Pinks n Purples

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Thursday 28 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike

Despite the fact that we have very dirty rain here, as you can well see on the leaves, bringing back down the all the dust and pollen that we have in abundance in this region in early summer, the flowers themselves seen largely unaffected, and still perform well for the camera.

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Of all the roses, these are our most common. Often they have multiple swirls of flowers within a single head too – not something I’ve seen with the other colours.

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One of my favourite shots of late – a classic pink rose.

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But not all the beauty belongs to the rosebeds, although with five beds now, they are starting to take over! I won’t bore you with yet more images of our famous pink oleanders… however, their unopened buds are equally as pretty 🙂

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But back to my favourites…. weeds. Some of them have the most extraordinary flowers. Now I’m not talking sweet little meadow flowers. These are full one metre high tough old weeds, BUT, their flowers are remarkably lovely.

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