Snow white Bushes but no Snow...

I love these bushes, covered by tiny white blossoms allover. Each year again they are the signs that spring has definitely arrived. This year they bloomed together with forsythia and thus created lovely compostions in some areas. See here.

Although one could think - if you don't look close - that these bushes are somehow covered by snow - and they sometimes get covered by snow in our region - their scent talks a different language. Bees and other insects love these bushes and their buzzing is somewhat soothing.

"Spiraea" (Rosaceae)
spirea, Spierstrauch

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Plushy yellow Bushes...

These bushes with the plushy yellow blossoms you can see here everywhere in spring. The colour is the pure sun just like sunflowers. It is as if they bring back the sunlight and bees love them as you can hear their buzzing allover.

"Kerria japonica" (Rosaceae)
Ranunkelstrauch

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A Reflection on the Colour Red...

What does the colour red mean to you? Do you realize that the pure colour red does not appear very often in nature? I mean the colour code of #FF0000. This is the purest red, kind of tomato red, china red or vermilion, although the latter again have a slight touch of yellow, rather towards orange but without the slightest addition of blue.

Chaenomeles (Rosaceae)
Japanese quince, Zierquitte

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The Dance of Spiraea and Forsythia...

Spring was very short this year but mother nature compensated us for this with the blooming of many plants at the same time - so you could enjoy blossoms which normally appear one after the other such as these - the dance of spiraea and forsythia:

"Spiraea and Forsythia"
(Rosaceae and Oleaceae)

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The last Rose...

Before I am going to pamper you with the colours of fall during the next weeks I have to show you these lovely last roses. I took the photos yesterday, on the 7th of October which is quite late in the year for roses. Aren't they beautiful? A promise for the next spring perhaps? I hardly can wait for it...

A late Rose....

"Rosa"

GTS - Green Thumb Sunday

For today's motto I found this to be the perfect garden pic: roses and an apple tree full of juicy fruit, ready to pick and then hmmm........

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A Rose at the Garden Fence

Isn't this a lovely image - a rose at a garden fence - could be the beginning of a Rosamunde Pilcher story -

"Rosa"

Pink Bonbon...

Looks as if edible - needs only a little frosting... (actually it is edible if not sprayed - looks wonderful on a dessert or a cake or on salad or fruit soup...)

"Rosa"

A Beauty in Pink...

One of my favourite photo subjects again: roses

"Rosa"

GTS - Green Thumb Sunday

In June this year I took this photo - one of my favourites - now it's become my choice for today's GTS

"Hedge Rose"

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Unfolding - a Magical Moment...

"Rosa"

Another Lady Rose...in different Dress

Without words...

"Rosa"

Lady Rose...in Red

I don't know how many roses I photographed this year - I only know it were lots of them and I still cannot get enough...

"Rosa"

Green Thumb Sunday's - First Post

For the first post for Green Thumb Sunday I'll start with the photo I made the logo from. This is one of my favourite rose photos because it looks so wonderfully oldfashioned as if taken in a wonderful old English garden...



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A Rose in Orange...

Thou may shine in golden and orange
Thou may lift my senses with your fragrance
Thou may ever last in memories
of summer love until the end of time (pv)

"Rosa" (Rosaceae)
rose, Edelrose

La Rose - the Woman...

These roses remind me of the ongoing process of maturity of a woman:

from the bud of wonderful youth...

to the beauty of a teenager promising to become a mature woman...

then developing into a full grown beauty at the zenith of her life...

and finally into a woman in all her glory and the experience of a whole life...

and what is left of her are wonderful memories about her colour, her fragrance and her love...

"Rosa"