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Beautiful Fringed Tulip

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When I was going through some of my older pictures on Saturday I came across this lovely fringed tulip photo.

I think this is the most beautiful tulip I grow. Actually this is possibly one of the most beautiful flowers of any kind that I grow.

I love it’s delicate fringes at the end of each petal. They’re unusual yet very pretty.

This tulip does well in my garden. It’s multiplying well. I should have dug up some of the bulbs last spring and planted some elsewhere so I could have more groupings of this tulip in other areas of the garden. I’ll have to try to remember to do that next spring.

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Balloons in the garden

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Wordless Wednesday

Balloon Flower Purple

The Balloon flower is a pretty flower once it becomes established in your garden.

I have three of this bluish purple kind, as well as two white balloon flower plants and one pink balloon flower plant. Yes, I love balloon flowers. Can you tell?

In the lower right corner I think that you can see a bud forming. The petals are folded in and as the bud grows it looks like a hollow ball or a balloon. When it finally opens the flower appears as above.

Unfortunately the flower, once it’s bloomed, doesn’t last long – perhaps a day at most. The flower dies quickly and droops like a wet rag.

I’d just finished picking off a bunch of dead flowers before I took this photo. That’s why there’s so many flowerless stalks. When a dead bloom is plucked off it’s stalk a milky white substance drips from the damaged stalk to heal the wound.

The scent of a rose

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Can you smell it?

I can.

Of course I know exactly how beautiful this Prince Napoleon rose smells. Just one look at some of my rose photos brings the scent right back to me. Just gazing at this rose makes me feel as if it’s scent surrounds me.

I think next winter I’ll spend some time each day looking at my photographs so I can remind myself of the gardens beauty and scent.

If you grow scented flower you’ll hopefully know exactly what feeling I’m talking about. Once you get that intoxicating scent in your mind it doesn’t fade easily.

I love this rose. It’s a true beauty and so very hardy!

Click on the photo. You’ll be taken to my flickr account and then at the top of the image look for “all sizes” once you click that a larger version of this image should appear. It’s worth viewing in full size.

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