June is a time for flowers. Mostly, I love to see wild flowers growing randomly in hedgerows, woods or meadows. I am not really someone who habitually enthuses about garden flowers - nor shop bought cut flowers that mostly arrive in this country from commercial growers in The Netherlands.
However, at the top of this blogpost there's a photograph of a pink peony I took in the gardens of Fonthill House. Below there are two pictures of blue delphiniums that I saw in the same gardens. In the sunshine, that blue was so vivid.
In village churches you may be lucky enough to see the handiwork of unnamed and unseen amateur florists. Often this will be after or just before significant services or festivals . When I visited St Peter's Church in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, this corner display happened to catch my eye...
That's the best crop of delphiniums I've ever seen, and the church flower arrangement looks very professional.
ReplyDeleteThat is an incredible blue; I don't even know what to call it. I adore blue and violet flowers. Coral/orange ones and two-toned blooms also. I like the unusual.
ReplyDeleteYou remind me of some elderly ladies who arranged flowers for my church in the past, each with their own style and all of them dedicated to blessing the congregation every week.
ReplyDeleteI like all your photos but I'm kind of crazy about pink so the peony takes the medal
That peony is beautifully full. And I love blue flowers of any kind, so I appreciate the delphinium photos. I do find it difficult to take pictures of blue flowers, for some reason. I'll blame my camera :)
ReplyDeleteI, to, love flowers just growing wild.
ReplyDeleteSo sometimes the flowers need to be moved inside for a reason. Talented people create great displays.
ReplyDeleteFabulous delphs. In my garden the snails love them as much as I do unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteYellow is my favorite colour, but blue comes a strong second, and so those incredibly blue delphiniums are really stunning!
ReplyDeleteLike you, I love wildflowers, and this time of year is particularly great for them, although it is way too dry here. Somehow they still thrive, but I notice there are significantly less poppies on the fields than last year, when we had more rain.
As someone who habitually enthuses about flowers, I like your photos today YP.
ReplyDeleteCan't beat a delphinium for blueness. Well maybe the blue poppy and bluebells. Your mention of Swallowcliffe reminds me of the Saxon burial there of a young woman. It was a bed burial, sounds comfortable! She is called the Swallowcliffe Princess....
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That's a lovely arrangement. I've never been able to do more than plonk the bunch into a vase of water and hope they survive. I don't bring cut flowers inside anymore anyway, not since my hayfever and asthma got worse. The delphiniums are absolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWhere better to be than an English country garden on a fine summer's day? The church flowers make a beautiful mixed arrangement - someone has a good "eye" for symmetry and the unusual.
ReplyDeleteMy mom used to have a row of peony bushes in front of the old farmhouse. They used to be the homerun "fence" for our cupball games, mostly because neither of us wanted to run through them with all the ants and bees that were always around them.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I really didn't care for them as a kid, I have been thinking more and more of getting a few to plant somewhere behind our house just to remind me of those days.
I am not the best gardener so I am always so pleased when anything I have planted blooms! Right now the snapdragons are starting to open and I think I will have a lovely variety of colors to enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI love those blue delphiniums you photographed! Perfect color!
Somehow to my eye, flowers that blue do not even seem real. But they are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThose delphiniums are so vivid! I'm pretty sure those blue lilies don't exist in nature but they look nice in an arrangement. As you know, I never stop enthusing about garden flowers!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. I'm still waiting for my delphiniums to bloom, a few more weeks I think but thank you for reminding me what they will look like.
ReplyDeleteI love fresh flowers. What a gorgeous shade of blue on those delphiniums!
ReplyDeleteThe pink Peony photo is excellent.
ReplyDeleteI remember once someone telling me there is no true blue food. I wonder if the same goes for flowers and those blooms you saw could have been spray painted in the dark of night by devious Dutch graffiti artists.
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