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Double Bloodroot / Sanguinaria canadensis f. multi…
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Elephant's ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Life in the cemetery
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A little blossom flower
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Pasqueflower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Colour for a dreary day
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Chionodoxa forbesii, white
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Barberry
Muscari sp., white
Welcoming the sun
Sharp and soft
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Freeze!
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Poppy seedpod
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It tickles!
Deep pink Peony
Lest we forget
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Mullein / Verbascum thapsus
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Vibrant colour to warm us all up
Orange Hawkweed
Cabbage White butterfly
Beetle necklace
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Sparkling in the sunlight
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Elegant beauty
Cornflower
Christmas colours in July
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Lily macro
A welcome splash of red
Monkeyflower / Mimulus
A touch of blue
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Allium up close
Harvestman
Longing for Poppy time
Delicate Cornflower
Potentilla nepalensis, 'Miss Wilmott'
Nicotiana (Tobacco Plant)
Vibrant Lilies
Hanging bud
Golden Columbine / Aquilegia chrysantha
White Baneberry berries
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Autumn Crocus
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The colours of summer
Poppy seedhead with pink bokeh
Dragonfly paradise
Dreaming of summer flowers
Summer dreams
Another day closer to spring
Newly burst Poppy
Purple and white
White Admiral
A splash of colour
Summer memories
Let the sun shine
Soft touch of colour
Artistic Lily
Shaggy Manes
The "warmth" of a Straw Flower
Need some colour
More snow is on its way
A splash of much-needed colour
Poppy seedpod
LEST WE FORGET
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Just before it jumped
Glad to see Gladioli
A fancy fungus
Gorgeous Iris
An attractive Dragonfly perch
Vibrant pink
Love those hairy bracts
Little hearts in a row
Blue in the shade
Like scoops of strawberry & peach ice-cream
Snacking on grass
Blowing in the wind
Showy lady's-slipper
The beauty of an invasive weed
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Almost as good as sunshine
The beauty of Irises
Globeflower / Trollius chinensis
The beauty of Alliums
Tulipa turkestanica
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Baby cone of a Larch tree
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Old Puffballs
This photo was taken at the Reader Rock Garden yesterday, 6 May 2015, when I called in after a volunteer shift. Despite the fact that they are old ones from last year, it still felt good to finally see some kind of fungus.
"A puffball is a member of any of several groups of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage. The distinguishing feature of all puffballs is that they do not have an open cap with spore-bearing gills. Instead, spores are produced internally, in a spheroidal fruitbody called a gasterothecium (gasteroid ('stomach-like') basidiocarp). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruitbody that is often of a distinctive color and texture. The basidiocarp remains closed until after the spores have been released from the basidia. Eventually, it develops an aperture, or dries, becomes brittle, and splits, and the spores escape. The spores of puffballs are statismospores rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not actively shot off the basidium. The fungi are called puffballs because clouds of brown dust-like spores are emitted when the mature fruitbody bursts, or in response to impacts such as those of falling raindrops." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffball
"A puffball is a member of any of several groups of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage. The distinguishing feature of all puffballs is that they do not have an open cap with spore-bearing gills. Instead, spores are produced internally, in a spheroidal fruitbody called a gasterothecium (gasteroid ('stomach-like') basidiocarp). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruitbody that is often of a distinctive color and texture. The basidiocarp remains closed until after the spores have been released from the basidia. Eventually, it develops an aperture, or dries, becomes brittle, and splits, and the spores escape. The spores of puffballs are statismospores rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not actively shot off the basidium. The fungi are called puffballs because clouds of brown dust-like spores are emitted when the mature fruitbody bursts, or in response to impacts such as those of falling raindrops." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffball
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