Hmm, that was a bit on the large side – sorry! 😦 Picture of a can of Flowers Bitter, now removed.
Oooh, lovely photograph, Boadicea; very exotic looking lily.
Various. I love alstroemeiria at all times of year, but just now, forsythia, tulips and daffodils in the garden are such a promise of spring , as the snowdrops and crocuses were a few weeks ago. Then it’s all about walks in the country and seeing wild primroses and bluebells. Lily-of-the-valley for the start of May. Roses, hydrangea, dahlias…
Good things tend to happen if I buy her flowers that have these in ’em.
Ferret! 🙂
What? 🙂
Pseu, Ferret behave yourselves.
Here’s a flower that is always a joy to find growing in the woods, Lady Slipper, a kind of orchid I think and for some reason increasing rare in the wild.
Paeonies, not the whore’s drawers manic fluffy pink ones but the exquisite doubles and singles.
Garden treasure a rare pale yellow japanese with brown foliage, krinkled white with its monster stamens.
I would post pics but to my vast irritation I see that my archive photos are not on this computer, my laptop self destructed last week and is not worth mending and spousal unit has not transfered all from the ‘bank’ so to speak.
I have gone off pink, it is such overload here in the USA, pink, bloody unending pink, so most of my garden is yellow and white with blue accents. There is one brown/orange bed and pink/maroon is confined to one long bed at the side of the house. Where I keep your asiatic lilies, they do well here we have that quick draining soil that they like. Good bang for buck, I find asiatics very easy if they like the soil, bung them in and walk away, is it the same where you are BO?
Other classes of lilies can be much more difficult in their siting.
Nice cut flowers too, but I personally never cut from my borders, strictly verboten!
Will find pictures later and post.
Beautiful image Boa, and beautifully taken too. I love them too, those stamens are a bugger for staining though. I love camellias, sadly I haven’t got one to hand. Did you know that, in time past, women wore red camellias to show they were menstruating and weren’t available. Or put another way…’Arsenal are playing at home’ 😉
Beautiful image Boa, and beautifully taken too. I love them too, those stamens are a bugger for staining though. I love camellias, sadly I haven’t got one to hand. Did you know that, in time past, women wore red camellias to show they were menstruating and weren’t available. Or put another way…’Arsenal are playing at home’
Wow! You live and learn.
Hee Hee Tocino,
I prefer the term;
“Watch out mate, she’s got the painters in.”
🙂
I must admit that the first thought that entered my mind was in line with Pseu and Ferret, great minds think alike, or is it fools never differ, I’ll let you decide.
Thanks for the comments – all of them! 🙂
I love these particular lilies because they smell so beautifully. I’m with you Christina on the pink bit, I do prefer them to be orange, but the shops here don’t seem to stock many in that colour. If it’s a choice of no lilies or pink lilies…
Flowers are far more expensive here in Brisbane than any where else we’ve lived. I tried to grow them once (in Adelaide) but, like most of my gardening efforts, nothing grew…
We can often get orange and yellow cut lilies on the local market. He sometimes has pink, but not so often.
Probably now I have written that he’ll only ever have pink ones now.
English Spring flowers for me, Bo. I can admire many more though, and your picture is beautiful.
Pseudonyms for menstruation, now I didn’t expect to find that on a flower post! (On the rag, closed for maintenance, the curse, Aunty Flo, we’ve got visitors, etc.)
And how do you deal with it? ‘Ammunition’ of course.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Self Raising. 🙂
Hmm, that was a bit on the large side – sorry! 😦
Picture of a can of Flowers Bitter, now removed.
Oooh, lovely photograph, Boadicea; very exotic looking lily.
Various. I love alstroemeiria at all times of year, but just now, forsythia, tulips and daffodils in the garden are such a promise of spring , as the snowdrops and crocuses were a few weeks ago. Then it’s all about walks in the country and seeing wild primroses and bluebells. Lily-of-the-valley for the start of May. Roses, hydrangea, dahlias…
Good things tend to happen if I buy her flowers that have these in ’em.
Ferret! 🙂
What? 🙂
Pseu, Ferret behave yourselves.
Here’s a flower that is always a joy to find growing in the woods, Lady Slipper, a kind of orchid I think and for some reason increasing rare in the wild.
Paeonies, not the whore’s drawers manic fluffy pink ones but the exquisite doubles and singles.
Garden treasure a rare pale yellow japanese with brown foliage, krinkled white with its monster stamens.
I would post pics but to my vast irritation I see that my archive photos are not on this computer, my laptop self destructed last week and is not worth mending and spousal unit has not transfered all from the ‘bank’ so to speak.
I have gone off pink, it is such overload here in the USA, pink, bloody unending pink, so most of my garden is yellow and white with blue accents. There is one brown/orange bed and pink/maroon is confined to one long bed at the side of the house. Where I keep your asiatic lilies, they do well here we have that quick draining soil that they like. Good bang for buck, I find asiatics very easy if they like the soil, bung them in and walk away, is it the same where you are BO?
Other classes of lilies can be much more difficult in their siting.
Nice cut flowers too, but I personally never cut from my borders, strictly verboten!
Will find pictures later and post.
Beautiful image Boa, and beautifully taken too. I love them too, those stamens are a bugger for staining though. I love camellias, sadly I haven’t got one to hand. Did you know that, in time past, women wore red camellias to show they were menstruating and weren’t available. Or put another way…’Arsenal are playing at home’ 😉
Wow! You live and learn.
Hee Hee Tocino,
I prefer the term;
“Watch out mate, she’s got the painters in.”
🙂
I must admit that the first thought that entered my mind was in line with Pseu and Ferret, great minds think alike, or is it fools never differ, I’ll let you decide.
Thanks for the comments – all of them! 🙂
I love these particular lilies because they smell so beautifully. I’m with you Christina on the pink bit, I do prefer them to be orange, but the shops here don’t seem to stock many in that colour. If it’s a choice of no lilies or pink lilies…
Flowers are far more expensive here in Brisbane than any where else we’ve lived. I tried to grow them once (in Adelaide) but, like most of my gardening efforts, nothing grew…
We can often get orange and yellow cut lilies on the local market. He sometimes has pink, but not so often.
Probably now I have written that he’ll only ever have pink ones now.
English Spring flowers for me, Bo. I can admire many more though, and your picture is beautiful.
Pseudonyms for menstruation, now I didn’t expect to find that on a flower post! (On the rag, closed for maintenance, the curse, Aunty Flo, we’ve got visitors, etc.)
And how do you deal with it? ‘Ammunition’ of course.