Summer Aster - Blooms in purple or violet?

Now we have the lovely summer aster in violet or hot pink or even purple? Sooo difficult to define the colours - even for me as a painter - and additionally all images look different depending on the monitor you have got. What a dilemma!! :)

"Callistephus chinensis" (Asteraceae)
aster, Sommeraster

daily photos from Munich, photography by Petra Voegtle

Early Summer Aster...

Sweet little flowers you can often find in a bowl for plants at the entrance of homes...

"Callistephus chinensis" (Asteraceae)
aster, Sommeraster

daily photos from Munich, photography by Petra Voegtle

A Colour between blue and purple....

Depending on the setting of your monitor - this colour appears blue or deeply violet. I have hardly seen a colour so intense such as this on a bloom.

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

all photos are from Munich - photographed by Petra Voegtle

Petasites Blooms

A strange little plant you will always find beginning of spring near to water... It is a healing plant that serves as a painkiller. Its tiny blooms are loveley...

"Petasites" (Asteraceae)
Pestwurz

All photos are from Freiburg - photography by Petra Voegtle

Petals in Orange...

Asters are my absolute top favourite blooms in autumn. I especially love their warm colours and cannot get enough photographing them in all their shades and hues.
Don't forget to click on the photos for enlargement - only then you can see their little jewels - dewdrops...

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

Copper Shades....

I especially love this wonderful shading of orange - copper - yellow - no colour could be warmer than these...

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

More Autumn Colours

I love Asters - their colours are so intense during this time of the year and their little blooms always seem to have little happy faces...

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

Aster in Pink...

An Autumn Still Life

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

Fall Colours in Lilac....

For me it is very consoling that I can still see a lot of colours by this time of the year. I really hope there is still some time left before everything becomes dull and boring....

"Aster" (Asteraceae)

Yellow Suns in Autumn Times

Sun colours in fall...

"Aster"(Asteraceae)

Colour Spots in between...

Dahlias are the last flowers of summer. I love them very much for their colour intensity. But it is also an ambivalent love - knowing that the cold times are not far away any more...

GTS - Green Thumb Sunday

One of the late summer greetings of this year. The friendly turquoise colour of the hut and the bright pink dahlia - what could be a better reminiscence of warm summer evenings in the garden?

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Late Dahlia

Yes - you can find them still - some gardens still have flowers - a little bit "used" by the wind and the rain but as long as there is no frost they are still living. This one has been photographed a couple of weeks ago though...

"Dahlia" (Asteraceae)

The prettiest Sunflower I have ever seen...

Well - the last 3 days I really had an ordeal: computer crash - everything locked up because of a problem between my internet security program and the internet connection provider. I finally managed to get my system back running smoothly. So there was no GTS - photo yesterday as you can imagine - I spent about 14 hours yesterday only on the computer to get it running again. Now I can relax again and get back to normal work.

For you (and my my own soul healing - LOL) I want to show you the prettiest sunflower smile I have ever seen. This must be a new breed because I have never seen these before. When I saw them for the first time I had to laugh out loud because they looked so marvellously funny and made me simply happy. What a flower!!!

Be sure to click on the images for enlargement (as always) - Btw - I did not change these colours artificially - it was just a perfect day with a perfect flower!

"Helianthus"

sunflower, Sonnenblume

Red Dahlia with a sweet Visitor...

I love not only these flowers but especially the frequent visitors such as bumble bees. I love their humming noise and could watch them for hours...

The CSI Dahlia...

I am watching too much CSI on tv I think but I could not help - to me this bloom looks as if sprinkled with blood - looks a bit creepy - doesn't it??

"Dahlia" (Asteraceae)

Dahlien

The Colour of the Sun...

One of the last for this year I think - oh I am going to miss these, their colours...

Little yellow Suns

These are really little happy suns...how do you call it in English? In German we call them "sun bride" - literally translated...

"Helenium" (Asteraceae)
Sonnenbraut

Here comes the Sun...

My viewers are often telling me that my photos make them smile - and this makes ME very happy and lets me smile. And you know what - each time I see a sunflower it makes me smile also - I swear each time...

"Helianthus" (Asteraceae)
sunflower, Sonnenblume