Category Archives: Flower Friday
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Flower Friday ~ Last peach blossoms
4Friday 06 May, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Double Pink
5Friday 22 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ This morning’s roses
15Friday 15 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken an hour ago, here are some of the rose beds. With spring providing cool nights, occasional rain and sunny …
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Flower Friday ~ Blossom; never enough
4Friday 01 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Mountain colours
12Friday 25 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here in the West Taurus mountains, we have plenty to roam, with pine forested peaks as far as the eye can …
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Flower Friday ~ Plum tree blossom
5Friday 18 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here are some not-so-close-up images of the plum trees which are in full blossom right now. At night it actually …
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Flower Friday ~ More Apricot Blossom
4Friday 11 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Wild beauty
6Friday 04 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ First Apricot
11Friday 26 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken just a few minutes ago… This is the very first of the beautiful flowers that blossom on the apricot …
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Flower Friday ~ Spring has arrived
9Friday 19 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
(courtesy of a good friend who visiting our farm)
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Flower Friday ~ Sunflower
12Friday 22 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in summer 2015, in the endless Sunflower fields of the northern Turkish province of Edirne, which is in Eastern …
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Flower Friday ~ Winter Grass
4Friday 15 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Flags & Flowers
Leave a commentFriday 08 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Summer colours
17Friday 01 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Bit later than normally posted, but here is my Friday floral offering. For many of us, we are now ‘mid-winter’; …
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Flower Friday Pot
5Friday 18 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Bitola Balcony
3Friday 11 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How about this for a few flowers on your balcony? Taken in the middle of summer in the southern border …
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Flower Friday ~ Ok, it’s another White Hibiscus
5Friday 04 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Yellow Trumpets (Burgmasia)
5Friday 27 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Monster pink beauty!
13Friday 20 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
As per usual for me, I have no idea what this is 🙂 It looks like a whopping big rose, …
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Flower Friday ~ Roses are red…
2Friday 13 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Twins
Leave a commentFriday 06 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Another White Hibiscus
1Friday 30 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Twin Reds
Leave a commentFriday 23 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Blue (something)…
20Friday 16 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Not sure on this one. At first I thought it looked like a blue hydrangea, but like a tiny version. Any …
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Flower Friday ~ Purple strikes again
5Friday 09 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This one was taken in the UK a long time ago. Not sure what it is, but the flowers so …
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Flower Friday ~ Bluebell
2Friday 02 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Simple elegance The humble Bluebell is one of nature’s best examples. Often seen as a mass of blue like a …
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Flower Friday ~ Natural Yellow
Leave a commentFriday 25 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Balcony flowers!
1Friday 18 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Now THAT’S what I call balcony flowers! Perfect shade, courtesy of Mother Nature; with the help of some rather keep …
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Flower Friday ~ Aubergine
Leave a commentFriday 11 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Sorry, but Eggplant really isn’t a pretty name. So these are Aubergine flowers. Much nicer, eh? . .
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Flower Friday ~ Splash of colour
Leave a commentFriday 04 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the otherwise drab coloured world of the the Turkish summer, with mostly varying shades of brown, a little splash of …
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Flower Friday ~ Soft red rose
1Friday 28 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This rose is such a soft and gentle shade of red, don’t you think? .
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Flower Friday ~ Jujube Flowers
3Friday 21 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Cute to look at, but that’s as far as I’ll go… . . Remember, the Jujube tree has huge evil …
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Flower Friday ~ Gazania of the day
5Friday 14 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This gazania has a lovely mixture of colours. It looks like it has been hand painted! . .
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Flower Friday ~ Mysterious shrub
8Friday 07 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This small shrub is an interesting one. In winter it literally looks like a dead twig; in fact, next to …
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Flower Friday ~ Pink success
8Friday 31 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of my favourites…. I lost a few during transplant this spring from established cuttings from two years ago, but …
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Flower Friday ~ Half closed
3Friday 24 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This pretty little gazania was always like this. It seemed healthy enough, but the petals were always half closed. Strange, …
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Flower Friday ~ Passion weed?
5Friday 17 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Passion Flower Here it grows like a weed. It gets everywhere… It spreads under the surface… It gets into the trees …
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Flower Friday ~ Love the colours
3Friday 10 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. We have a number of different coloured Gazania’s, but this one is a personal favourite. The soft purple against …
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Flower Friday ~ Two-tone
3Friday 03 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. On a bush that sports both these pink/red flowers AND blue/mauve, we are treated to new flowers on a …
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Flower Friday ~ Elegance
6Friday 26 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Sheer elegance from Mother Nature .
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Flower Friday ~ Last of the Periwinkle
4Friday 19 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Summer is here, and whilst the areas of Periwinkle we have seem to survive ok with just a weekly …
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Flower Friday ~ House Plant?
9Friday 12 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Flower Friday ~ Streets of Syros
14Friday 05 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. So it’s Friday again, and time to dig out another flowery treat. The Greek island of Syros was a …
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Flower Friday ~ Delicate in Pink
Leave a commentFriday 29 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This flower belongs to one of a few bushes we have in the ‘house garden’, but when just singled out …
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Flower Friday ~ Red is the colour
9Friday 22 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Slowly but surely, the garden is becoming more brown by the day as summer approaches, and the ground hardens to …
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Flower Friday ~ The Entrance
3Friday 15 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A simple, yet effective combination of flowers against paintwork. Nothing fancy; just peaceful and welcoming. Naxos, Cyclades, Greece, early September …
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Flower Friday ~ Thistle weed
3Friday 08 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A simple thistle weed growing among one of the veg areas over winter .
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Flower Friday ~ Pear Tree
11Friday 01 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Pear blossom about to open. .
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Flower Friday ~ Rosemary
7Friday 24 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. Simple beauty of the Rosemary bush. .
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Flower Friday ~ Little trumpets
6Friday 17 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Taken back in the UK quite a few years ago, these bizarre flowers are rather pretty, even if I don’t …
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