So this is a greatly enlarged image of a favourite woodland flower. But can you tell what it is?
I love the way the inner petals curl back, they almost look like spools of cotton and the dark pink adds depth and contrast.
It may be quite difficult to identify so I will give you a clue...
These flowers generally appear through the woodland floor before the leaves, curling upwards on spindly stems.
Please leave a comment if you think you know what it is. I will reveal the answer tomorrow.
I had intended to take a break from flowers tonight and I was going to move onto some of the architectural features of Bodnant Gardens but in the end I plumped for these three different varieties of rose. The first is Pompon de Paris and the last one is Rosa "zigeunerknabe".
Recently I was asked what my favourite flower was and my answer almost without hesitation was the rose and so I was obviously going to share some rose pictures from my day at Bodnant. Of course Rose covers a huge range of flowers, colours, shapes, sizes and of course fragrances. There is so much to love about a rose and hopefully you will love the ones I have chosen for you today.
If you look closely at the tight rosebud in the second image you will see the texture of the new petals and a fine covering of delicate hairs which perhaps you wouldn't expect to see. It just goes to show that it is always worth taking a closer look at things as there is very often much more going on than you would normally see.
