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at home in the garden
Thanks to Covid-19’s enforced isolation I have finally fulfilled something that has been on my to-do list for years! Once I even bought one of those fancy garden journals but it ended up as a scrap notebook – but now it’s all in hand – and what better and easier place than another blog!!
A garden in a pot
I may only have a potted garden at the moment but I’ve gathered a good many plants over the years and so I’ve put together an inventory of my collection along with pages of plant details, images, growing tips and notes.
The only ‘posting’ I need do for this blog is a monthly update
And since I’m also adding a gallery of plant portraits, it’s a good opportunity to improve my photography skills here. So I put on the Lumix 30mm macro lens and out in the garden I went.
The best time of day is of course morning and evening or overcast skies for those bright colours which pop too much for the camera – an alternative is to switch into monochrome where colour does not distract from form as in the ‘art nouveau’ design of nasturtiums.
Leaves make sensational subjects especially those plants grown more or as much, for foliage than flower, like herbs, euphorbias and hostas.
After the rains is a good time to get out the camera.
Not forgetting all those little details of spider webs and dandelion seeds
Seeking out the beauty of youth is natural enough (this is Thrift/Sea Pink) but I do not overlook the full-blown bloom either. It is also a subject that suits monochrome [click on the slider]
Choosing different angles as well as getting in close to subjects like these plantain lilies is important but so too is the negative space that surrounds and frames – -ultimately its question of personal taste
Please feel free to visit my new blog A Garden in a Pot and if you can ID either of these 2 plants I’d be most grateful.
Useful links:
Plant Photography tips for your garden
20 Comments on “at home in the garden”
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The orange of the nasturtium comes out especially well. My reds & oranges never do, sadly.
Glad you’re finally having the opportunity to keep a garden!
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still rather too orange – must try a better light. – my garden goes wherever I wander!
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Oh, Laura, what a gorgeous garden! I wouldn’t want to leave the house/garden… just to admire all those little miracles surrounding me! 😉
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Needless to say, I just checked your garden blog …sigh!
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thank you for visiting 🙂
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🙂 🌺🌷🌻
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my plants are more precious to me than most of my belongings in the house!
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Oh, I can understand that… and it shows too! 😉
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Your pink plant is a Lewisia. The blue may be some type of gentian
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ahh thank you Eileen – Lewisia never came up in any of my searches but spot on ❤ –
Not a gentian though – this is late Spring flower – small blue-purple on wiry stems. It's maybe clearer in the June potted garden slideshow – 4th image – https://plans4plants.com/
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Difficult with no idea of size – some sort of agapanthus ?
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– 4th image – https://plans4plants.com/ – small florets about 5cm
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Asking a friend who used to run a nursery and is a florist . . .
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Eileen’s right with the Lewisia, such a beauty which loathes the wet as I found out! And I love your slider and taped images, what are you using to produce that style? I shall be over to look at your flower blog too.
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thanks for seconding that Jude – the Lewisia survived the wet winter I’m pleased to say and bloomed like crazy.
The ‘taped images’ are a template I have put into photoshop – both as rectangular and squared ones and then just have to paste in the images below it – any use to you? If so can send you the templates.
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I wouldn’t want to steal your unique style, such a clever idea though!
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I am still haunted / escorted by too many pots of bulbs. Which travelled with me from garden to garden to garden.
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I liked the idea of them as escorts 🙂
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Lovely photographs!
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thank you for stopping by to enjoy them
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