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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Sparaxis In Red And Yellow

Get your yellow on!

I took this yesterday (Saturday in the northern hemisphere) when the sun came out for a few precious minutes. I love the contrast of the bright colors of the petals of this Sparaxis, also known by its common name Harlequin Flower, against the brown earth.

Sparaxis comes in many colors, another of which you can see here. They propagate easily by dropping bulblets that form in the stems when they die back, and then pop up everywhere in my yard in early Spring - even in the lawn.

Photographers are posting photos featuring yellow over on Monday Mellow Yellows.

Friday, March 20, 2015

Yellow

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The shrub lives behind a thicket of blackberry canes, a large Rhododendron, a Japanese maple, and many low-growing bulbs and violets.

Sometimes I almost forget that it's there. This spring it stretched its branches out beyond the rest of the tangle of flora and proceeded to bloom like never before.

Deep yellow blooms that pop against the background of green. I'm embarrassed to admit that I've forgotten its name.

[Ed note: I found an earlier post of this flowering shrub and now have the name - Kerria Japonica, 'Pleniflora'.]

Monday, January 19, 2015

Yellow Phalaenopsis Orchid

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I find orchid flowers difficult to photograph. It's not the taking of the picture that's hard, it's that orchid flowers, as do other flowers such as bulbs, iris, etc., have so many nuances of color and iridescence; what I see with my eyes often does not come out in a photograph.

Anyway, I put this beautiful subject against a kitchen cupboard that was suffused with morning sunlight and took about 30 photos.