I spent a few minutes snapping some pics of my garden the other day and wanted to see how many of these you can all name. They are all common flowers, but look so different up close like this. And a couple of random shots in the garden. My new garden gnome is solar-powered and lights up at night. My 4 year old son loves it. A pretty visitor that posed for me.
Nice photos! The first is a Knautia and the third a Centaurea macrocephala. Could the white one (#4) be a salvia? Love your butterfly photo.
Is the fourth piccie a foxglove by any chance? Droopy is so much better at IDing plants than I am so I'll agree with her choice of names for the rest.
I wonder if no. 2 is an alyssum? If it is, I shall have to keep my eyes open when I bend down to smell them.
Well, Droopy wins the prize - bragging rights! The first is a knautia, although I have always called them scabiosa. The second is alyssum. The third is globe centaurea before it blooms. The last one was trickier. It is penstemon. Good job guessing! Now somebody else play! I love to try and id flowers.
I don't know any either........but they are all so beautiful --- I especially like the first one, the Red one! All very beautiful, that must be some camera and that butterfly shot is wonderful too! Thanks I want a gnome.....how cute!
Do you have the full name of it? We've tried several Penstemon here, but with little luck. Since I can grow the other stuff you've got I might be able to grow that Penstemon too.
Droopy, it is penstemon digitalis Husker Red. The foliage of it is a beautiful dark red/dark green and the flowers are mostly white with a little blush color. It does really well here in WI and supposedly attracts hummingbirds.
Thanks, I shall have to check it up. We haven't got hummingbirds, but they might attract butterflies instead.
Cactusflower, I forgot to reply to you about the camera. Currently the camera I'm using is a teeny Canon digital Elph SD1000. It really doesn't take that great of zooms, but if I take multiple pics, one usually turns out. I'd like a new camera that does focus better on the close-ups.
You all are such early birds! I would have guessed them all wrong. Good way to learn, even though I look at garden catalogues all the time. Very good photos. Gardengater
