Today's Flowers #117 Clematis tangutica

Clematis tangutica is grown as much for its beautiful seed heads as for its pretty lantern shaped flowers. Our plant has yellow flowers and I believe there is an orange version. I'd love to see yellow and orange growing together! One day, maybe, I'll find an orange one.

Just a few weeks ago our tangutica was a mass of yellow bells. In this photograph the flower is just beginning to open.

Now there are no flowers but a mass of feathery seed heads nodding in the sun.

I almost expect a little face to look up and smile shyly!

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Today's Flowers #51

Ripening seed heads of Nigella damascena (Love-in-a-mist) This is an annual that self-seeds.


These heads are turning brown, soon to release their seeds. The pods are often cut and used in flower arrangements.


Close-up of a seed pod. If you shake the pod you can hear the seeds rattling inside.

Scented-leaf geranium: the flowers are usually quite insignificant as the plants are prized for the scent from their leaves. This one has an orange scent.

I think the flowers are worthy of notice . . .

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