Maltese Cross – Owlnature

This year everything is a little late, so also the summer flowers are at their prime only now in August.

Peony poppy. There is no summer without peony poppy flowers…

Iris hollandica or Dutch iris. Siberian iris and German iris flowers in July… and this year I have also Dutch iris flowers now in August! 🙂 They are grown from bulbs that I planted in spring this year. My first ones ever.

And there is no summer without annual mallow flowers…

Viper’s bugloss, a bit wild now – I planted the seeds last summer.

More cornflower flowers…

A busy friend.

And more schizanthus or butterfly flower or poor man’s orchid flowers…

Maltese cross or burning love, a perennial, flowering this year as well.

Tropaeolum majus or garden nasturtium or Indian cress flowering. The taste is good as well – a bit peppery. 🙂

And my first ever tropaeolum minus or dwarf nasturtium flowering.

And the Ibiza lizard lurking… 🙂

This summer I have common poppy flowers, too! My first ones ever.

I love all the colours… Another new favourite…

You tell me yours and I’ll tell you mine…

With the shadow of a peony poppy…

A nice skirt…? 🙂

-Leena

Pics I took between Saturday and today, in this blog post today… I have already so many pics that I’ll have to save the last peony pics and some poppies, too, for the next post, for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, hopefully… 🙂

Burning love… we have it here and there in our garden. 😉

Well, this flower has many other names, too: Maltese Cross, dusky salmon, Flower of Bristol, Jerusalem Cross, nonesuch… Whoa! 🙂

Getting there! – In style! Don’t rush m… us!

Maiden pink again. This time not pink, but dark red. I call this an endless battle, trying to capture the true colours of maiden pink with camera… And the flowers come in so many shades – the neon pink, deep pink, lighter pink, redder, very red… Just marvelous!

My maiden pinks got some new friends. And I don’t know who they are. 😀

This is getting a bit tricky. I planted some summer flower seed mix – I naturally don’t know what will grow, aaand there’s so many flowers of this kind growing there now that I don’t know what to think of this… I googled a bit, and I found viper’s bugloss, neidonkieli in Finnish, which somehow looks like this. I also planted some butterfly flower (perhoskukka in Finnish) seeds somewhere (here?), but this doesn’t actually look like it. Have I forgotten that I planted something like viper’s bugloss, too…? – Completely possible. 😀

Oh, nice flowers! 🙂

“Not interested, actually, you know…” :

“Me neither.” :

Some bellflowers. Especially violet bellflowers we have here and there in our garden – the previous owners of this house got wild with them, too. 🙂 And I don’t know what bellflowers these actually are, but they are always lovely.

And the maiden pinks and their friends now have a purple cornflower amongst them since yesterday – this definitely has grown from the seed mix…

-Leena

Tag: Maltese Cross

Summer flowers in August

Interesting flowers