Close-ups of flowers

Well @pete and @Loofah having done this after 32 years in one school it always was amazing for the young people that I taught. I don't mean that I did this for 32 years but many years.

 

Tulipa "Queen of the Night"

 

Geum Scarlet Tempest.



Geum borsii.



Lavandula Regal Splendour.

 

@NigelJ Lovely photo. We planted out the same but never came out as such a brilliant colour as yours.

 

Isn't that greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)?

 

Thyme-leaved speedwell in my garden this afternoon.

 

Euphorbia with visitor.

 

Clematis Montana, flowers from a slightly different perspective.

 

Camassia with visitor

 

Just loving my apple blossom right now. For me, it's a good reason to walk to the end of the garden.

 

Damn this rain. But then again ......

 

@LunarSea I have a similar tulip that was originally Ballerina. Do you know the name of yours?

 

@pitter-patter All our tulips are my wife's department. She says our Ballerina are all pure orange. She thinks the bi-coloured ones were in a mixture of Lily-flowering tulips from Parkers.

 

Thanks, @LunarSea. It remains a mystery.