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Kerria Japonica...

Monday 20th June 2011

Macro Monday

I photographed the Kerria Japonica which grows by the fence in my mum's back garden in late Spring.


In the spring this part of mum's garden is a riot of colour...  with the Kerria Japonica, the lovely pink Camelia, the two japanese azaleas which are just starting to flower when these photographs were taken and the lovely hellebore towards the front of the border...


The Kerria Japonica is starting run riot in its spot and will need to be pruned...  I usually do this when it has stopped flowering for the season...  no point in losing any of these glorious blooms...  I thin out old stems after it finishes flowering for the season...


The Kerria Japonica is a deciduous shrub with very showy yellow flowers...  


a blaze of sunshine in bloom...


Mum grows hers in partial shade, in well drained soil, beside the fence...


It is a graceful shrub with beautiful arching green stems and pretty serrated edged dainty green foliage...


This one has the lovely double blossoms in buttercup yellow...  I think there are single varieties around...


The blossoms look like little yellow pompoms...


The petals start to fade to a pretty buttermilk yellow as the blossom ages...  really beautiful...


This gorgeous shrub flowers from mid- to late- Spring...


This particular plant was given to mum as a young plant taken off an established plant in her friend Betty Smethurst's garden, when she visited her many years ago, in Cumbria...  Betty passed away a few years after this and when we look at the Kerria Japonica in full bloom we think of Betty's sunny personality and mum's wonderful lifelong friendship with her...


8 comments:

Beautiful yellow color and lovely shallow DoF.

 

what a colorful corner of the world. And so nice macro shots. :)

 

BREATHTAKING...such a beautiful area your mother has produces with all the golden flowers. With all the other colors mixed in with these, it must be such a piece of eye candy!!!

Macro Crystals is my link for Monday. I do hope to see you visit if you have time.

Happy day to you.

 

So pretty, Nikki! Now I am wishing the Kerria Japonica that we planted here many years ago had survived our cold winters!

 

Such beautiful flower photos!

 

What a beautuful remembrance from a friend. Just beautiful! It made my day brighter :)

Thanks for visiting me.

 

Beautiful display of flowers .. and remembering!

 

Oh, my, would I love to have these in my yard! These are beautiful pictures, and your captures are fabulous. Such nice work this week. Hope you have lots of time ahead to enjoy all of this color. Genie

 

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