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All flowers, all the time. I like flowers. I like botany - poking around
in meadows with a magnifyer in one hand and a flora in the other. I like
gardening - getting my hands dirty on my own plot of land. But most of
all I like big, bold, beautiful flowers. So naturally I take photos of
flowers. What follows are most of the flowers I've photographed during
the last few years. They're ordered by flower colour.
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16 July 2002, Westoning, Bedfordshire Lovely salmon pink poppies |
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The pretty flowers of Field Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis, have fooled many into letting it grow in their garden. But it doesn't take long before it engulfs all other flowers and plants and it is almost impossible to eradicate once it gets a foothold. |
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25 June 2000, Barford St. Michael, Oxon A pink Dog Rose, Rosa canina, is flowering in a hedgerow in June. The curious shape on some of the petals is probably caused by slugs. |
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9 September 2000, Chinnor, Bucks One of the prettiest wild flowers is the Common Mallow, Malva sylvestris. Its relatives in the Malvaceae family are often grown in cottage gardens. |
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10 March 2001, Colchester, Essex The Pickwick Crocus is striped in purple and white and has a strongly contrasting stamen in orange. At bulb planting time it is widely available from garden centres. |
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8 July 2001, Christmas Common, Bucks Another showy native, the Willow Herb, Epilobium angustifolium, throws up tall spires of blindingly pink flowers in late summer. The effect is increased because it often grows in large stands. A show stopper in the wild, it wilts within minutes if plucked. |
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28 May 2001, Hambledon, Surrey The humble Red Campion, Silene dioica, is a common wildflower. |
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Indian balsam, Impatiens glandulifera, looks like a garden escape and is one. Like many in the aptly named Impatiens genus, its ripe seed capsules explode when touched. |
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11 August 2000, Mullion Cove, Cornwall A late Early Marsh Orchid, Dactylorhiza incarnata, is growing on top of sea cliffs in Cornwall. |
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28 May 2001, Hambledon, Surrey The common Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, proclaims that summer has indeed arrived in English woodlands. |
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22 July 2001, Barford St. John, Oxon Some wind-battered black hollyhocks, Althaea rosea nigra, make a bold statement in front of a Cotswold stone wall in Oxfordshire. |
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22 June 2001, Sissinghurst, Kent What impressed me most at Sissinghurst is the incredible health and vigour displayed by the plants. This very double pink rose is a case in point. |
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8 July 2002, Chawton, Hampshire Startlingly pink but pretty bedraggled is this rose. |
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12 November 2001, Malaga, Spain A Bougainvillaea was growing up a wall on the pathway up to the Moorish castle. |
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15 July 2000, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire This thistle is a masterpiece of aggressive radial symmetry. |
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A flowering Artichoke is visited by a bumble bee. |
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The Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, were breathtaking in the beech forest of Eawy in Normandy. |
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31 March 2002, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire Pansies with raindrops. Pansies, Viola x wittrockiana, are well worth raising from seed. There are many more seed types to choose from than you'll ever find in the nursery, particularly when it comes to single shades and designer blends. |
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21 June 2001, Igtam Mote, Kent The perfect blue of a cultivated Iris at Igtam Mote. |
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3 June 2001, Leith Hill, Surrey I tentatively identify this wildflower as a Green Alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens. Whatever it is, it has very pretty blue flowers. |
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28 April 2001, Woodstock, Oxon These Forget-me-nots, Myosotis sylvatica, were growing in the dappled shade by the church in Woodstock. |
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