Yearning for summer flowers. Norfolk Botanical Garden.
"Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive." ~ GoetheIn the middle of winter with the bones of nature rattling in the preserve, I yearn for the gorgeous flowers of summer. The botanical garden here has a huge field of wildflowers with a white washed rough hewn fence that is beautiful in summer and fall. The colors of the rainbow shine out from the foliage and the mixture of reds and yellows as well as purple and white are just lovely. I know that the red flowers are bee balm or Monarda, but I'm not sure about the yellow or purple. Most of these are either perennials or annuals that reseed themselves and the garden suggests this as a "wild" natural yard alternative. If I had a huge yard with three or four acres of land, I would let one of them become a beautiful and wild, complex and simple field of rainbows like this.
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10 comments:
The yellow ones are cosmos, but I can't see thye purple well enough to know what they are.
I always tell Phil I don't want grass in the front yard, only wildflowers. But for some reason, he is not WILD about the idea! I hate it the first time he mows the dandelions!
i sat and stared for a while at this, gorgeous and makes me happy to look at it. i love fields of flowers and would love to have wild flowers growing on a few acres. thanks for a preview of spring
That picture makes me want to take off for the southern hemisphere where the flowers are blooming. My boss wants me to stay here tho. :(
Lovely image!
It has been many years since I visited the Norfolk Botanical gardens. It is a lovely place.
My daughter lives in Chesapeake.
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I agree as I have those cosmos in my yard. Can't see the purple. Love the combo though of red, yellow and purple.
what a happy photo, so many great colors !
So pretty and I like the quote as well.
Beautiful! Thanks for the little taste of summer. I think your yellow ones are coreopsis. Don't know the purple ones, though.
I would love to do that across the pond... hmmm....
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