Floral interlude

[puddleshark]

Rose Chafer. Such beautiful beetles! "The metallic green coloration of the beetle is created structurally, by the reflection of mostly circularly-polarised light; like other scarabs, this is left circularly polarised: When viewed through a right circular polariser, the beetle appears to be colorless." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetonia_aurata

One rose - just one - in flower in the Rose Garden at the Secret Garden, though the buds are appearing. But there's no shortage of colour in the salvia beds:




Salvia 'So Cool Pale Blue'.


Upsy-daisy.

Comments

[puddleshark]

Thanks!

Well, I suppose the beetle is a bit of a pest if you are a rose lover. But it's a very pretty pest...