One day  I found myself in a large bed of roses and flowering annuals when I spotted this particular rose.  A friend of mine would call it a ‘fruit salad’ garden as it had pretty much a bit of everything with no apparent colour scheme.  I had been somewhat overwhelmed by this riot of colour and was lucky to have seen this beautiful unfolding rose bud.  Unfortunately the plant was not tagged so I don’t know the variety but I suspect it is probably a type of David Austin.

Photo taken on my old camera, a Fuji Finepix.

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Do you know, just sometimes it pays to be lazy.  Afterall it was sheer laziness that enabled me to capture these shots!

Recently Mike was away on a trip to America and Canada.  On the day he left he very thoughtly sent flowers to my work.  They were giant gerberas in shades of yellow, gold and orange.  You’d swear they were fed steroids they were so big.  A far cry from the dainty little daisies my mother grew when I was still living at home.  Anyway after parading my body-builder gerberas around the office I took them home and enjoyed them each day. 

  As they began to wilt I kept telling myself to throw them out but somehow never managed to find the time.  Okay so that’s where the laziness comes in.  We had a couple of super hot days and the poor things were finished off quick smart.  I’m ashamed to admit that I still left them sitting in the dry vase dessicating away.  But then something kinda cool happened…

 The flower heads completely fell apart releasing hundreds of fluffy umbrella shaped seeds.  The ray florets (they’re the parts most people think of as the gerbera petal but technically they’re ray florets) were still full of colour and made for an interesting composition.  Well I thought so.  I hope you like them too!

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