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Sonntag, 13. September 2015

In the cottage garden...


Today afternoon: the cottage garden of the botanical insitute of the University of Wuerzburg.
 
Some flowers in (mainly) yellow and pink, take a peep and enjoy!



Cosmos flowers of different species




 American species [Coreopsis pubescens] of the tickseed / Mädchenauge.


Rudbeckia fulgida / Gewöhnlicher Sonnenhut / orange coneflower



Jerusalem artichoke [Helianthus tuberosus], also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour


Echinacea purpurea / Purpur-Sonnenhut / purple coneflower


 
„I see you...“


Freitag, 20. Juni 2014

Evening stroll...


...in a small preserve area close to the Tauber Valley.


Today it's raining cats and dogs.

But yesterday my sweetheart and I enjoyed one of these perfect summer evenings with perfect mix of temperature, wind, sunshine and great nature.


Strolling along a narrow foot path of our small natural reserve was like a short getaway from daily routine.


As a reward making a stand against gravity and getting up from our sofa we had plenty of accidental meetings with the local "population": grashoppers, butterflies and various beautiful floral gems.


Here's a pair of Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) butterflies we call 'Schachbrett' (literally translated into chess board) in German.


The umbels of this species of grass glowed in the light of the low evening sun.


And here comes a trio of purple beauties...


brown knapweed - Centaurea jacea - Wiesen-Flockenblume


I assume this might be one of the Gymnadenia orchid species, but I'm not absolutely sure...


...and even here I was not sure what kind of beauty I had I front of my lens.

Does anybody know????




Ok, even the most beautiful evening must come to an end.

I hope you enjoyed our evening stroll.

A pleasant weekend to all of you!




Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011

Just fed up with winter...


...I want sun's warmth, flowers, spring fever!!! ;-)


Not for the first time when we felt a kind of winter depression we went to the greenhouses of the botanical garden of Wuerzburg University. 


There you find a inkling of spring with all its pleasant sides.
And some beautiful orchids and other tropical plants.

On top you see what I guess is a Cattleya hybrid. A species with hundreds of different variants and a countless variety of blossom colours.


Much more common on your window sill and better known is this Phalaenopsis hybrid - here a purple species.


No idea what type of plant I capured here - but I like it.