Close-ups of flowers

Autumn Hawkbit, found on my drive.

 

Some blooms of my three Mirabilis Jalapa plants, grew a few from seed last year and kept the corms overwinter nice and dry and now have flowered about one and half month early which is clearly worth doing.

They were super easy to germinate but took a while to flower. They remind me of my childhood in Greece where they are used quite a lot and tend to survive in the ground and come back next year.

 

Raspberry.

 

Lantana

Ivy leaf pelargonium Decora Stellena


Ivy leaf pelargonium Viletta Lilac

 

Glossy Abelia

 

Creeping Woodsorrel


But can anyone identify this please. The flower size is slightly larger than the Creeping Woodsorrel (7mm instead of 5mm)

 

Another sort of oxalis, I think, @RowlandsCastle . Could be Oxalis articulata, which grows all over the place in Ireland as a garden escape.

 

Nigella

 

Miss Mellish meets Lucifer





Cosmos

 

Nigella - I found these growing along a footpath and collected some seed. This is the first flower to emerge.


A fancy Echinacea I bought last year, which has survived the winter planted out in the garden

 

Just took a walk down the garden to find the new Myrtle I planted this year has finally started opening its flower buds. I've been watching those buds for weeks!

 

Wife planted some Zinnia seeds, of varying colours. This is one of the unusual ones.

 

Rose, out of reach, but still attainable by camera.

 

Heart's ease

 

Daucus carota. I'd love to know why a lot of the flower heads - particularly later in the season - have a red central flower...