Thought I'd share some of my currently open 'blue' flowers. Most are fairly true to colour; all cameras (digital included) can alter shades of blue so its a challenge to take blue flowers. This is Anemone nemorosa 'Allenii'
Feeling Blue
The ever popular Aquilegia flabellata 'Ministar'
Nice looking flower..
Ingrid
Gentiana acaulis...perhaps the most intense blue flower!
Omphaloides verna
Phlox subulata 'Oakington Blue Eyes'
Your blues are looking in the pink Todd! Ü
LOL
That's neat that your Gentiana acaulis grows in the stones like that.
;) Glad to see you with us again Ingrid......we are all crossing our fingers for your Dillon!!!
Thanks Pam..
wow Todd
i don't think I've ever seen a real flower with that deep a blue as your Gentiana acaulis. It's amazing. Nice clolumbine too.
Linda
Very nice pics Todd, glad you shared them with us. Save some seeds so we can trade later.
Have a great week.
Marilyn
Wonderful photos, as usual, Todd. I am a Columbine fan, so I loved yours. A little different variety than the ones I have. Very nice. The Anemone nemorosa and Omphaloides verna were stunning as well. I love blue, my favorite color. As you noticed with my Clerodenrum Ungandense. I have Blue Cupid's Dart ( Catananche) planted in my Perennial Garden, but it hasn't bloomed yet. ou can be sure I'll be bugging you with photos when they do. right now, this is what I have blue that's blooming in my wet Garden.
Bluebird Clematis
and a pot of Blue Pansies.
Like the blue pansies...I'll have to pick some of them up. I love blue flowers as well and since I just widened one of my beds by 6", it leaves me room to put in a border of something....a few pansies would not go astray. This is my pot of Gentiana verna. They are too tempermental to plant in the open garden so I grow it (a few other tocky alpines) in pots, overwintered in a cold frame then displayed along my back steps in summer.
Oh, what a lovely blue! Todd, you should go over to the Perennial forum and wow them with you photos over there. They have a thread running right now showing Blue flowers too. :)
Thank You, Todd. How loverly the blues are! On the wetcoast this is a bit of a retrospective of spring and a wonderful reminder or how beautiful and fresh blue is in the garden.
Hi Todd,
Do you know the name of this phlox? Not as pretty as yours with the darker eye but.....
Soaking in Winnipeg with trays and trays of hostas, foxgloves,clematis etc etc etc from plant swop last weekend. It is so soggy, don't wnt to go onto the beds and clay!!!!! is impossible anyway.
Inanda
Where's the pic Inanda? If its a blue Phlox subulata then Emerald Blue is by far the most popular cultivar.
Beautiful flowers as usual, Todd.
:) Donna
Here's a close-up of Viola labradorica. It is really a little more purple than this pic suggests.
Viola cucullata, again a little more purple-blue than bright blue
and if there is one viola species I strongly recommend its Viola corsica. It is a short-lived perennial (2-3 years) but will self-seed. You can see the close resemblance to todays modern violas. The flowers are not blue but close enough!
Todd what kind of camera do you have? You have probably been asked that a lot!
The photo quality is amazing,and the plants aren't half bad either!!
Cheers from the "wet" coast. Solomon.
Solomon, I use a Nikon Coolpix 8800...it has incredible close-up abilities..to within 2 cm of your subject...and with 8 megapixels, the pics can be very crisp indeed.
I come to this forum to feast my eyes on all the plants that I cant have!
How beautiful is the blue...
Thank you all!
Welcome handbright. Glad to see you stop in for a peek and a chat. Don't despair too much, we wish we could grow some of the Tropicals that you can grow in Florida too. What have you got blooming in your garden right now?
Here you are Todd. Have no idea what I did to not send the picture.
Inanda
That's a lovely color too, Ginny.
Lovely pictures, Todd. You are right blues are extremely hard to capture. What kind of optical zoom is on your Coolpix? I am using the 4 megapixel Olympus C-750 Ultra Zoom with 10x optical zoom. I want to go to an 8 mega pixel camera but I am waiting for one to come out with lots of optical zoom. I like to have closeup capabilities for my floral photography but I also like the zoom for the wildlife. Here is one I took of a duck last fall.
Nice pic Songbird....my Nikon has 10X optical zoom, so I can use it for bird photography as well. I'm at work now but I'll post a bird shot taken with the camera when I get home.
Inanda, your phlox is lovely! It is not P. subulata at all, rather, it's Phlox divaricata, and a very healthy specimen by the looks of it.
Songbird, that is gorgeous! Fabulous photography we are seeing on this thread. :)
Here's a bird shot taken with the camera. It's a Savannah Sparrow.
Lovely! Your cameras certainly bring out the detail of their feathers and plummage with wonderful clarity. I am impressed. :D
Thank you Todd. I've been trying to ID it for years.
G
Old Flower Girl! :) Thanks for the welcome! This is one of the prettiest times of the year for us here...Florida means roughly "place of Flowers" and this is when we get em!
The Hibiscus is lovely, but the best is the trees...The Royal Poincienna Trees look like they are on fire! The orange and purple flowers look wonderful against the dark grey sky we've had thanks to this tropical storm. The Tabuia trees are bright lemon yellow arcs of almost glowing color too. The Crepe Myrtle trees are bowed down with blossoms. We have had so much rain here, after a relative dry couple of weeks, that the trees are especially wonderful! I saw a ylang-ylang the other day that was just fabulous, probably 8 feet high, I drove into the subdivision for a closer look-but it was gated...(maybe I could have I.D'ed myself as a plant police person!)
Still, even with all this wonder around me, I miss the flowers of my youth :).
I grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. My Dad was a scientist, and an avid gardner. Botany was his hobby. So my early garden memories all revolve around gardening in colder climes than these...
Hydrangea and lilacs, and peonies and roses...Thank goodness for Daves where I can take a virtual vacation by coming to this forum!
Happy Gardening!
Amy
Gee, I guess we never think of you lucky people in beautiful Florida ever in awe of colder climate plants and flowers. I can appreciate that. I would surely miss my roses, lilacs and hyrdangeas if I didn't see them every year. We do take our lovely flowers for granted, for sure. Thanks for that reminder. But you have such a wonderful array of tropical plants you can grow there that we can only dream of...sigh, ylang-ylang...that's something that we only know is an ingredient in some shampoos! LOL So, I guess the grass is always greener, as they say. Thanks for stopping in Amy. Hope you'll come visit again soon. :Donna
Nice picture of the Savannah Sparrow! I appreciate how hard it is to get a picture of those little things! Small birds have to be the hardest to photograph cause they are always flittering about! I just added the Nikon Coolpix 8800 to my wishlist. It's exactly what I have been lookiing for in a camera. Thanks so much for the info!
Here is the only blue thing I have, I think, and I can't remember what it is.
But are seeds for that gentian easy to find? I'll bet it would grow well on my roof.
