Summer Garden in 2021 shows eight images captured in the last 24 hours in the garden areas in-front of and at the rear of our house. First up is a close up image of a pink poppy. People call these “Opium Poppies” however I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The flower petals only last a day before they die. The fascinating thing here is the vast amount of yellow nectar spread all over the petals. These poppies self seed themselves all over the place.

Phlomis russeliana

The second image is the dramatic Phlomis, or Phlomis russeliana to be correct! It has tall upright stems hold many whorls of yellow flowers that stack up looking rather like a chandelier! The layers of a wedding cake with the whirls as layers of the cake is an alternative way to see this one! 

Following the Phlomis are two images of the large red poppies which have appeared in a border and capture in the morning light. Unlike the pink poppy they are larger and brighter and have black centres which can be seen a large spiders! Over the last two days eight of the eleven poppy stalks have broken bud. The RHS website has more information on poppies.

Red poppies and red roses

In addition to the red poppies a large red rambling rose is the next image in Summer Garden in 2021. Its petals are really tightly packed and by tomorrow it will have fully bloomed. Another image of the large red poppies follows. The sun shines through the petals in this mid day capture. It gives the feel of having a light bulb behind it.

A salmon pink rose bud has also burst in the border above the poppies. This rambling rose produces salmon pink buds which burst a lighter pink and white. Just noticed that there is a little bug on one of the unopend rose buds. Grrrr! Finally we have an image of an Osteospermum, possibly the Sunshine Beauty variety. This flower is also known as African daisy and I believe it originates from South Africa.

This website contains several other pages of garden galleries. Click here to go to them