📷 19/03/2024
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Fritillaria Meleagris, also known as Snake's head Fritillary presumably because of the way the bud looks prior to opening. This one has just gone past that stage and is beginning to open.
I would try and get a shot of one of those buds but not sure if they will still be around - woke up this morning to about 3" of snow everywhere. More than we have had all winter......
Saturday three weeks ago, I was invited by two Flickr friends to visit the largest sunflower farm in Victoria, in the small town of Dunnstown, just on the outskirts of the provincial city of Ballarat, to photograph the flowers for a twilight session. Being in the Southern Hemisphere, I am in summer, going towards autumn and nearing the final few weeks of summer daylight savings time, so the sun doesn't set until around eight o'clock in the evening. Thus when we arrived at six, the evening was warm and we were faced with a wonderful undulating field of golden yellow sunflowers, basking in the sunshine beneath clear blue skies. It was like a great field of endless sunshine.
Laiken Britt’s picturesque sunflower farm was not only the first in the Moorabool Shire, but in Victoria, and remains the state’s largest, attracting thousands of people on weekends to the little town of Dunnstown whilst the flowers are in season. ‘Pick Your Own Sunflowers’ has been running for five years now, but this ‘sunflowers at sunset’ visit was my first. I hope it won’t be my last!
Schagen … Nederland
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Spring shots from the magnificent gardens of the National Trust's Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.
The Snake's-head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) is an unmistakeable plant: look for its chequered, purple, pink or even white, bell-like flowers, nodding on thin stems. It has narrow, grey-green leaves that appear at the base of the plant and occasionally up the stem.
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