Category: Floral

23 Apr

Tulips Petal Shapes

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Tulips which changed colours from Cadmium Red to peach pink and burgundy

First planting 2022:  Bright dense red with a bronze early appearance. Orangey petal flares and yellow centres. Seven images show how as the tulips age, petals turn to peach blending to pale pink which is predominant on petal edges when the sunlight  catches their luminosity.  The previously black centre changes to burgundy.  Grasses in their wintry dried form make an excellent backdrop to tulips planting.

Tulip Salmon Van Eijk from 2021 planting: Reappeared, with their cerise inner pink delicately blended to pale pink outer petals, contrasting with a deep violet centre.

29 Jul

EDEN PROJECT

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Eden Project is a group of biomes housing Tropical and Mediterranean plants, with corresponding equatorial temperatures.  The quarry situation allows a sun trap for many flowering plants to thrive outdoors too.  Full setting built in an old china clay quarry; a Cornish industry.

The quarry has been organised into different planting areas, including a hot weather planting scheme on the south-facing north side with unusual plants.

07 Apr

Tulip Beauty Salmon Van Eijk

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Tulip Salmon Van Eijk

Salmon pink when closed.  Cerise-magenta centre when open.  Deep violet star shaped centre around violet stamens. Tulips follow the sun while open.

Salmon Pink tulips were early bloomers in 2021; all growing tall.  Pale salmon pink from the outside, but with dramatic navy-violet centres.

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09 Jan

Eden Project Plants

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Image authors own: Hop terrace, and lichen covered engraved wooden totem poles.

The Eden Project is a group of biomes housing Tropical and Mediterranean plants, with corresponding equatorial temperatures kept optimum year round.  The quarry dip situation allows a sun trap for many flowering plants to thrive outdoors too.  Full setting built in an old china clay quarry; a Cornish industry.

The quarry has been organised into different planting areas, including a hot weather planting scheme on the south-facing north side with unusual plants. Cornwall benefits from a specific warm maritime Gulf Stream climate of mild winters.

Sun Bromeliad Fascicularia bicolour from coastal forests of Chile.  Will survive in Uk to -5C.

Echinacea, pink petals when peak flowering. Used medicinally to enhance immune system and treat diseases of the respiratory system.

Common names: American coneflower, Black Sampson, Black Susan, Comb flower, Echinacea, Echinaceawurzel, Hedgehog, Igelkopfwurzel, Indian head, Kansas snakeroot, Narrow-leaved purple coneflower, Purple coneflower, Purpursonnenhutkraut, Racine d'echininacea, Radix Echinaceae, Rock-up-hat, Roter sonnenhut, Scurvy root, Snakeroot, Sonnenhutwurzel

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