Such a stand out ...
because she's the only one of her sort there ... in one of my zen havens, a public botanical garden half an hour drive away from our place.
Year after year, I come to this place in the hope of seeing her in bloom ... (well, not just her of course) and there she would always be, where she was and have always been, with her petals looking up as if happily adoring the clear blue sky.
Year after year, she seems to look the same. Never taller, never bushier but always full of buds and blooms.
The first time I met her, I mistook her petals for leaves. She was standing there in the middle of easter eggs, witches' painted nails and lipstick tips, looking so mesmerizingly beautiful and so different that eventhough a thousand sort of the same kind of flowers were also in bloom like she was, my eyes sort of got glued upon her.
Year after year, many bees and butterflies must have kissed her fully opened flower yet not a sign of any offspring. It's all grass around her, well mowed and not a sight of any other plant sprouting underneath her bottom trunks ...
and this ...
isn't this a bunch of seeds? Makes me wonder what happens when they fall off the ground ... or is it just the tip of her flowers' crown that used to adorn her?
For so many years already, she's there ... every spring ... in full bloom like the day I took these pictures. No sight of any other plant that resembles her .
Is it because ... she's the only one of her sort?
Who knows what this plant is called? 5% up to the first one who throws the answer in the comment below with a source.
Pacific Dogwood, my home province's (B.C.) provincial flower.
Bingo!
thanks! I was wondering what's this called!
wait .. your province? we're not talking about a place in Japan or are we?
I thought this was not from here ... thanks for the link!
No, I'm originally from British Columbia, Canada.
Osaka's tree is the Gingko, Blossom: Plum, flower: Primrose. Just had to look that up, I knew the tree though, ginko leaf emblems are everwhere! source
I see .. so this one's Canadian
thanks anyway !
These flowers are so delicately beautiful ! ^_^
thank you
that's cuteness overload and contagiously happy ^ ^
Thank you for this lovely post and prose dear @englishtchrivy.
Such beautiful photographs of these exceptional fleurs. The hues of the photographs coordinate beautifully.
Are these fleurs of the dogwood tree?
All the best.
Abientot mon ami.
thanks mon ami
yes, I love the tones in there ^ ^
you sure noticed :)
I wanted to make cards out of some of the other shots :)
yes, it is
@mweich sent me a link :) earlier on
so you also actually know
hope you're having a great day mon ami
Hiya....dear @englishtchrivy.
No worries.....I did not have a source. ^__^
Yes...cards would be lovely...it was @reddragonfly that had an article concerning printing from digital work....very informative.
Congratulations to @mweich.
Thank you for your kind wishes......a lovely day here.
Wishing you a lovely day as well mon ami.
A bientot.....
Really beautifull and eyes catching
Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
The flowers are beautiful, making the heart more shady when seeing flowers expands the day.
That's the flower from me, thanks for all
if you want to post your pictures put it in your own blog post
post crashing is being frowned here
Wow amazing flower and photography
Strange looking flower, and I get the leafs alike looking idea. No clue about its name though.
morning good Oaldamst!
exotic, ya think?
pretty toch?
Mornin' misses Ivy!
Exotic for sure and unique.
hahaha
S sends his regards to you all, too!
I wonder why it's alone ...
I want to volunteer and participate in keeping the place and the plants there
and I want to perform grafting on this one
to propagate it (plus I want one in my backyard hahahah)
but I think it won't have that same "special and one of a kind appeal" anymore if there's a lot of it there huh?
Kind regards retour from here to there!
Well, you could ask if you could get some seeds, so you can help the preservation of the plant.
It is my first time to see such a flower but actually I am impressed by your definiton of this flower. It really looks clear that you are a lover of nature ;)
Hi enggishtchrivy,
Nice capturing of the beautiful delicate flowers.
hi funny guy
how's it going?
am glad to see you around!
I hope all's well!
I am still around in steemit. I have been blogging more lately. Glad to see you too. I am not posting jokes any more...I am not funny anymore....a dull guy now?
Are u using macro?
This's beatiful flower.
you mean the lens?
18 -15 mm
Yes
Anemone ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone
Still waiting for 30 minutes past the post :-)
I got me anemones in my garden
but these aren't short
they're almost a tree
just half as tall as the tallest magnolia you could imagine
but thanks a lot for trying :D
bummer back to work
lol :D
interesting and elegant shots so good to see that :)
No doubt that she is the one with that much beauty.
I have not really seen one of her kind before but it sure is beautiful .
pretty. never heard about it, but then again me no gardener. :D
:)
no biggie :)
Good day, @englishtchrivy, well, for me that's for sure again exotic, ha ha , but I now read the link from @mweich and saw that this is a very interesting plant. You always have very interesting photos, and today - it also looks very cool. Thank You!
thank you
they are exotic indeed
not from here
but winter hard
yes, Mark was the first to identify it :)
have a great day
off now .. see you next time ^ ^
Very beautiful flowers, unknown to us!
Nice to meet her
Beautiful flower and photography.
coffee?
hmm... smells good
Hi @englishtchrivy, I saw the same plant blooming in autumn therefore looked through search machine, where I have found it blooms twice in april and then in autumn. Also regarding the inner core, it carries berries, little red ones, they come out from the middle and of course they also have inner core and probably seeding this way. Cheers :)
so I've read
I wonder whether they're edible
and how come I never see any young plant sprouting under it
I go there several times a year cause we could picnic, jug and do whatever we want there
as long as no one destroys or harms any plant
but have never seen any sprout
it's bottom is always clean so I wonder whether this needs another plant to cross pollinate
kind'a gives you that familiar feeling of a beautiful woman never bearing a child
nothing against that later though just the first thought that came into mind
That is really weird that you have not seen any sprout but on other side may be you are right and may be another plant is need to pollinate it :)
I saw your post Ivy in the #petals feed earlier today, but I didn't have time to comment. I would never guess the name of this exquisite flower, but I am totaly amazed by her.
I peaked into your comment section to see if someone guessed her name and to my pleasant surprise, I read that this beauty is Canadian. I am absolutely thrilled, because as you may know, I live in Canada. Although, I live in Ontario that is quite far from BC, I am happy nevertheless. I just hope that someday I will have the chance to meet her. In the mean time, I enjoy your stunning photography that captured her so well 🌸💖🌸
yeah she's Canadian indeed :)
Excellent photo shots
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