The flowers look wonderful, especially that profusion of wild flowers and weeds. You're right that an overcast sky can be better than bright sunlight for some subjects.

[puddleshark]

One day I must ask the gardeners how they achieve such a dense carpet of flowers. I wonder if they just scatter seed? Lots of seed. The effect is fabulous.

[heleninwales]

There are a couple of flower beds in town where the council produced that effect last year. But this year was very disappointing, so I suspect you need to plant the seeds every year and can't just leave them to do their own thing.

[puddleshark]

Yes, last time I visited this garden, at the end of winter, the beds had been cleared, so I think they must reseed the beds completely each year.

[sartorias]

Such colors!

[puddleshark]

Yes! So much colour! Who cares if the sky is grey?

[zenigotchas]

Good stuff

[puddleshark]

It is a fabulous garden.

[house_wren]

oh thank you for the poppies!

[puddleshark]

You're welcome!

[lamentables]

Lovely.
I am trying to achieve the same lack of restraint in what was our second parking space. It is a work in progress.

[puddleshark]

Every year I hopefully scatter a mix of poppy and cornflower and calendula seeds, hoping for a fabulous profusion of flowers, but all I ever get is two poppies and a big clump of ox-eye daisies. It's a good job I love ox-eye daisies.