Arty journeys...

LITTLE ARTY JOURNEYS . . . LOOKING CLOSER, SEEING DEEPER.

Monday 17 September 2018

Catching up - two walks last week (Coombe Wood)

Walk 1

The fluffy bulrushes. 

Paths in between the colourful prairie beds.

Flower middle - wonderful patterns - and all those little curls.

Bee crawling round and round. 

Another banana flower.

A different hydrangea - recently planted. The petals have serated edges.

The other banana flower. 

Spindle berries blushing red.

Surprisingly wide stem on these. Light through petals.

Tiny buds covered in dew.

 Twisty pods.

Lichen.

New mistletoe plants growing in the forks of branches.

Reds.

Orange abutilon,  wonderful mottled leaves and gorgeous red flower spikes growing through the abutilon.

Orange and yellow tubular flowers and love-in-a-mist (nigella) pods.

 Tiny deep red flowers.

 Walk 2.

Cyclamen 

taking no notice of the wire mesh fence.

Illuminated flowers.

The fuchsias danced in the breeze and bobbed around when bees landed on them.

I thought the leaves on the Judas tree were turning brown but looking closer I saw that they were seed pods not brown leaves.


 Thalictrum with dew drops.

Grass seed heads.

I caught sight of the gardener in the distance but he disappeared around the corner, cutting grass around the edges of the flowerbeds - the only evidence of his presence was the wheelbarrow.

Golden rain tree pods turning from pale green to bronzy gold.

Something else is happening to the new hydrangea - lilac thready explosions are bursting out.

Spiders web in the sunlight.

Another new plant - lovely colours.


I've hardly seen any fungi this year - other friends have seen loads.

Candyfloss tree (burning bush - my name for it)






Hydrangea

 Cosmos with tubular petals.

Orange flower - love the shaggy middle.

The usual sort of cosmos.

Hover fly.

Love the shadow! 

Pink Dahlia and pink cosmos with tubular petals. 

Feathery Cosmos leaves with other flowers growing through. 

Teasels.

Pinkness peeping out from deep in among the other grasses and flowers.

Thalictrum again.

Pokeberry leaves turning red.

Pokeberry berries! 



Abundance of berries. 

Beg red stripey leaves.


Hops 

Grapes.

More baby grapes forming.

Rose.

Thank you very much for joining me. 

2 comments:

  1. wow, what fabulous photos - love the shadow of the bee on the cosmos. I am sure there'll be plenty more funghi when it gets damper!

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